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What If You Could Understand Your Baby’s Cries

One of the hardest parts of parenting is figuring out what your baby needs when they cry. Parents often run through a long mental checklist—Are they hungry? Tired? Uncomfortable?—and then rely on t...

When Sleep Became My “Healthy Obsession” (And Why I Want That for Other Moms)

Before I became a mom, I thought I understood stress and anxiety. Or at least my own. I’d always been a planner, doing everything I could to organize and control my life. But then we brought our ba...

Baylee Relf on Clean Beauty, Motherhood, and the Power of Consistency

Founder. Mom of four. Skincare enthusiast. Baylee Relf built DIME on the belief that clean products can deliver real results—and that motherhood doesn’t mean putting yourself last. We chatted with ...

How I Found My Mom People When Everything Felt Uncertain

It was six months into the pandemic when I found out I was expecting—and absolutely nothing in life felt certain. The world was flipped upside down, and my partner, Brandon, and I were still reelin...

5 Parenting Resource Drains to Say No To This Fall and Maybe Always?

It’s back to school season, and that means it’s also back to guilt for many parents. Guilt that we’re not showing up at enough stuff for our kids, that we can’t hand-decorate their birthday cupcake...

Permission Granted: The New Rules of Modern Motherhood 

As a mom and start-up founder building tech to reduce the mental load of modern parenting, I have been thinking a lot about expectations – how did the expectations for modern parenting (and especia...

I Thought I Had Pregnancy Insurance Figured Out—Until I Got My First Bill 

When I found out I was pregnant with my first baby, I felt like I had my ducks in a row. I had good health insurance through my job, I’d chosen an in-network OB-GYN, and I’d even called my insuranc...

Why I Didn’t Have a Baby Shower 

When I got pregnant with my daughter, there was a lot I didn’t know. But one thing I knew for sure, without question, was that I wasn’t having a baby shower. I’m not particularly religious, bu...

Surrogacy Wasn’t My Plan—It Was My Answer

My path to motherhood was anything but simple. It was years of trying, grieving, hoping, and starting over—until I finally let go of the ideas I’d been clinging to for so long about what becoming a...

What I Expected vs. What It Was: The First Weeks of Fatherhood & Newborn Life

When facing a change in my life such as moving cities, getting married or bringing home a new puppy, I try not to get too high or too low — I stay as pragmatic as possible, and prepare the best I c...