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Twin baby girls wearing vintage style dresses in a pram

Dear Past Tom: The Truth About Vintage Style Infant Dresses

Dear Tom of six months ago. It's 3 AM, and you're currently staring at your phone in the dark, bidding forty quid on a pair of authentic 1950s smocked baby gowns on eBay. Stop it immediately. Put the phone down,...

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Frustrated mom holding up a tiny stiff antique baby gown in a laundry room

The Hard Truth About Buying Authentic Vintage Newborn Dresses

I'm currently staring at a yellowed, lace-covered, pintucked monstrosity hanging on the back of my laundry room door. It's my great-aunt's baptism gown from 1942, and my mother just drove it three hours across Texas in a garment bag like...

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A realistic pile of mostly clean baby girl clothes on a nursery floor

The brutally honest guide to sorting out vetement bebe fille

I was standing in the dark holding a tiny, poop-covered denim jacket. It was week two of motherhood. Maya was screaming, I was crying, and I couldn't figure out how to unbutton three microscopic metal snaps while keeping her flailing...

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Marcus holding an organic cotton onesie in a minimalist Swiss baby store.

Why Fribourg Baby Stores Completely Ruined American Shopping For Me

We're standing on the freezing cobblestones outside the train station in the Canton of Fribourg, the airline has lost all three of our checked bags, and my 11-month-old is wearing a spit-up stained pajama top that smells heavily of expired...

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Pregnant mom struggling with baby knitting patterns on the couch

The strickanleitung baby delusion and what I got totally wrong

It was 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in November 2017, and I was sitting on my living room rug in my husband's stained UCLA hoodie, crying over a bamboo knitting needle. I was seven months pregnant with Leo, my ankles...

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Sarah sitting on the floor holding a messy ball of yarn next to a half-finished baby sweater

That Time Stricken für Babys Made Me Cry Into My Cold Coffee

I was sitting on the floor of our living room in late November, wearing a pair of maternity leggings that had definitively given up on life around the thighs, surrounded by three balls of what the label aggressively called "ethereal...

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A crawling baby wearing ribbed organic cotton bottoms on a living room rug.

What I Got Entirely Wrong About Dressing A Human In Baby Pants

There I was at three in the morning, holding a tiny pair of denim jeans with a functional metal zipper, trying to thread the flailing legs of a screaming three-week-old into them. It was my first month of motherhood. I...

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Tired dad holding a green silicone baby bib covered in sweet potato puree.

A Letter to My Past Self About the Great Baby Bib Migration

Hey past Marcus. It's currently November, which means you're standing in the kitchen at 2 AM, holding a cloth that smells vaguely of sour milk, trying to calculate if it's physically possible for a five-month-old to output more fluid than...

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A tired dad staring analytically at an organic cotton baby play mat on the floor

Debugging Tummy Time: What You Actually Need From A Baby Mat

There's this deeply embedded cultural myth that to successfully raise a functional human infant, you must provide them with a floor space that looks and sounds exactly like a Las Vegas casino. When Leo was about two months old, I...

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