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The Myth Of Aesthetic Feeding And Why You Need Lätzchen Ärmel
It’s 6:15 PM on a Tuesday in 2018, and I'm standing in the middle of my kitchen wearing what was once a highly respectable gray sweatshirt but is now basically a Jackson Pollock canvas of avocado smears and despair, just...
Die richtige Zahnbürste für Kleinkinder finden (ohne Drama)
Meine Schwiegermutter drängte mich am Dienstagmorgen in der Küche in die Ecke – sie trug diese furchteinflößende Schürze mit den riesigen Sonnenblumen, an der noch etwas Mehl klebte –, fuchtelte mit einem Pfannenwender herum und meinte: „Rubbel einfach mit einem...
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...
Scoring Big at a Baby Merino Wool Sale Without Losing Your Mind
My mother-in-law—who's generally a lovely woman but keeps her thermostat set to what I can only describe as 'tropical terrarium'—told me when Leo was born that I needed to dress him in thick wool from head to toe or he...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...