The 3AM Savior: Decoding Baby Blue Daniel Caesar Lyrics
There's a very specific type of despair that sets in around 3:14 AM when one twin is screaming because the shadows on the wall are looking at her funny, and the other is methodically attempting to ingest the cardboard spine...
When Can I Know the Sex of the Baby? A Data-Driven Dad's Guide
I was sitting in a dimly lit, heavily sanitized room in downtown Portland, staring at a monitor that looked like a broken television from 1994, trying to parse the pixelated static to figure out if I was having a boy...
Why My Perfect Pink Infant Bedding Set Ended Up In The Trash
I was thirty-eight weeks pregnant, sitting on the floor of my Chicago apartment, crying over a contractor bag. Inside the plastic bag was roughly four hundred dollars worth of perfectly coordinated blush textiles. It was a complete crib set I...
Why I Finally Ditched Cotton for Bamboo Mini Crib Sheets
There I was in a La Quinta Inn somewhere outside of Waco, wrestling a sandpaper-stiff cotton sheet over a travel mattress at two in the morning while my oldest, Tucker, screamed like he was being exorcised. Every time I got...
Must-Have Babyzimmer Essentials (Minus the Pinterest BS)
I was sitting cross-legged on the floor of our spare bedroom at 2 AM, eight months pregnant with Leo, aggressively weeping into a half-assembled IKEA dresser. I was wearing one of my husband Daveβs old college hoodies that smelled faintly...
Wie groΓ ist eine babydecke? My British Dad Blanket Survival
The rain in the Tesco car park was coming down in that aggressively horizontal British way, and I was losing a wrestling match with a piece of fabric. Twin A (the escape artist) was arching her back in the pram,...
Dear Past Me: The Absolute Messy Truth About Tiny Crib Bedding
Dear Sarah of exactly six months ago, It's 11:43 PM on a Tuesday. You're standing in the guest room wearing those black Lululemon leggings that have a crusty streak of unidentified toddler fluid on the left thigh, and you're holding...
My Messy Journey Finding Gender Neutral Crib Bedding That Works
I'm currently sitting on the floor of what used to be my home office, holding a tiny, stripped Allen wrench, surrounded by a mountain of highly gendered, hyper-specific baby textiles. It's midnight, my wife Sarah is asleep, and I've just...
The Truth About Crib Bedding Sets and Bumpers For Your Baby Boy
I was standing in the middle of the nursery, holding what looked like a tiny, quilted life jacket covered in cartoon bears. My aunt had generously shipped us a massive nine-piece bedding set for our baby boy, and I was...