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Stressed mom holding coffee looking at a giant puffy baby snowsuit

My Utterly Chaotic Guide to Surviving Your First Infant Winter

I'm standing in our icy driveway, and the wind is absolutely howling. It's November 2017, Maya is barely six months old, and I'm holding a lukewarm mug of dark roast in one hand while trying to wrestle a screaming, rigid...

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The truth about newborn winter dresses and freezing temperatures

November in Chicago is a specific kind of brutal. The wind does that thing where it physically hurts your face. I was standing in my hallway holding my three-week-old daughter, who was stuffed into a thick velvet holiday dress, layered...

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A baby wearing a white cropped baby tee while lying on a playmat.

Why the cropped baby tee saved my sanity and his cord stump

Day five postpartum. Three in the morning. July in Chicago. The window unit AC was rattling like a dying lawnmower, the ambient humidity was somewhere around ninety percent, and my son was screaming with the kind of intensity that makes...

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The babyzimmer ausstattung myth: Building a nursery that works

I was sitting on the floor surrounded by thirty-four identical pieces of Scandinavian engineered wood, staring at an Allen key that had already stripped two vital screws, when the true absurdity of outfitting a room for an infant finally hit...

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Baby sleeping soundly in a lambskin stroller footmuff while dad drinks coffee in the freezing Portland rain.

Winterfußsack Kinderwagen Lammfell: A Tech Dad's Honest Review

Dear Marcus from six months ago. It's currently 3:14 AM in October, and Portland is aggressively gray outside. I'm staring at the glow of an Excel spreadsheet where you attempted to map out a synthetic polyester layering system based on...

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Dad holding a confusing pile of black cotton leggings while baby crawls away.

The baumwoll leggins damen obsession: Decoding my wife's closet

I'm standing in our Portland basement at 11:45 PM, staring at a laundry basket that appears to contain fourteen identical black fabric tubes. Our eleven-month-old just successfully executed a tactical diaper blowout ten minutes after falling asleep, which means I'm...

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Mom drinking coffee in a fitted shirt while toddler plays on the floor

My Complete Breakdown Over The Trendy Baby Tee Crop Top Phase

It was exactly 9:43 AM on a Tuesday, and I was bent at a perfect ninety-degree angle over the damp sand at Centennial Park, frantically trying to dig what looked like a half-chewed cigarette butt out of my four-year-old Maya’s...

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Baby reaching for wooden toys on a soft organic playmat on the floor

Ditching the Plastic Jumper for a Real Montessori Activity Space

I was sitting on my incredibly stained living room rug at 6:15 AM wearing yesterday’s maternity leggingsβ€”the ones with the hole in the left kneeβ€”clutching my third mug of desperately black coffee, while my firstborn, Leo, aggressively bounced in what...

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Tired dad holding two toddlers dressed in thick winter layers

The Great Baby Overall Winter Survival Guide for Exhausted Parents

My forehead was pressed against the freezing cold steering wheel of our Ford Focus, beads of sweat pooling in my eyebrows while both twins screamed at a pitch that I'm fairly certain cracked the rearview mirror. We hadn't even left...

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