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The Truth On Easy Crochet Baby Blanket Patterns Free

I'm sitting cross-legged on the living room rug at twenty past midnight, entirely bound in a web of aggressively yellow yarn, trying to pause a YouTube video with my nose because both my hands are currently serving as a makeshift...

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The Truth About Why Every Parent Needs a Babydecke Merinowolle

It was a Tuesday, I think. Honestly, those first few weeks are a blurry hallucination, but I remember I was wearing my black maternity leggings—the ones with a faint spit-up stain on the left knee that had been there since...

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Apocalyptic Parenting: Surviving the Tuesday Dystopia

The biggest lie they peddle in those damp, aggressively brightly lit NHS antenatal classes is that the primary threat to your child’s existence is external. The cheerful woman with the laminated diagrams heavily implies that your main job as a...

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The Absolute Truth About That Gorgeous Personalized Baby Blanket

I'm standing in the dark at exactly 2:14 AM wearing sweatpants that haven't been washed since Tuesday, staring into my firstborn's bassinet like it's a ticking bomb. My husband is snoring in the other room, completely oblivious to the crisis,...

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The absolute best yarn for baby blanket knitting and buying

I was thirty-four weeks pregnant, sitting heavily on my living room rug in the dead of a Chicago winter, surrounded by four giant garbage bags of yarn. My mother-in-law had just dropped them off. She had this grand vision of...

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Troubleshooting BBQ: Baby Back Ribs vs Spare Ribs for Babies

There we were in our backyard, forty-five minutes into a rare sunny Portland afternoon, when I casually handed my 11-month-old son, Leo, a massive, sauce-drenched spare rib. In my sleep-deprived brain, this seemed like a brilliant Baby-Led Weaning victory. I...

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Surviving the Hype: Baby Quilt Patterns and Actual Safe Sleep

It was 2:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was eight months pregnant with Maya, sobbing over a jammed bobbin on a borrowed Singer sewing machine. I was wearing maternity leggings that definitely had a hole in the crotch, my...

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Baby Blanket Size: A Messy, Exhausted Guide to Getting It Right

I was standing in my kitchen wearing my absolutely tragic gray maternity joggers, holding my third cup of violently lukewarm coffee, when I realized I was drowning in conflicting advice. I was pregnant with Leo, my first, and three different...

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The Woodland Nursery Trend That Almost Gave Me a Heart Attack

It was late July in 2017, and I was standing outside a strip-mall Starbucks wearing high-waisted yoga pants that I had absolutely no intention of doing yoga in. Maya was exactly three months old. I was holding an iced Americano...

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