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Dad holding a baby girl in a cotton outfit while looking confused at a tulle skirt.

Debugging the Glitchy Physics of Baby Formalwear and Outfits

My mom told me babies need a slip under their dress so the tulle doesn't scratch. My mother-in-law said anything with a skirt is basically a sleep hazard waiting to execute a critical failure. And the barista at my favorite...

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Organic cotton printed baby bodysuit folded on a nursery dresser

The truth about a baby body bedruckt for sensitive skin

There's always that one specific moment at every baby shower. The tissue paper gets pulled back, the entire room lets out a collective sigh, and the mom-to-be holds up a tiny white shirt with something like "Future Boss" stamped across...

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Tiny premature infant in NICU incubator wearing soft organic preemie clothes surrounded by monitors and wires

Dear Past Marcus: The Hard Truth About Organic Preemie Clothes

I still smell that specific pink hospital soap sometimes. The foaming one from the wall dispenser outside Pod B. If I close my eyes right now, sitting in my kitchen with a lukewarm coffee while an 11-month-old aggressively tries to...

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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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Dad attempting to put organic cotton trousers on a rapidly crawling toddler

The ultimate guide to surviving pants for baby (and their parents)

Twin A's left leg is currently trapped in the right armhole of a sleepsuit, while Twin B has somehow managed to remove her entire lower half of clothing using only the corner of the coffee table and sheer, unadulterated willpower....

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A tired British dad holding two identical merino wool bodysuits.

Dear past me: The messy truth about your first body merinowolle

You're currently standing in front of the Zanussi washing machine at three in the morning, holding what used to be a sixty-quid newborn base layer and is now a felted coaster suitable only for a rather small espresso cup. You're...

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First time dad holding 11-month-old baby girl in a functional organic cotton dress

The Great Tulle Disaster: A Dad's Guide to Baby Kleider MΓ€dchen

I was sitting in the back of a rented Subaru in a gravel parking lot in Bend, Oregon, frantically trying to debug a zipper that was hopelessly jammed in three layers of synthetic tulle. The temperature outside was pushing ninety...

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Exhausted mom holding a newborn wearing a soft organic cotton footed sleep and play.

The 3 AM Diaper Change and the Newborn Jumpsuit Reality

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was crying in a nursing bra that smelled intensely like sour milk and desperation. Leo was exactly four days old. My husband, Dave, was hovering unhelpfully in the nursery doorway holding...

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The Truth About Babia.to Elementor & Why Safe Baby Shopping Matters

So, when I first decided I was going to start a little side-hustle blog about pureeing vegetablesβ€”which, spoiler alert, lasted exactly three weeks before I remembered I hate cookingβ€”I got completely conflicting advice from literally everyone in my life. My...

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