day four of seeing if the baby will fall asleep if i put him in his bassinet drowsy but awake (in 20 minutes; not letting him fully cry for longer than it would take to finish a quick task, like washing hands) day two was a success and i was far too proud BUT he hasn’t cried

what if they made a breast pump that didn’t make women want to run it over with a car

little man fell off his _0.5 percentile_ growth curve and we are getting admitted to the hospital to figure out what’s up. please keep us in your thoughts and prayers!

so uh, if the power goes out while your dishwasher is running… what exactly happens?

favorite books i read this year were two very different quartets: - the neapolitan novels by elena ferrante - terra ignota by ada palmer

i’m intimidated by the 8oz dr brown bottles. can we go back to the lil 2oz-ers?

getting your baby fitted for a pavlik harness is not the ideal way to discover they’re terrified of the sound of velcro

my son has been in his crib for two days and already i’ve been upset that i can’t climb into it with him like five or six times. curse you 50lb weight limit

motherhood is the ultimate becoming important at work

yeah but also Andrea Fisher did get my son a 0th birthday cake the day he was born

i have epilepsy and this was such a good description of the experience i had to stop reading because it felt too real (although i do get the stereotypical fall to the ground type)

this moltbook stuff fees very ted chiang "lifecycle of software objects" but less cute

marriage is when in order to get everything done before the baby’s bedtime your husband feeds you a burger in the shower

coldest take ever: having a sick baby sucks

scholarly fanfiction, call it arXiv of our own

i feel like being on mat leave from my software eng job during this explosion in AI coding is like speedrunning the "if you take a few years off to raise your children you'll need to catch up on new technologies" issue