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Musselintücher Baby: A Tech Dad's Guide to Spit-Up Management
It was exactly 2:14 AM when I realized my understanding of fluid dynamics was fundamentally flawed. My son was only three weeks old at the time, and I was holding him upright after a feeding, armed with a highly-rated, incredibly...
Debugging Cold Walks: Fußsack für Kinderwagen Winter Guide
It was forty-two degrees in Portland, the wind was doing that miserable sideways misting thing, and I was sweating profusely while trying to compress what looked like a tiny, furious Michelin Man into a stroller seat designed for a normal...
The Truth About Baby Rompers And The Blowout That Broke Me
It was a Tuesday in April, raining that stupid sideways rain we get in the spring, and I was hiding in the single-stall bathroom of a Starbucks with my four-month-old daughter Maya. I was wearing a silk blouse. I don’t...
The Brutal, Messy Truth About Surviving Baby Onesies
It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, roughly six weeks into the twin experiment, and I was holding a small, violently crying creature at arm's length. The issue wasn't the crying (I'd grown accustomed to the acoustic assault), but rather...
Finding a Bettdecke für Allergiker When Your Baby Hacks All Night
The timestamp on the baby monitor was exactly 3:14 AM, and the little volume graph was flashing a hostile, aggressive orange. Our eleven-month-old wasn't crying, which almost made it worse. He was just lying there, producing this dry, rhythmic hacking...
Holzspielzeug ab 1 Jahr: Why it is mostly expensive teething rings
Listen, it was 11 PM on the night of my son's first birthday. The living room smelled like smashed vanilla frosting and desperation. I was sitting on the rug, surrounded by a mountain of brightly colored cardboard and plastic, doing...
That Terrifying Sound: When Babies Start Grinding Their Teeth
2:14 AM. A Tuesday. I was wearing a pair of my husband's college sweatpants that hadn't seen the inside of a washing machine since the Obama administration, clutching a lukewarm mug of yesterday's French press coffee—don't judge me, caffeine is...
Looking for Baby Goats for Sale in Cobleskill? Read This
I'm currently hiding in the downstairs loo while my two-year-old twin daughters attempt to dismantle a perfectly good Amazon box in the hallway, and I'm furiously scrolling through listings for baby goats for sale in cobleskill on my phone. You...
Building A Baby Girl Gift Basket That Parents Will Actually Use
It was 3 PM on a Tuesday, and I was sitting on the floor of our apartment wearing Dave’s oversized college sweatpants, crying into a lukewarm mug of decaf. I was 38 weeks pregnant with Maya, and our living room...