Why navigating baby shower chair rentals nearly broke my spirit
It was pouring with rain, naturally, because this is London, and I was wedged firmly between our Victorian front doorframe and a fifty-seven-inch-tall wicker peacock chair. My wife, Sarah, who was approximately eight hundred months pregnant with the twins at...
Real Talk About Baby Shower Captions and Social Media Etiquette
My mom told me to put my phone in a kitchen drawer and not post a single photo of my first pregnancy celebration because "the internet is full of weirdos." My Gen-Z cousin immediately grabbed my phone out of my...
How I Debugged The Spectacular Chaos Of Our Baby Shower Candy
I was staring at a five-pound bag of bright blue gummy pacifiers on our dining table when I realized my wife and I had completely lost our minds. We were exactly three weeks out from the party, and I was...
What To Write In A Baby Shower Book (A Letter To My Stressed Self)
Dear Sarah from six months ago, I know exactly where you're right now. You're standing in Aisle 4 of the Target on Route 9, wearing those black Lululemon leggings with the crusty strawberry yogurt stain on the left knee that...
Troubleshooting Baby Quilts: Safety, Sleep, and Free Patterns
Three days after we brought our son home from the hospital, my wife’s great-aunt mailed us a massive, handmade patchwork blanket that weighed roughly the same as a cinderblock, accompanied by a card instructing us to "wrap him up tight...
Why I Finally Unboxed the Fancy Cashmere Baby Blanket
It was 2:14 AM during that massive Texas freeze a few years back, and I could literally see my breath in my oldest son Caleb’s nursery. The power had been out for six hours. I was standing over his bassinet...
Can Your Baby Sleep With a Pacifier? The Unfiltered Truth
Before my oldest was even three days old, three different women stood in my kitchen and gave me completely contradictory advice about putting a piece of silicone in my kid's mouth. My grandma, bless her heart, told me to dip...
Can Your Baby Safely Sleep With a Pacifier? Let's Talk About It
It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was staring at the grainy green screen of my video monitor like I was watching a bomb about to detonate. My oldest son, Wyatt, was three weeks old. He was fast...
The Honest Truth About Letting Your Baby Sleep With a Pacifier
It's three in the morning and I'm staring at the grainy green glow of the baby monitor. The pacifier is currently dangling from my son's bottom lip by a fraction of a millimeter. I hold my breath. It drops. It...