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A sleek black travel cot fully set up in a messy hotel room

Surviving 3 AM Hotel Disasters With The Baby Bjorn Travel Crib

I'm standing in my Marks & Spencer boxers in a freezing Cotswolds holiday cottage at 3:14 AM, trying to silently reconstruct a borrowed travel cot that weighs roughly the same as a small Fiat. It's a generic, heavily branded brick...

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An 11-month-old baby playing with silicone blocks in a safe, mold-free baby bath.

Debugging the Swamp: Finding Safe Baby Bath Toys That Don't Mold

Before our son was born, I asked three different people what we needed for the nightly bath routine, which resulted in three entirely conflicting data points. My mother-in-law excitedly handed me a vintage, hollow plastic rubber duck she’d saved from...

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The Absolute Truth About Baby Alpaca (And Why My Kids Wear It)

I can still smell the sour milk and panic. It was February 2018, and I was standing in the middle of a crowded Brooklyn coffee shop, sweating through my own coat while frantically trying to unzip my four-month-old son from...

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A sleep-deprived dad holding a coffee cup while surrounded by baby gear

Why Searching "Babies R Us Near Me" Won't Save Your Sanity

It's exactly 3:17 am, and one of the twins has just managed to produce a bodily fluid that somehow defies the laws of physics, breaching the boundaries of her nappy and ascending halfway up her back. I'm sitting on the...

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What I Learned After Googling an Anencephaly Baby Diagnosis

It was 2:14 AM on a random Tuesday, roughly week fourteen of my wife's pregnancy, and I was doing the exact thing every medical professional explicitly tells you not to do. I was sitting in the blue glow of my...

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A tired dad holding his 11-month-old baby while googling celebrity gossip on his phone in a dark room.

The Amber Heard Baby Daddy Mystery & My 3AM Google Rabbit Hole

It's exactly 3:14 AM. My 11-month-old son, who we'll refer to as Baby D to protect his future digital footprint, has decided that sleeping through the night is a legacy feature he no longer supports. I'm pacing the hardwood floor...

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A tired father holding a coffee mug while looking at baby products on a laptop

Building an amazon baby shower registry without losing your mind

It's 3:14 in the morning, the absolute peak hour for making terrible life choices, and I'm deep in the algorithmic trenches of the internet. My wife is fast asleep. I, however, am wide awake and researching wipe warmers. I've just...

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