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Babys erste Zahnbürste and the absolute chaos of tiny teeth
My mother-in-law told me to just rub a pinch of turmeric on his gums and call it a day. The pediatric dentist I worked with back in my hospital days told me I needed to establish a rigid, twice-a-day brushing...
The Heatwave Guide to Surviving With a Bambus Decke
It was July, the mercury in our top-floor London flat had just breached 35 degrees, and I was sitting on the nursery floor waving a piece of Amazon delivery cardboard over my eight-month-old daughters like a desperate servant in antiquity....
The Day I Threw Out Every Plastic Plate in My House
There was spaghetti sauce on the ceiling. I'm still not entirely sure how the physics of it worked, but my oldest—who is the cautionary tale for 90% of my parenting decisions—had just execute a flawless, unprovoked karate kick to the...
Why Preemie Size 44 Clothes Actually Matter for NICU Graduates
My mother-in-law told me to just roll up the sleeves on standard newborn clothes to save money. A mom in my peanut app group proudly shared that she bought doll outfits from a local toy store. The exhausted resident on...
Why baby wolle restposten changed my mind about knitting
There I was, thirty-four weeks pregnant, standing under the humming fluorescent lights of a big box craft store with three skeins of neon yellow acrylic yarn in my basket. I had this sudden, hormonal conviction that I was going to...
Premature babies and the sheer panic of size 44 clothing
There's a very specific, cold dread that washes over you when you attempt to put a standard newborn baby-grow onto a two-kilogram human. I was standing next to Twin A’s clear plastic hospital cot, entirely sleep-deprived and sweating through a...
A Letter to My Past Self About the Great Baby Bib Migration
Hey past Marcus. It's currently November, which means you're standing in the kitchen at 2 AM, holding a cloth that smells vaguely of sour milk, trying to calculate if it's physically possible for a five-month-old to output more fluid than...
Surviving cold nights: winter sleeping bag for newborn babies
It was two in the morning during that freak Texas freeze a few years back, and I was standing over my oldest son Jackson’s bassinet with my bare hand hovering an inch from his nose, just praying to feel a...
Why Your Plastic Baby Rattle Might Be A Terrible Idea
My mother-in-law brought over a solid silver shaker straight from a jeweler in Delhi. A woman in my mom group swore by a terrifying plastic monstrosity that flashed strobe lights and played generic techno beats. My doctor looked at both...