

Below Deck: Newborn Edition
Your baby has a very specific vision for their space, and unfortunately the bassinet you lovingly assembled while eight months pregnant is not aligning with it. That bassinet may be a perfect, standards-aligned safe sleep space, but your newborn does not like It. This tiny person just spent nine months living in the coziest little Hobbit hole imaginable, tucked tightly into warmth and constant sound and gentle movement, never more than a fraction of an inch away from a reassu


Mom is Justin Timberlake. But Dad is still *NSYNC.
If pregnancy were a boy band, let's be honest: Mom is Justin Timberlake. She's doing the vocals and the choreography and the costume changes AND hitting every note while also growing an entire human from scratch. Dad? Dad is giving solid Chris Kirkpatrick energy. Sure, he's there and he is totally part of the group, but if someone put you on the spot and said "Quick, name all 5 members of *NSYNC," you'd probably get to him fourth or fifth. (Sorry, Chris.) And yes, Mom is doin


To Bank or Not to Bank: The Cord Blood Question
When you're pregnant, you get hit with a million decisions. It's basically a nine month masterclass in decision fatigue. You're choosing a provider, a birth plan, a car seat and then someone asks if you're planning to bank your baby's cord blood. And you're like "I'm sorry, what now?" Suddenly you’re expected to have an opinion on something you didn’t even know existed a few months ago. Let's break it down. What is cord blood? After baby is born, there is blood remaining in t



