Baby Shower Games That Won't Make Your Guests Cringe
I was thirty-five weeks pregnant with my oldest, feet swollen into the shape of overcooked sausages, sitting on a floral armchair in a rural Texas living room while my mother-in-law's friend Brenda aggressively inhaled a microwaved Snickers bar smeared inside...
Real Talk Baby Shower Ideas That Won't Make You Cringe
I was sitting at my kitchen island at 28 weeks pregnant with my first, staring at my phone as three completely different realities collided in my text messages. My grandma was insisting we rent out the church fellowship hall for...
The truth about baby gift boxes and the newborn denim delusion
It was day four of being a dad, precisely 2:14 AM. The baby was actually asleep, which felt like a trap, but I was too exhausted to care. I was standing in our living room illuminated only by the microwave...
Decoding The Perfect Infant Gift Set Without Crashing Your System
I'm currently staring at a miniature denim jacket that features six fully functional, incredibly stiff metal buttons. My son is eleven months old now, but when he was a newborn, someone handed us a beautifully wrapped box containing this rigid...
Why the baby bodys lustig trend is a medical nightmare
It was 3:14 AM. The dim light of the nursery humidifier was casting a sickly green glow over the changing table. Maya had just delivered a blowout of epic proportions, a true code brown that defied the laws of physics,...
The painfully honest truth about willkommensgeschenke fΓΌr babys
My mother-in-law arrived on day three clutching what looked like a Victorian christening gown and declared that a new baby must only be dressed in white lace. The DHL bloke who dropped off our tenth Amazon box of the week...
The Truth About Baby Blankets (And Why Your Crib Looks So Sad)
I remember standing in my oldest son's nursery at 38 weeks pregnant, crying actual hormonal tears of pride because the crib looked like a freaking Pottery Barn catalog. I had a thick quilt neatly folded at the bottom, a perfectly...
Baby Strampler Bedrucken: The Brutal Truth About Custom Onesies
I was standing in the blistering heat of a Target parking lot in mid-July, holding my screaming four-month-old oldest son, frantically trying to peel a stiff, sweat-soaked custom onesie off his bright red, angry chest. My mother-in-law had gifted us...
Why I Completely Misjudged The Baby Shower Word Search As A Dad
I was sitting in a folding chair in our Portland backyard, balancing a paper plate of half-eaten potato salad on my knee, staring at a grid of 144 random letters on a piece of recycled cardstock. Across the yard, Sarah's...