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A tired mom organizing a pile of plush baby blankets on a nursery floor.

How To Actually Use The Mountain Of Plush Baby Blankets You Got

I was thirty-eight weeks pregnant, sitting on the heavy rug of our two-bedroom apartment in Logan Square, staring at a mountain of fleece. The baby shower was over. My aunties had left, taking their tupperware and well-meaning unsolicited advice with...

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Tired mom holding a sleeping baby dressed in a soft bamboo pajama sleeper

I Thought $35 Bamboo Pajamas Were a Scam (I Was Wrong)

It’s 3:14 AM in mid-July. My firstborn, Jacksonβ€”who I love dearly but remains my walking, talking cautionary tale for all things parentingβ€”is screaming his lungs out. He’s wearing one of those rigid, aggressively adorable cotton zip-ups my aunt bought him....

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A worn-out baby lovey blanket with floppy bunny ears sitting on a crib mattress

Bunny Blankets: The Great Lovey Debate and Why I Finally Caved

"If you give him that thing, he's gonna be taking it to his college dorm," my mom warned me over a lukewarm cup of Folgers when my oldest, Wyatt, was about eight months old. We were sitting at my kitchen...

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The 3 AM BΓ©bΓ© en Ligne Shopping Panic & What You Actually Need

Jackson (my oldest, bless his heart, and the reason I found my first gray hair at twenty-six) was exactly six weeks old, screaming like a banshee, and wearing a fleece zip-up that felt like the inside of a baked potato....

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Maya sleeping with her favorite stuffed animal blanket in the crib

The Truth About That Stuffed Animal Blanket (And Why You Need Three)

It's 2017. I'm wearing a maternity tank top that smells distinctly like sour milk, standing in the middle of a Target parking lot in the pouring rain, digging through the trunk of my Subaru while my husband holds a screaming...

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The Real Deal With Baby Swaddling And Escaping The Burrito Phase

It was 3:00 AM, and my oldest son Jackson looked like a very angry, heavily perspiring tamale. I was sitting on the nursery floor trying to wrestle him into a thick, quilted heirloom blanket my grandma insisted was the only...

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Tired mom holding a baby wearing a cozy wool sleep sack in a nursery

Why A Wool Sleep Sack Fixed My Massive Midnight Laundry Problem

It was 3:14 AM, and I was standing in the dark over my oldest child’s crib with my hand shoved down the back of his pajamas, trying to figure out if he felt like a normal human boy or a...

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A baby sleeping safely in a wearable blanket

Why we need to talk about the swaddle escape pipeline

I was sitting on the floor of Kabir's nursery at three in the morning, watching him practice his newly acquired rolling skills like a tiny, aggressive burrito. He was still in his swaddle, thrashing his legs up and slamming them...

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Confused dad looking at tiny baby clothes and a measuring tape

Decoding European Baby Sizes: Why Centimeters Finally Make Sense

Standing in our dim nursery at two in the morning, I was holding two different bodysuits up to the moonlight. One was a legacy American brand labeled "0-3 Months." The other was a European piece labeled "Size 56." The baby,...

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