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Red peeling baby ankles next to organic infant socks

The Truth About Organic Infant Socks (and Peeling Ankles)

I was sitting right on the cracked linoleum of my laundry room floor, holding a tiny, sweaty polyester sock in one hand and staring at my six-month-old's ankles in sheer panic. Beau, my oldest, was happily gnawing on a plastic...

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Why That Freezer Teether Ring Is Actually Making Your Baby Cry

It was three in the morning in the middle of a Chicago February. The kind of bitter cold that seeps right through the windowpanes and makes the old apartment radiator hiss like an angry cat. My toddler was cutting his...

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Baby chewing on a chilled silicone teether while sitting in a high chair

Why That Ice-Solid Teething Toy Myth Needs to Die Immediately

It's 3 AM and you're staring into the abyss of your freezer. Next to the ancient bag of edamame and the breastmilk stash you're too paranoid to throw away, there's a plastic ring shaped like a starfish. It's frozen completely...

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Tired mom folding a stack of soft organic cotton baby rompers on a messy bed.

What I Wish I Knew About Knit Rompers Before Baby Number Three

Dear Jess from six months ago. You're currently standing in the middle of Target, eight months pregnant with your third baby, holding a mustard yellow acrylic one-piece and crying into your iced coffee. Your ankles are swollen to the size...

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Toddler boy struggling to climb in long khaki shorts

Why toddler boy khaki shorts are a pediatric nightmare

The biggest lie the childrenswear industry ever sold us is that a two-year-old boy needs to dress like a miniature golf pro. You see it in every catalog. A tiny guy standing there in a polo shirt and rigid, flat-front...

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Baby sleeping safely with a breathable organic cotton toy blanket

The Truth About the Toy Blanket (And Why Your Baby Needs One)

My older cousin stared at the graying, spit-up-stained square of muslin clutched in my toddler's fist and let out a long, theatrical sigh. We were at a family dinner, and she felt the need to inform me that letting my...

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Dear Past Priya: The Truth About Bamboo Bassinet Sheets

It's 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in late January. The radiator in our Chicago apartment is clanking like a dying engine. You're standing over the bedside sleeper, holding a screaming, shivering infant who just engineered a blowout of catastrophic proportions....

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A messy nursery chair with folded baby clothes and a half drank cup of coffee

Why japan kidswear completely ruined me for normal baby clothes

When I was pregnant with Leo, I made the mistake of crowdsourcing clothing advice. My mother-in-law cornered me in a Target aisle to aggressively whisper that I should exclusively buy 12-month sizes for my unborn infant and just roll the...

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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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