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Why the Teething Freezer Trick is a Disaster (And the Silicone Fix)

I was standing in front of the open refrigerator at 3:14 AM wearing a t-shirt I’d spilled coffee on twelve hours earlier, holding my oldest son Tucker while he screamed bloody murder. He was about five months old, drooling like...

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The 3 AM Poop Blowout That Saved Me From Over-The-Head Onesies

There was poop in Leo’s ear. I don’t mean a little smudge, I mean a scientifically impossible amount of bright yellow liquid nightmare that had somehow defied gravity and traveled all the way up his back, past his neck, and...

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The ganzkörper lätzchen saved my twins from tomato sauce ruin

There's a persistent, incredibly damaging rumour floating around antenatal classes that starting your baby on solid food is a gentle, aesthetic journey. You're led to believe you'll hand your darling infant a perfectly steamed baton of sweet potato, which they'll...

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The brutal truth about buying your baby's winter sweater

It was mid-November in Chicago, which means the wind off the lake feels like tiny knives. I was running late for a four-month well-child check. My mother-in-law had gifted us this thick, chunky-knit mustard pullover that looked adorable on the...

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Why Pippi Lätzchen Saved Us from the Teething Drool Nightmare

I'm standing in my kitchen at 4:12 PM on a Tuesday in late November. I'm wearing my husband's oversized grey fleece that smells vaguely of stale coffee and desperation, and I'm holding my five-month-old son, Leo. He is screaming. Not...

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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...

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Why lätzchen 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 ‘La Cucaracha’ while swinging precisely three inches above my daughter’s nose. I was sitting on the...

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Surviving the newborn clothing trap and the truth about baby shirts

The meconium was somehow behind his left ear. I was twenty-four hours postpartum, sitting in a dimly lit Chicago hospital room, trying to remove a rigid, non-stretch cotton collar from my son's wobbly, grapefruit-sized head without getting the black tar-like...

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