Why the Baby Kimono Saved My Sanity During the Newborn Stage
It's Tuesday, precisely 3:14 AM, and I'm staring at a piece of fabric the size of a large napkin, trying to calculate the physics of threading a furious, screaming human being into it. The nightlight is casting terrible shadows across...
Why I Finally Traded Tiny Baby Jeans for Stretchy Knit Pants
Picture me, sweating profusely in a Cracker Barrel bathroom, trying to peel rigid, non-stretch denim off a screaming three-month-old who had just experienced an apocalyptic blowout. That was my oldest son, bless his heart. I had dressed him up like...
The Truth About Heat Rash and Organic Cotton Shorts
Chicago humidity in July is a specific kind of atmospheric violence. I had dressed my son in these adorable sage green bottoms I bought off an Instagram ad at three in the morning, thinking I was nailing the whole effortless...
Dear past me: The kimono baby phase will save your sanity
It's 3:14 in the morning. The radiator in our Chicago apartment is making that threatening hissing noise, the wind is rattling the bedroom window, and you're crying almost as hard as he's. You have a standard-issue cotton onesie stuck securely...
Letter To Myself Before My Baby Girl Boutique Shopping Obsession
Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago. You're sitting on the raw plywood floor of the attic at 10 PM. Leo is downstairs watching Bluey at a volume that literally shakes the floorboards, you've got a lukewarm mug of French...
The Truth About Buying a Pink Baby Tee (And Keeping It Pink)
I'm currently staring at a laundry basket full of what used to be pastel pink baby clothes, and I'm just gonna be real with you: half of them look like they were washed in a muddy puddle. If you Google...
The Giant Sleepsuit Myth And Why Baby Girl Leggings Are Better
It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was standing in the nursery wearing a milk-stained nursing tank and exactly one sock. Maya was four months old, screaming at a pitch that I'm pretty sure was vibrating the windowpanes,...
The Thermoregulation Bug: Why We Keep Our Baby in Rompers
We were standing in the driveway during that weird Portland heat dome last July when my brain effectively blue-screened. My mother-in-law was on FaceTime insisting our then-newborn needed full linen long sleeves so the sun wouldn't vaporize him. My neighbor...
The brutal truth about chunky baby sweaters and keeping infants warm
You're thirty seconds into trying to shove a rigid, uncooperative little arm through the tiny sleeve of a thick cable-knit pullover when you realize you've made a terrible mistake. The baby is screaming. You're sweating. The dog is staring at...