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Tired mother testing a baby stroller inside a local retail shop

My brutally honest guide to your baby store near me search

I was thirty-seven weeks pregnant, sweating profusely through a thin maternity top in a strip mall off the Kennedy Expressway. I had just desperately typed a search for the closest local baby shop into my phone, completely convinced that walking...

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Mother pushing stroller over bumpy Chicago sidewalk

The truth about rubber baby buggy bumpers and modern stroller safety

We were somewhere on Fullerton Avenue when the sidewalk just ended. It didn't taper off or gracefully transition into a crosswalk. It just turned into a crater of jagged concrete and exposed rebar, a true Chicago masterpiece. My toddler was...

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Organic cotton retro baby joggers with contrast trim lying flat on wood table

Confessions of a Clueless Runner: The Truth About Baby Joggers

I'm three miles deep into a caliche dirt road in rural Texas, sweat pooling in places I didn't know could sweat, pushing a thirty-dollar plastic umbrella stroller that sounds like a shopping cart with a square wheel. My oldest son,...

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Folded black stroller jammed in the trunk of a car next to baby gear

The truth about baby strollers: What I bought vs. what I actually use

Listen. My foot was wedged against the back door of the Red Line train at Fullerton, aggressively kicking the plastic wheel of a luxury travel system that simply refused to fold. The doors were closing. People were staring. My daughter...

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A mom pushing an UPPAbaby Vista stroller through a crowded city street with a coffee.

The Brutally Honest Truth About Buying an UPPAbaby Stroller

My husband was holding an iced coffee that was dripping condensation all over a display of breast pumps, staring at the price tag like it had just insulted his ancestors. We were standing in the middle of Buy Buy Babyβ€”RIP...

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Frustrated dad trying to fold a massive baby stroller in the rain outside a coffee shop.

The V1.0 Stroller Bug: Why My First Hardware Purchase Failed

It's 43 degrees, pouring that specific sideways Portland rain, and I'm violently kicking the back left wheel of a $900 piece of baby gear while my wife Sarah watches from the passenger seat of our Honda Civic. This was my...

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Sarah pushing a stroller through the snow while drinking a large iced coffee

Buying a Fußsack Kinderwagen Winter Neugeborene? Read This

It was mid-February, it was maybe fourteen degrees outside, and I was standing on the sidewalk in front of our local bakery crying into a lukewarm cappuccino. Leo was exactly three weeks old. I was wearing maternity leggings that had...

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A dad looking at his phone while his baby plays with a teether in a coffee shop

Hunting Down The Discontinued Baby Jogger Vue: A Dad's Reality

I'm currently crouched behind a faux-reclaimed wood table at a Portland coffee shop, obsessively refreshing Facebook Marketplace on my phone while my 11-month-old attempts to deep-throat a cork coaster. Before I became a dad, my entire philosophy on gear was...

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A baby sleeping safely in a stroller with a short-pile lambskin insert and an organic cotton blanket during a cold walk.

Kinderwagen Lammfell Winter: Why I Stopped Panicking

I was standing outside a coffee shop on Division Street in 38-degree freezing drizzle, intensely watching my eleven-month-old's chest rise and fall. My wife's mother had just proudly installed a fluffy sheepskin insert into our UPPAbaby stroller, and I was...

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