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Brutally honest gifts for babies that parents actually want

I was sitting at a baby shower in Naperville last weekend when they brought out the main event. A massive, cellophane-wrapped basket towering with newborn-sized denim jackets, stiff canvas shoes that looked like tiny torture devices, and a neon plastic...

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Dreijähriges Kind spielt konzentriert mit Holzbausteinen auf einer Matte

Spielzeug für 3-Jährige: Ein ehrlicher Survival-Guide

Meine Mutter rief gestern aus dem Nichts an und meinte, wir bräuchten für meine Nichte Clara sofort eine 1,50 Meter hohe Plastikküche mit elektronischen Brutzelgeräuschen, weil sie jetzt in "diesem Alter" sei. Unser Nachbar, dessen Kinder irgendwie immer aussehen, als...

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The Unvarnished Truth About Buying Clothes For Your Tiny Human

My mother stood in our hallway on a mild Tuesday in October, clutching an aggressively knitted yellow cardigan and informing me that my newborn twins were minutes away from clinical hypothermia. Twenty minutes later, the NHS health visitor arrived, took...

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How To Hunt Down Every Good Angebot Pampers Without Going Crazy

I'm currently staring at a giant cardboard box of size 2 diapers sitting in my garage that I bought in a sleep-deprived haze because the neon yellow sign at H-E-B told me it was a mega savings event. Spoiler alert:...

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Before & After: My Take on Spielzeug ab 2 Jahren for Toddlers

I was standing in the kitchen at 6:45 AM, holding a battery-operated plastic dump truck over the trash can like a priest performing an exorcism. My oldest was two at the time, and this truck had been singing the exact...

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Surviving the Night Sweats: A Dad’s Guide to Bamboo Blankets

It was 2:14 AM in the middle of a freak Portland August heatwave, and the Nanit camera monitor above the crib was glowing with a red 78-degree warning. My son, who was about eight weeks old at the time, was...

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The Truth About Designer Infant Clothes and Scratchy Tulle

I was sweating straight through my postpartum mesh underwear in the back seat of a Ford F-150 somewhere on Highway 290, frantically trying to unfasten fourteen microscopic pearl buttons while my three-day-old newborn screamed like a banshee. It's funny how...

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The evolutionary trap of extremely cute babies and the first year

It's 3:14 AM, and I'm staring at a glowing night-vision screen on my phone. My 11-month-old is doing that weird frog-leg stretch in his crib, completely dead to the world, and I'm just watching his chest rise and fall to...

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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...

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