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Why The Infant Kimono Top Saved My Sanity With Newborn Twins
Don't, under any circumstances, attempt to pull a high-street cotton bodysuit over the head of a three-day-old infant in the dark. I learned this on our second night home from the hospital, operating on a grand total of forty-two minutes...
Dear Past Tom: Put Down the Plastic and Get Organic Cotton Bibs
Dear Tom of October last year. You're currently standing at the kitchen sink at 2:14 AM. You're furiously scrubbing a bright orange, polyurethane-coated dribble catcher with an old toothbrush, wondering why it smells faintly of a wet dog that has...
The completely unhinged truth about buying a newborn knit onesie
I was exactly 37 weeks pregnant with Maya, sweating through a maternity tank top that had a permanent grease stain from a rogue french fry I dropped during my second trimester, when the great clothing wars officially began. We were...
The Truth About Infant Sun Shirts (And Why Your Baby is Sweating)
I was standing in the middle of the H-E-B parking lot in late July, wrestling what felt like a wet fruit roll-up off my screaming four-month-old. Jackson, my oldest and forever my cautionary tale, was beet red and slick with...
My Honest Erstausstattung Winterbaby Survival Guide For Moms
It's mid-November, I'm standing in our tiny apartment hallway in maternity leggings that honestly smell vaguely like sour milk, and I'm sweating profusely while drinking lukewarm coffee because my three-week-old son Leo looks exactly like a furious, red-faced marshmallow. I...
Cardigan Infant Wardrobe: Why I Burned All My Pullovers
It was 2:14 PM on a Tuesday, and I was sweating through my only clean pair of maternity leggings in the parking lot of a Target. Leo was exactly three weeks old, screaming like I was actively injuring him, and...
Dear Past Me: The Brutal Truth About Wrapping Babies in Cotton
Dear Tom of twenty-four months ago, It's currently Tuesday evening, and you're standing in the nursery of our flat in Zone 3, staring at a stack of twenty-four identical white squares of fabric your mother-in-law just dropped off. You're holding...
Spielsachen 4 Jahre: The Truth About Toys For Four-Year-Olds
The most successful grift in the modern parenting industrial complex is the word "educational" slapped on a box containing a plastic, seizure-inducing nightmare. You know the exact toy I'm talking about. It’s usually shaped like a dog or a heavily...
Skianzug Kinder Jungen: Warum wir drei kauften, bis einer passte
Ich saß auf dem eisigen Fliesenboden dieser extrem nach feuchtem Hund und ranzigem Pommesfett riechenden Skihütten-Toilette in Laax, balancierte meinen lauwarmen Hafermilch-Cappuccino auf dem Rand des Waschbeckens und versuchte verzweifelt, meinem Sohn Leo (der damals 3 war und heute 4...