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I was sitting in the nursery rocking chair at three in the morning with a baby who had completely saturated his third onesie of the night with pure drool. My oldest son—who's basically the walking, talking cautionary tale for every...

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday when I woke up to a sound I can only describe as a hyperactive beaver trapped in the nursery. I stumbled in, entirely blind, and found Maya standing in her cot, aggressively gnawing...

It was 3:14 PM on a Tuesday, raining sideways, and I was wearing those black maternity leggings that had a suspicious yogurt stain on the knee from three days prior. Maya was about five and a half months old, sitting...

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was wearing a Dartmouth sweatshirt from 2008 that had a crusty white stain on the shoulder that I was actively choosing to ignore. Leo was exactly eleven weeks old. And he...

I was standing over a pot of rolling boiling water at three in the morning, watching a twenty-dollar piece of imported French rubber slowly melt into a toxic puddle on my stove. My firstborn was screaming in the next room,...