The Brutally Honest Truth About Buying Bamboo Pajamas For Kids
It's two in the morning, and I'm aggressively wrestling my screaming, slippery nine-month-old back into a rigid fleece onesie while my husband holds a cell phone flashlight in his mouth so we don't wake the toddlers in the next room....
Selling Out: The Messy Reality Of Being A Parent Brand Ambassador
It's 9:43 on a Tuesday morning, and I'm currently using a plastic weaning spoon to scrape an unidentifiable, fossilised substance off the underside of my dining table. Meanwhile, my two-year-old twin girls, Florence and Matilda, are loudly debating who gets...
Dear Past Jess: Finding a Good Feeding Bottle Without the Tears
Dear Past Jess, You're standing in Aisle 12 at the big-box store right now, heavily pregnant with baby number three, staring at a literal wall of plastic and silicone, and you're crying. Real, salty, hormone-fueled tears right there next to...
The Truth About Baby Acne: When Your Newborn Looks Like a Teenager
I was standing in my kitchen staring at my three-week-old firstborn, Carter, under the harsh glare of the stove light. We had dropped three hundred dollars—which might as well have been a million bucks on our teacher salaries back then—booking...
The messy, exhausting chaos of picking the right baby boy name
It was a blistering Tuesday in late August, the kind of heat that makes your car steering wheel feel like a frying pan, and I was sitting in the Target parking lot in my rusted Subaru. I was wearing leggings...
The Real Deal on Baby Pacifier Safety, Mold, and Sleep
When Maya was exactly three days old, I sat on my sagging living room couch wearing mesh postpartum underwear and a nursing tank that smelled strongly of sour milk, holding a screaming, red-faced potato of a newborn while receiving completely...
The 3 AM Drool Fest: Why Newborn Teether Toys Actually Saved My Sanity
It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was wearing a Dartmouth sweatshirt from 2008 that had a crusty white stain on the shoulder that I was actively choosing to ignore. Leo was exactly eleven weeks old. And he...
Salt for babies: how much should they eat?
Es ist nicht notwendig, der Nahrung deines Babys Salz hinzuzufügen. Babys brauchen nur eine sehr geringe Menge Salz: weniger als 1 g (0,4 g Natrium) pro Tag, bis sie 12 Monate alt sind. Die Nieren deines Babys können nicht mehr...
Choosing the Perfect Small Stuffed Animal
Small stuffed animals have a timeless appeal that cuts across ages. Whether you're buying for a child, a collector, or simply indulging in a bit of nostalgia for yourself, choosing the perfect plush companion involves a blend of quality, aesthetics,...