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A pile of white cloth diaper inserts next to a bathtub

The ugly truth about deep cleaning your reusable cloth diapers

I was standing over the changing table last November, the Chicago wind rattling the windowpanes, pulling a supposedly fresh cloth diaper off my toddler. It smelled exactly like the gerbil enclosure at a rundown pet store. I had washed that...

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An exhausted mom holding a crying baby in red and green matching holiday pajamas.

My Absolute Worst Night With Matching Baby Christmas Pajamas

The zipper was officially jammed in the microfleece reindeer antlers. It was roughly two in the morning on December twenty-third, and my six-month-old, Maya, was screaming with the raw intensity of a level-one trauma arrival. Her face was the color...

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Messy stack of fabric and a half-finished baby blanket on a coffee table

Surviving the Hype: Baby Quilt Patterns and Actual Safe Sleep

It was 2:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was eight months pregnant with Maya, sobbing over a jammed bobbin on a borrowed Singer sewing machine. I was wearing maternity leggings that definitely had a hole in the crotch, my...

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A bewildered dad holding a tiny organic cotton baby beanie in a nursery.

Debugging The Baby Beanie: My Thermal Miscalculations As A Dad

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, roughly two weeks after we brought our son home, and I was staring at the Nanit monitor on my nightstand like it was a mission-critical server dashboard. The camera feed showed my kid...

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A tired mom holding a folded baby blanket in a messy nursery

Baby Blanket Size: A Messy, Exhausted Guide to Getting It Right

I was standing in my kitchen wearing my absolutely tragic gray maternity joggers, holding my third cup of violently lukewarm coffee, when I realized I was drowning in conflicting advice. I was pregnant with Leo, my first, and three different...

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A first-time dad looking exhausted while holding one tiny organic cotton baby sock

The impossible physics of keeping baby socks on kicking feet

At 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, I found myself on my hands and knees in the nursery, using my iPhone flashlight to hunt for a microscopic piece of gray fabric. My eleven-month-old son was asleep in his crib, oblivious to...

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Folded organic cotton onesie set on a wooden nursery dresser

A letter to myself about the perfect onesie set

Listen. You're currently standing over the bassinet at 3:14 AM watching a mustard-yellow stain slowly bloom across the back of your daughter's supposedly leak-proof pajamas. You're exhausted. You're calculating how many hours of sleep you can get before your shift...

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A baby chewing on their foot while wearing a neutral organic sock.

My Epic Fail And Why Organic Newborn Socks Are Actually Vital

I was sitting on my faded living room rug, trying to pack up three Etsy orders before the mail carrier came, when I looked over and saw my oldest son treating his own foot like a pacifier. He was about...

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Twin toddler girls wearing organic cotton short sleeve pajamas on a bed.

Escaping Sausage Casings: short sleeve pajamas toddler edition

It's 7:14 PM on a damp Tuesday, and I'm currently employing a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu move I saw on YouTube just to get my two-year-old's arm into a pajama top. Elsie is howling indignantly; her twin sister Maya is standing on...

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