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A dad staring confused at a massive pile of complicated baby shower gifts

Decoding The Perfect Infant Gift Set Without Crashing Your System

I'm currently staring at a miniature denim jacket that features six fully functional, incredibly stiff metal buttons. My son is eleven months old now, but when he was a newborn, someone handed us a beautifully wrapped box containing this rigid...

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Sarah pushing a stroller through the snow while drinking a large iced coffee

Buying a Fußsack Kinderwagen Winter Neugeborene? Read This

It was mid-February, it was maybe fourteen degrees outside, and I was standing on the sidewalk in front of our local bakery crying into a lukewarm cappuccino. Leo was exactly three weeks old. I was wearing maternity leggings that had...

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Baby Leo wearing a brown wool strickhose pant while sleeping on a rug

Why the Strickhose Baby Trend Actually Saved My Newborn's Sleep

I was standing in our drafty hallway at 3:14 AM wearing nothing but a nursing bra and a pair of my husband Dan’s sweatpants that had a mysterious yogurt stain on the knee, holding a screaming three-week-old Leo who felt,...

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A pile of stained newborn bibs sitting next to a half-empty coffee cup on a messy kitchen table.

How Many Bibs Do I Need For A Newborn? The Spitty Truth

It was Thanksgiving 2017, and Maya was exactly six weeks old. We were at my mother-in-law’s house, which is basically a museum of white linen and breakable objects, and I was wearing a rust-colored silk blouse because I was, like,...

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Twin toddlers wearing 1970s style organic cotton shirts and joggers

The utter chaos of dressing twins in retro kids clothes

My mother-in-law practically kicked our front door off its hinges last Tuesday to hand me a bin bag full of highly flammable, heavily synthetic 1984 baby rompers that my wife apparently wore, insisting the twins needed to wear them immediately....

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A dad looking at his phone while his baby plays with a teether in a coffee shop

Hunting Down The Discontinued Baby Jogger Vue: A Dad's Reality

I'm currently crouched behind a faux-reclaimed wood table at a Portland coffee shop, obsessively refreshing Facebook Marketplace on my phone while my 11-month-old attempts to deep-throat a cork coaster. Before I became a dad, my entire philosophy on gear was...

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A toddler playing with a wooden block set on a living room rug.

Why we finally switched to holz kinderspielzeug (wooden toys)

It was a Tuesday. 6:14 AM. Leo was three, Maya was basically a blob, and I was holding a cold mug of coffee while wearing a stained Nirvana t-shirt I’ve owned since college. I was staring at our living room...

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Marcus holding an organic cotton onesie in a minimalist Swiss baby store.

Why Fribourg Baby Stores Completely Ruined American Shopping For Me

We're standing on the freezing cobblestones outside the train station in the Canton of Fribourg, the airline has lost all three of our checked bags, and my 11-month-old is wearing a spit-up stained pajama top that smells heavily of expired...

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Two toddlers sleeping under a light bamboo blanket in summer

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....

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