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Let me start with a confession that'll probably make you feel better about your own parenting: I once fell asleep standing up while trying to get my 8-month-old to sleep. Literally just... dozed off on my feet next to his crib at 2 AM. When I woke up
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Look, I'm gonna be real with you for a second. When my first kid was 8 months old and still waking up every 2 hours like some kind of tiny, adorable vampire, I was ready to try literally anything. And I mean anything. I once found myself at
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Why Perfect Parents Raise Anxious Kids (And How I Learned to Stop Trying) Last Tuesday, my 6-year-old had a complete meltdown in Target because I wouldn't buy him a $40 Pokémon card. I'm talking full-on tantrum—tears, screaming, the works. While he's melting down
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Why Your Twins Will Never Sleep Like Instagram Says They Should Let me start with something that might shock you: those perfectly synchronized twin sleeping photos you see on social media? They're either staged or the parents are straight-up lying. I'm Maya, and eighteen months ago
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The Truth About Baby "Essentials": What You Actually Need vs. Marketing Hype Let me tell you about the time I spent three hours researching the "perfect" diaper caddy at 2 AM while eight months pregnant. I read 47 reviews, compared dimensions, and agonized over color schemes.
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Why One Day Isn't Enough (And How We Can Do Better for Women Entrepreneurs) Grab your coffee—we need to talk. Last Tuesday, I was sitting in my favorite local coffee shop (owned by this amazing woman named Sarah who makes the most ridiculous lavender oat milk lattes)
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Why I Quit the Potty Training Olympics (And You Should Too) Picture this: You're standing in Target's diaper aisle, calculator app open, doing mental math on how much money you've literally flushed down the toilet on diapers. Your toddler is singing the Bluey theme
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Your Child Isn't Broken—The Sleep Method Is Three years. That's how long I spent convinced I was failing as a mother because my daughter wouldn't sleep. I remember standing in Target at 2 AM (because when else do you shop with a non-sleeping
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The 10-Month Sleep Regression Hit Different (And Why That's Actually Normal) Picture this: It's 2:47 AM, and you're standing in your baby's nursery wondering if you accidentally broke your child's sleep forever. Sound familiar? Let me tell you something
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Sleep Regressions: The Brutal Truth Nobody Tells You Picture this: It's 3 AM, you're holding a screaming baby who was sleeping through the night just last week, and you're googling "why does my baby suddenly hate sleep" with one hand while questioning
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The 12-Month Sleep Reality Check: Why Your Baby's Sleep Schedule Isn't "Broken" So your little one just hit the big 1-0... no wait, I mean 1-2 (months, not years – though some days it feels like decades, right?). And suddenly their sleep has gone completely
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Your Baby's Wake Windows: Stop Watching the Clock, Start Reading the Room Picture this: It's 2:47 PM and you're staring at your phone calculator like it holds the secrets to the universe. "If she woke up at 1:15, and her wake
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Your 8-Month-Old's Sleep Just Went Haywire? Here's Why (And What Actually Works) Let me guess. Your baby was finally sleeping through the night, and then—BAM—suddenly they're up every two hours like a newborn again. Or maybe naps turned into 20-minute disasters that
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The 7-Month Sleep Reality Check No One Talks About Okay, let me just start by saying this: if you're reading this at 2 AM while your 7-month-old is practicing their newfound crawling skills in their crib instead of sleeping... I see you. I've been there. Actually,
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Why I Threw Out the Sleep Schedule (And What Worked Instead) Let me paint you a picture. It's 3 AM, I'm standing in my kitchen in yesterday's clothes, bouncing my 5-month-old Emma while googling "why won't my baby sleep" for
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The 2-Month Sleep Reality Check Nobody Prepared You For Let me guess—you're reading this at 2:47 AM while your 2-month-old finally fell asleep after what felt like the longest bedtime routine known to humanity. Or maybe you're here during that precious afternoon nap window,