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Portland dad holding a baby back rib next to a messy 11-month-old at a summer BBQ

Troubleshooting BBQ: Baby Back Ribs vs Spare Ribs for Babies

There we were in our backyard, forty-five minutes into a rare sunny Portland afternoon, when I casually handed my 11-month-old son, Leo, a massive, sauce-drenched spare rib. In my sleep-deprived brain, this seemed like a brilliant Baby-Led Weaning victory. I...

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Thermal Throttling: Why We Finally Switched to a Bamboo Baby Blanket

It was 2:14 AM during that ridiculous heat dome we had in Portland last July, and the Nanit camera monitor was basically glowing red. The nursery temperature was hovering at 78 degrees despite the window AC unit aggressively coughing in...

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A wrinkled bamboo sheet stretched tight over a small mattress next to a laundry basket.

Why I Finally Ditched Cotton for Bamboo Mini Crib Sheets

There I was in a La Quinta Inn somewhere outside of Waco, wrestling a sandpaper-stiff cotton sheet over a travel mattress at two in the morning while my oldest, Tucker, screamed like he was being exorcised. Every time I got...

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A messy crib mattress featuring a soft, rumpled bamboo toddler blanket draped over the edge.

Dear Past Me: The Bamboo Toddler Blanket Is Actually Worth It

Dear Jess of six months ago. You're currently sitting on the floor of the nursery at 2:14 AM, using your teeth to try and unjam a zipper on a fleece sleep sack that somehow got stuck on a blowout-ruined diaper...

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Dear Priya: The ugly truth about those bamboo childrens plates

Dear Priya from six months ago. You're currently scraping dried avocado out of the grooves of our dining room floor with a butter knife. Your son is screaming because his water is too wet. You're exhausted. I know you think...

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The 11-month beta test of our bamboo crib blanket

3:14 AM. The Nanit camera app says the nursery is exactly 69.4 degrees, but when I reach into the bassinet, my daughter's neck feels like a laptop running too many Chrome tabs. She's sticky. She's thrashing. She's three months old...

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I Thought $35 Bamboo Pajamas Were a Scam (I Was Wrong)

It’s 3:14 AM in mid-July. My firstborn, Jackson—who I love dearly but remains my walking, talking cautionary tale for all things parenting—is screaming his lungs out. He’s wearing one of those rigid, aggressively adorable cotton zip-ups my aunt bought him....

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The brutal truth about picking a safe baby blanket pattern

My mother-in-law was so proud of the mint green monstrosity she pulled out of her floral gift bag at my baby shower. It had tassels. It had three-dimensional pom-poms. It had a crochet baby blanket pattern with holes large enough...

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Surviving the Night Sweats: A Dad’s Guide to Bamboo Blankets

It was 2:14 AM in the middle of a freak Portland August heatwave, and the Nanit camera monitor above the crib was glowing with a red 78-degree warning. My son, who was about eight weeks old at the time, was...

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