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Sarah hΓ€lt eine ZahnbΓΌrste fΓΌr Kleinkinder im Badezimmer

Die richtige ZahnbΓΌrste fΓΌr Kleinkinder finden (ohne Drama)

Meine Schwiegermutter drΓ€ngte mich am Dienstagmorgen in der KΓΌche in die Ecke – sie trug diese furchteinflâßende SchΓΌrze mit den riesigen Sonnenblumen, an der noch etwas Mehl klebte –, fuchtelte mit einem Pfannenwender herum und meinte: β€žRubbel einfach mit einem...

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Crumpled bamboo duvet in a toddler bed next to a stuffed animal

Toddler night sweats, triage, and the bettdecke bambus solution

There's a persistent lie circulating in affluent parenting circles that a natural goose down comforter is the ultimate luxury you can offer a sleeping child. We bought into it. It was early November, the Chicago wind was brutal, and I...

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A messy pile of folded organic baby merino wool sweaters and sleep sacks on a bed

Scoring Big at a Baby Merino Wool Sale Without Losing Your Mind

My mother-in-lawβ€”who's generally a lovely woman but keeps her thermostat set to what I can only describe as 'tropical terrarium'β€”told me when Leo was born that I needed to dress him in thick wool from head to toe or he...

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Stressed mom holding coffee looking at a giant puffy baby snowsuit

My Utterly Chaotic Guide to Surviving Your First Infant Winter

I'm standing in our icy driveway, and the wind is absolutely howling. It's November 2017, Maya is barely six months old, and I'm holding a lukewarm mug of dark roast in one hand while trying to wrestle a screaming, rigid...

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Newborn baby wearing a layered winter dress and cotton tights

The truth about newborn winter dresses and freezing temperatures

November in Chicago is a specific kind of brutal. The wind does that thing where it physically hurts your face. I was standing in my hallway holding my three-week-old daughter, who was stuffed into a thick velvet holiday dress, layered...

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A baby wearing a white cropped baby tee while lying on a playmat.

Why the cropped baby tee saved my sanity and his cord stump

Day five postpartum. Three in the morning. July in Chicago. The window unit AC was rattling like a dying lawnmower, the ambient humidity was somewhere around ninety percent, and my son was screaming with the kind of intensity that makes...

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The babyzimmer ausstattung myth: Building a nursery that works

I was sitting on the floor surrounded by thirty-four identical pieces of Scandinavian engineered wood, staring at an Allen key that had already stripped two vital screws, when the true absurdity of outfitting a room for an infant finally hit...

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Baby sleeping soundly in a lambskin stroller footmuff while dad drinks coffee in the freezing Portland rain.

Winterfußsack Kinderwagen Lammfell: A Tech Dad's Honest Review

Dear Marcus from six months ago. It's currently 3:14 AM in October, and Portland is aggressively gray outside. I'm staring at the glow of an Excel spreadsheet where you attempted to map out a synthetic polyester layering system based on...

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Dad holding a confusing pile of black cotton leggings while baby crawls away.

The baumwoll leggins damen obsession: Decoding my wife's closet

I'm standing in our Portland basement at 11:45 PM, staring at a laundry basket that appears to contain fourteen identical black fabric tubes. Our eleven-month-old just successfully executed a tactical diaper blowout ten minutes after falling asleep, which means I'm...

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