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Why lΓ€tzchen personalisiert saved my daycare sanity

It was a Tuesday in late October, and I was staring at the neckline of my middle kid’s shirt like it was an active crime scene. The blue terry-cloth drool catcher around his neck had a faded, washed-out Sharpie mark...

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Why The Wrong Infant Play Mat Will Ruin Your Tuesday Afternoon

It was 2:14 PM on a particularly bleak, rain-lashed London Tuesday, and a plastic, primary-coloured toucan was aggressively singing a distorted, tinny version of β€˜La Cucaracha’ while swinging precisely three inches above my daughter’s nose. I was sitting on the...

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Before buying a hoodie for newborn babies, read this dad's review

It was exactly 10:41 AM on a rainy Tuesday in a painfully hip Portland coffee shop when I realized I had fundamentally misunderstood how baby clothing works. My son was eleven days old. The ambient temperature was roughly 72 degrees....

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A Letter To My Freaking Out Past Self About Winter Baby Hats

Dear 2017 Sarah, You're currently standing in the hallway of the apartment, staring at the front door like it's a portal to hell. It's mid-November. Maya is exactly three weeks old. You're wearing those gray maternity leggings with the breastmilk...

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The Absolute Chaos of Losing Your Kid's Favorite Pink Baby Blanket

It was ten o'clock on a Tuesday night, and I was up to my elbows in a trash can outside a Buc-ee's somewhere on I-45, digging past half-eaten brisket sandwiches and giant soda cups. My husband was holding a flashlight,...

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Why that rainbow baby blanket stayed completely out of our crib

I was staring at a pile of crumpled tissue paper in my mother-in-law's living room when I finally unwrapped it. It was a rainbow blanket, heavy and soft, knitted by an auntie who knew exactly what my previous year had...

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Kinderwagen fußsack für neugeborene: Surviving winter walks

I was standing outside a bakery in the Loop last January when I watched a terrified new dad try to shove his three-week-old into a stroller bassinet. The baby was wearing a fleece onesie, a thick synthetic snowsuit that made...

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The survival guide to the baby knit pullover

It was thirty degrees in Chicago last November, and my fourteen-month-old was doing the alligator death roll on the living room rug. I was attempting to line up three microscopic buttons on a very trendy, very stiff denim jacket his...

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Welche Babydecke-Grâße braucht man? Der vâllig chaotische Guide

Ich war in der 36. Woche schwanger mit Leo, trug eine uralte, an den Knien vΓΆllig ausgeleierte graue Jogginghose von meinem Mann, die ich heroisch unter meinen massiven Bauch gerollt hatte, und schwitzte wie verrΓΌckt. Es war August. Ich stand...

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