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Baby sitting on a rug throwing a wooden baby block while parent drinks coffee

The Great Baby Block Myth (Why Your Kid Only Throws Things)

It's 6:15 AM on a Tuesday, and I'm wearing yesterday's yoga pants and holding a mug of coffee that has already been microwaved twice. Leo is ten months old, sitting on the living room rug. I've just constructed a magnificent,...

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Why The Clinical Genius Of Japanese Baby Clothes Makes Sense

My mother-in-law told me to put three layers of fleece on the baby because his hands felt cold. My favorite attending doctor at the hospital said he was sweating through his onesie and to strip him down to a diaper....

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Maya sleeping with her favorite stuffed animal blanket in the crib

The Truth About That Stuffed Animal Blanket (And Why You Need Three)

It's 2017. I'm wearing a maternity tank top that smells distinctly like sour milk, standing in the middle of a Target parking lot in the pouring rain, digging through the trunk of my Subaru while my husband holds a screaming...

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Baby wearing an organic cotton infant romper playing on a playmat

The Great Infant Romper Lie And What Actually Keeps Babies Cool

I was standing in the emergency room triage bay during a brutal Chicago heatwave when I realized most parents have no idea how to dress a child. The smell of antiseptic was giving me a headache. A frantic mother carried...

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Why I Stopped Buying Cheap Joke Shirts For My Kids

I was sweating through my own nursing tank, trying to wrestle my oldest son—who was basically built like a sack of bowling balls at four months old—into a stiff neon green shirt my brother-in-law bought him. It said "I Only...

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Folded organic baby blankets stacked next to a wooden crib

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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Why I Traded Tiny Jeans for Bubble Rompers (And Never Looked Back)

I was sweating through my t-shirt in the Target parking lot, desperately trying to yank a pair of size 3-month rigid denim skinny jeans over my oldest daughter's delightfully chunky thighs while she screamed like a banshee. I'm just gonna...

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Mom wearing a silicone teething necklace while holding a baby

A teething necklace for mom saved my sanity and my shirts

It was a Tuesday in early November. I was sitting in the corner booth at Red Roasters wearing a ridiculous emerald green silk blouse that I had absolutely no business wearing to a coffee shop with a six-month-old. Maya was...

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A messy pile of soft organic baby clothes next to a half-empty coffee mug

The Great Mini-Adult Wardrobe Lie and Other Winter Baby Truths

My husband Mark was holding Maya like she was an unexploded bomb, sweat literally beading on his forehead, while I tried to aggressively shove her tiny, raw-noodle arm into the sleeve of a mustard yellow cable-knit pullover. She was three...

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