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Baby wearing an organic cotton footless newborn long sleeve romper on a rug

Why I Ditched Footies for a Newborn Long Sleeve Romper

It was three in the morning in our drafty Chicago apartment, and I was holding a screaming, poop-covered infant while trying to align what felt like eighty-four tiny metal snaps on a rigid fleece footie. My fingers were trembling, my...

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Why Buying Baby Christmas PJs Nearly Broke My Spirit This Year

I was sitting waist-deep in a pile of aggressively red, synthetic fleece at 11 PM on a Tuesday, completely drenched in sweat. My oldest, Wyatt, was screaming in the background, my husband was staring at me like I'd completely lost...

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Decoding the Organic Baby Boy Jumpsuit: A Tired Dad's Field Notes

Dear Marcus from six months ago. Right now, you're standing over the changing table at 3:14 AM. You're sweating in the drafty Portland winter air. Leo is screaming with the exact pitch and intensity of a dial-up modem trying to...

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Wholesale Vintage T Shirts: The Toxic Secret You Need To Know

The biggest myth in modern parenting is that you're somehow failing the planet if you aren't dressing your toddler in authentic, perfectly faded 1980s band tees you scored from a thrift bin. I believed this myth so deeply that two...

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Dear Past Me: The Absolute Messy Truth About Rock Babykleidung

Dear Sarah of exactly six months ago, You're currently sitting in the Target parking lot with the AC blasting because it’s ungodly hot, ignoring your steering wheel which is completely sticky because your iced oat milk latte just aggressively leaked...

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Baby Maya wearing a ribbed onesie romper while crawling on a rug

The ultimate onesie romper debate and why baby clothes confuse me

I was exactly 34 weeks pregnant with Maya, standing in the baby aisle of Target wearing maternity leggings that smelled vaguely of stale coffee, holding a tiny mint green garment and legitimately crying. My phone was aggressively vibrating in my...

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Dear Past Jess: The Truth About That Perfect Babyglück Shirt

Dear Jess from six months ago. You're currently standing over the changing table in the guest room, sweating straight through your only clean nursing bra while desperately trying to peel a rigid, zero-stretch denim-look button-down over Leo’s abnormally large head....

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Small organic cotton premature baby clothing laid out next to a standard newborn size.

What Size Are Preemie Clothes: Former NICU Nurse Explains

You're standing in the fluorescent glare of the hospital gift shop, staring at a rack of doll-sized onesies. Your breast pump is humming quietly in a bag on your shoulder, vibrating against your ribs. You hold a standard newborn outfit...

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Messy pile of baby knit sweaters and rompers on a changing table

The Truth About Infant Knit Clothes (And Why Everyone Is Lying To You)

I was sitting at my kitchen island, hugely pregnant with Leo, wearing maternity leggings that had somehow lost their elasticity in the knees, when three different women gave me completely contradictory advice about dressing a winter baby within a span...

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