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A tired father inspecting a seemingly dry baby nappy in the middle of the night.

The real signs of dehydration in babies (and other 3am panics)

The first time one of the twins caught a proper stomach bug, I received three distinct pieces of medical advice within a single afternoon. My mother-in-law suggested I give them a bottle of warm tap water because "it worked for...

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A stressed father holding two toddlers while looking at a water leak on the ceiling.

What the Katrina babies taught me about parenting in a crisis

It was a wet Tuesday afternoon in November when the kitchen ceiling began to ominously bow, creating a distended, watery underbelly right above the toaster. A pipe had burst somewhere in the floorboards above, and as I desperately tried to...

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The real truth about ivf babies disadvantages and infant health

I'm staring at a glowing phone screen at 4:13 a.m. while one of my two-year-old twin daughters uses my left kidney as a trampoline. Years ago, long before these tiny terrors existed, I was staring at the exact same screen...

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My 3 AM Deep Dive Into the Island Boy Baby TikTok Drama

My phone brightness was turned down to one percent, but it still felt like staring into the sun. It was 3:17 AM. My 11-month-old son was asleep on my chest, entirely dead weight, snoring faintly with his mouth hanging open....

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When The Baby Sister Strikes Back: A Dad's Guide to Sibling Survival

When we first found out we were having twins, which is essentially the experience of introducing a new baby to another baby who's exactly the same age and equally furious about it, the unsolicited advice began rolling in like fog...

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A tired mom trying to give liquid vitamin D drops to a squirmy baby in a cotton bodysuit.

The Real Deal on Vitamin D for Babies (And Why It's So Messy)

The coconut oil carrier fluid was running all the way down my left elbow, pooling in the crook of my arm, and dripping onto the dog’s head. It was 2:14 AM. My oldest, Jackson, was exactly three weeks old, screaming...

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Panic vs reality: exactly when do babies start to talk anyway

I was sitting on the beige rug in my living room, aggressively holding a wooden block in front of my ten-month-old's face, enunciating the word block like I was teaching a hostage how to defuse a bomb. He just stared...

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Why Are Babies So Cute? A Dad's Guide to Infant Hardware

My mom visited us in Portland last week and confidently announced that infants are adorable so we don't accidentally leave them in the woods when they haven't slept in three days. The very next morning, my lead developer coworker told...

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What is Jaundice in Babies? Surviving the Tiny Satsuma Phase

It was day three with the twins, and I was standing by our bedroom window in the bleak gray wash of a London November afternoon, holding Florence up to the light like a counterfeit twenty-pound note. She was asleep, completely...

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