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A tired parent holding a baby while a smartphone plays Daniel Caesar's Baby Blue track in a dimly lit nursery

The 3AM Savior: Decoding Baby Blue Daniel Caesar Lyrics

There's a very specific type of despair that sets in around 3:14 AM when one twin is screaming because the shadows on the wall are looking at her funny, and the other is methodically attempting to ingest the cardboard spine...

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When Can I Know the Sex of the Baby? A Data-Driven Dad's Guide

I was sitting in a dimly lit, heavily sanitized room in downtown Portland, staring at a monitor that looked like a broken television from 1994, trying to parse the pixelated static to figure out if I was having a boy...

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Blush rose fitted crib sheet on a minimalist mattress with no loose blankets

Why My Perfect Pink Infant Bedding Set Ended Up In The Trash

I was thirty-eight weeks pregnant, sitting on the floor of my Chicago apartment, crying over a contractor bag. Inside the plastic bag was roughly four hundred dollars worth of perfectly coordinated blush textiles. It was a complete crib set I...

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Why I Finally Ditched Cotton for Bamboo Mini Crib Sheets

There I was in a La Quinta Inn somewhere outside of Waco, wrestling a sandpaper-stiff cotton sheet over a travel mattress at two in the morning while my oldest, Tucker, screamed like he was being exorcised. Every time I got...

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Must-Have Babyzimmer Essentials (Minus the Pinterest BS)

I was sitting cross-legged on the floor of our spare bedroom at 2 AM, eight months pregnant with Leo, aggressively weeping into a half-assembled IKEA dresser. I was wearing one of my husband Dave’s old college hoodies that smelled faintly...

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Wie groß ist eine babydecke? My British Dad Blanket Survival

The rain in the Tesco car park was coming down in that aggressively horizontal British way, and I was losing a wrestling match with a piece of fabric. Twin A (the escape artist) was arching her back in the pram,...

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A crumpled pile of organic cotton mini crib bedding next to a half-empty coffee mug and a baby pacifier.

Dear Past Me: The Absolute Messy Truth About Tiny Crib Bedding

Dear Sarah of exactly six months ago, It's 11:43 PM on a Tuesday. You're standing in the guest room wearing those black Lululemon leggings that have a crusty streak of unidentified toddler fluid on the left thigh, and you're holding...

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My Messy Journey Finding Gender Neutral Crib Bedding That Works

I'm currently sitting on the floor of what used to be my home office, holding a tiny, stripped Allen wrench, surrounded by a mountain of highly gendered, hyper-specific baby textiles. It's midnight, my wife Sarah is asleep, and I've just...

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The Truth About Crib Bedding Sets and Bumpers For Your Baby Boy

I was standing in the middle of the nursery, holding what looked like a tiny, quilted life jacket covered in cartoon bears. My aunt had generously shipped us a massive nine-piece bedding set for our baby boy, and I was...

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