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A tiny wild hoglet resting in a cardboard box lined with an old towel.

Dear Past Me: The Chaos of Finding a Baby Hedgehog

Dear Sarah from last October, You're currently standing on the back patio holding your third cup of lukewarm coffee, wearing those faded black Lululemons with the tiny hole in the left knee that you swore you were going to throw...

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Stressed mom holding baby in a simple cotton Halloween outfit

Surviving Baby's First Halloween Without the Scratchy Tears

I was standing in the middle of a damp Texas pumpkin patch in 2019, wrestling my oldest out of a $65 synthetic lion suit while he screamed loud enough to wake the dead. The zipper was stuck in a tuft...

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My daughter Maya dressed in a farm animal costume while drinking from a cup.

The Baby Cow Confusion: Milk Rules and Adorable Bovine Trends

It was 2018, I was wearing a stained nursing tank that smelled faintly of sour yogurt, and I made the ultimate rookie parenting mistake. Leo was ten months old, we were completely out of his usual formula, and it was...

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Two toddlers in thick winter trousers standing by a damp London playground slide.

Dear Past Me: Surviving the Great Cozy Legging Winter Crisis

Dear Tom of six months ago, You're currently standing in the hallway holding a miniature pair of stiff, dark-wash denim jeans. You have a lukewarm coffee balancing precariously on the radiator, and you're sweating profusely as Maya and Isla do...

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Twin toddlers wearing 1970s style organic cotton shirts and joggers

The utter chaos of dressing twins in retro kids clothes

My mother-in-law practically kicked our front door off its hinges last Tuesday to hand me a bin bag full of highly flammable, heavily synthetic 1984 baby rompers that my wife apparently wore, insisting the twins needed to wear them immediately....

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Baby girl in a mustard organic cotton long-sleeve bodysuit crawling on a playmat during fall.

The Great Layering Crash: Figuring Out Fall Baby Girl Outfits

We were in the back of my Subaru Outback in the Sauvie Island pumpkin patch parking lot, and my eleven-month-old daughter was emitting the thermal energy of a small sun. It was maybe 58 degrees outside. But inside the car,...

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A stressed dad trying to pull a tiny infant knit sweater over a baby's large head

A First-Time Dad's Guide to Surviving the Infant Knit Sweater

Dear Marcus of six months ago. You're currently standing in the nursery, sweating straight through your gray t-shirt, staring at a rigid, cable-knit wool tube. Your son, who was perfectly happy three minutes ago, is now purple and screaming. His...

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A dad looking exhausted holding a tiny organic cotton cardigan

The Baby Sweater Survival Guide: How Not to Overcook Your Child

"Put a hat on her, she’s losing heat!" shouted an elderly woman at the bus stop, gesturing wildly at Maya (who was currently sweating through her vest and trying to eat a discarded bus ticket). Ten minutes later, a bloke...

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Baby girl wearing a long sleeve organic cotton bubble romper over ribbed tights

Dear Tom: The truth about the long sleeve bubble romper

Dear Tom of six months ago, You're currently sweating through your t-shirt in the narrow hallway of our flat, desperately trying to wedge Twin A’s voluminous, balloon-shaped bottom half into a pair of slim-fit corduroy trousers. She is screaming. You're...

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