Dear past me: The kimono baby phase will save your sanity
It's 3:14 in the morning. The radiator in our Chicago apartment is making that threatening hissing noise, the wind is rattling the bedroom window, and you're crying almost as hard as he's. You have a standard-issue cotton onesie stuck securely...
Pädagogisches Spielzeug ab 1 Jahr: A British Dad's Guide
It's exactly 5:43 in the morning, four days after the twins’ first birthday party, and I'm sitting on the living room rug staring at a plastic farm animal that has been singing the same off-key rendition of 'Old MacDonald' for...
Letter To Myself Before My Baby Girl Boutique Shopping Obsession
Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago. You're sitting on the raw plywood floor of the attic at 10 PM. Leo is downstairs watching Bluey at a volume that literally shakes the floorboards, you've got a lukewarm mug of French...
The Truth About Baby Bibs (And Why You Need Them On Day One)
It was October 2017 and I was sitting in this ridiculously overpriced café downtown wearing a beige cashmere sweater that I had bought specifically because it made me feel like a functioning human adult. Leo was three weeks old. He...
Finding spielzeug für jungs ab 3 jahre without losing your mind
I was holding a bucket of toddler vomit in my left hand and a feverish thirty-pound boy in my right when my bare heel found the stegosaurus. It pierced the fascia of my plantar surface in the dark at three...
The Giant Sleepsuit Myth And Why Baby Girl Leggings Are Better
It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was standing in the nursery wearing a milk-stained nursing tank and exactly one sock. Maya was four months old, screaming at a pitch that I'm pretty sure was vibrating the windowpanes,...
The Thermoregulation Bug: Why We Keep Our Baby in Rompers
We were standing in the driveway during that weird Portland heat dome last July when my brain effectively blue-screened. My mother-in-law was on FaceTime insisting our then-newborn needed full linen long sleeves so the sun wouldn't vaporize him. My neighbor...
The Messy, Soap-Tasting Truth About Choosing The Right Baby Bowls
Before I even bought a highchair for Leo, three different people gave me completely contradicting advice about feeding him. My mother-in-law cornered me in my own kitchen to say that plates were a waste of money and I should just...
Baby Bowls Silicone: Troubleshooting The Night Spaghetti Won
6:14 PM, Tuesday. The ambient temperature in the kitchen was 68 degrees, but the marinara sauce slowly dripping down the bridge of my glasses was closer to 105. My eleven-month-old daughter had just executed a flawless physics demonstration right in...