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Twin baby girls wearing vintage style dresses in a pram

Dear Past Tom: The Truth About Vintage Style Infant Dresses

Dear Tom of six months ago. It's 3 AM, and you're currently staring at your phone in the dark, bidding forty quid on a pair of authentic 1950s smocked baby gowns on eBay. Stop it immediately. Put the phone down,...

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Frustrated mom holding up a tiny stiff antique baby gown in a laundry room

The Hard Truth About Buying Authentic Vintage Newborn Dresses

I'm currently staring at a yellowed, lace-covered, pintucked monstrosity hanging on the back of my laundry room door. It's my great-aunt's baptism gown from 1942, and my mother just drove it three hours across Texas in a garment bag like...

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Toddler wearing a retro ringer tee playing outside in the dirt

The Truth About Retro Vintage T Shirts for Babies and Toddlers

My husband Dave was holding up a faded, paper-thin 1992 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shirt by two fingers, extending his arm as far away from his body as physically possible, like he was handling a radioactive diaper. We were standing...

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A crawling baby wearing ribbed organic cotton bottoms on a living room rug.

What I Got Entirely Wrong About Dressing A Human In Baby Pants

There I was at three in the morning, holding a tiny pair of denim jeans with a functional metal zipper, trying to thread the flailing legs of a screaming three-week-old into them. It was my first month of motherhood. I...

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A messy pile of ribbed organic baumwoll leggings next to a half-folded laundry basket

The Ugly Truth About My Switch to Bio Baumwoll Leggings

I was standing in my laundry room at eleven o'clock on a Tuesday night, aggressively peeling a pair of toddler pants out of the dryer lint trap, when it actually hit me. The pants were crackling. Literally throwing off visible...

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Sarah holding a soft organic cotton baby bodysuit next to a coffee cup.

From Cheap Laughs to Safe Skin: The Truth About Funny Bodysuits

It was May 2017, and I was sitting in a sweltering community hall in what I honestly thought was a breezy maternity maxi dress but was actually just a floral greenhouse for my incredibly swollen thighs. I was eight months...

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Frustrated toddler in a dance studio trying to pull off a scratchy synthetic long-sleeve bodysuit.

The Great Dance Recital Rash and Why I Burned That Nylon Bodysuit

We were wedged in the stall of the tiny, non-air-conditioned bathroom at Miss Patty's School of Dance, and my four-year-old was screaming like I was actively peeling off her actual skin. Lily had just finished the dress rehearsal for her...

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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 messy stack of washed white newborn onesies on a nursery changing table.

The 3 AM Blowout That Made Me Respect the Newborn White Onesie

It was 3:14 AM. November. I know this because my phone flashlight was blinding me and the digital clock on the microwave was blinking in the background while I stood in the kitchen wearing a fleece Target robe from like,...

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