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A stylish gender-neutral baby shower setup with earth tones and wooden toys

Why our gender-neutral baby shower actually saved my sanity

I was standing in a stranger’s kitchen in Hackney, trying to discreetly spit out a bright blue cupcake that tasted distinctly of Smurf and regret, when I realised everything I believed about the modern baby shower was entirely wrong. Before...

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I Googled "Do Baby Teeth Have Roots" at 3 AM and Now I'm Terrified

It's exactly 3:14 AM, and my index finger is currently wedged inside my eleven-month-old's mouth. I'm conducting a blind tactical sweep of his lower gums because he has been waking up screaming every two hours, and I'm desperately trying to...

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Close up of a sleeping infant's ear with a tiny yellow gold stud

Choosing safe gold earrings studs for babies without panicking

My mother-in-law cornered me in the kitchen with a pair of twenty-two karat hoops, telling me it was tradition and that I was overthinking it. A few hours later, my old charge nurse texted me to say that piercing a...

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A soft organic cotton baby doll resting on a folded woodland print blanket.

Choosing my first baby doll before the new sibling arrives

My daughter was holding the plastic newborn by its left ankle, dragging its bald, rigid head across the kitchen tile like a club. The eyes clicked open and shut with every hollow bounce. I was seven months pregnant with baby...

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Frustrated dad holding a bottle of lactose free baby formula at night

Lactose Free Baby Formula: A Dad's Guide To Tummy Troubleshooting

Dear Marcus of exactly six months ago. You're currently standing in the kitchen at 3:14 AM, the rain is aggressively hitting the Portland windows, and your son is screaming in a frequency that I'm pretty sure is permanently damaging the...

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Engraved wooden memory box and organic cotton baby swaddle

The honest guide to personalized baby gifts

I was three days postpartum, sitting on the floor of my Chicago apartment in mesh underwear, weeping openly over a cardboard box. My aunt had sent a gift. It was a massive, aggressively pink velvet pillow, roughly the size of...

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Exhausted mom holding a coffee while her baby sleeps on her chest on the couch

Real Geschenk für Mutter zur Geburt: What Moms Actually Want

Before I had my son Leo, three completely different people cornered me with their brilliant gifting strategies for my impending motherhood. My sweet but clinically insane coworker Susan handed me this massive, scratchy, hot-pink tulle tutu in the breakroom and...

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A soft babydecke merinowolle draped over a crib rail next to a half-empty coffee mug

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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A half-empty infant oil container tipped over next to organic cotton nappies and a wooden teething toy on a rug.

The Great Baby Oil Bottle Disaster: What I Actually Know Now

It's twenty past midnight, and I'm currently holding what feels exactly like a greased watermelon. Twin One (who used to be the calm one, though we’ve long abandoned that classification) has just executed a flawless, aggressive barrel roll on the...

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