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No Judgment Zone: Pain Management, Feeding Method, and Other Choices People Love to Question
The opinions never come from strangers. They come from family, from friends, from people in your entourage, and they arrive attached to...
I Swear, He’s Manipulating Me
At three in the morning, after the fifteenth careful transfer to the crib, it feels like the only explanation. Manipulation takes planning...
What people feed the postpartum body
Yorkshire, mainland China, Lebanon: the traditions agree on almost nothing except that cold food is suspect, and that a body which just...
< A Little While Later >
Most sibling advice covers the first day, the gift from the baby, the special outing. Less gets said about day four, when...
The Opinions
A parent says they are going to let the baby cry it out and the opinion rises before they have finished the...
The Water Bottle
Someone who loves you will hand you the enormous bottle with the time markers down the side and tell you your milk...
Starting Solids
Purees in 1987, baby-led weaning delivered like a religious conversion, the allergen protocol arriving unprompted in the group chat at 9pm. Nobody...
Why Your Baby Won’t Sleep
They spent their entire existence somewhere warm and dark with no edges, and the first thing we ask is that they lie...
Nobody Asks The Other Parent How They Are
Every visitor has the same script. How is mama doing, is she sleeping, can I hold the baby. Meanwhile the other parent...
How To Visit A Baby
Ask a new parent what they need and you will get "nothing, we're fine." So don't ask. Make the bed, put the...