The sweet potato disaster and the ugly truth about baby spoons
I was wearing a cream-colored sweater, which, let’s be honest, is the first and most obvious mistake I made that day. It was around 5:30 PM, the exact hour when my blood stream is approximately four percent coffee and ninety-six...
The Messy Truth About Why We Finally Switched To Silicone Bibs
Let me paint a picture for you. It’s a random Tuesday in November 2017. Maya is six months old, and we're embarking on the mystical, terrifying journey of Baby-Led Weaning. I'm sitting on my kitchen floor at 2 PM wearing...
The sweet potato incident and the messy truth about infant spoons
There was sweet potato puree on the ceiling. I still don't fully understand the physics of how it got there, but there it was, a bright orange smear right next to the smoke detector in our Chicago apartment. My son...
Debugging Dinner: The Honest Truth About Washable Adult Bibs
At exactly 6:14 PM on Thanksgiving, the system architecture of our family dinner completely collapsed. My eleven-month-old, currently running a highly unstable version of his motor-skills firmware, had just discovered the gravitational physics of mashed sweet potatoes, launching a spoonful...
Salt for babies: how much should they eat?
Es ist nicht notwendig, der Nahrung deines Babys Salz hinzuzufügen. Babys brauchen nur eine sehr geringe Menge Salz: weniger als 1 g (0,4 g Natrium) pro Tag, bis sie 12 Monate alt sind. Die Nieren deines Babys können nicht mehr...