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The Great Winter Baby Bundling Myth (And What Actually Works)

I was standing in my icy driveway in early November wearing leggings with a very questionable hole in the inner thigh and a stained college hoodie, holding my third lukewarm mug of Keurig sludge, just staring at my mother-in-law. She...

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What I Wish I Knew About Buying Baby Bedding Sets

Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago. It's an unseasonably warm Tuesday in October, and you're standing in the middle of a department store aisle with your pregnant younger sister. You're wearing those black leggings with the mysterious bleach stain...

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Welche Bettdecke FΓΌr Kinder: A Dad's Toddler Duvet Dilemma

3:17 AM. My left foot is currently wedged between the wooden bars of a toddler bed, and I'm trying to extract my daughter Florence from what can only be described as a textile hostage situation. She is entirely encased in...

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The Great Plush Blanket Paradox (And How We Survived It)

I'm sitting on the floor of our tiny London flat, entirely boxed in by a structural wall of fluffy pastel squares. It’s roughly four days after my twin girls were born. They're currently wearing matching baby pyjamas (one of them...

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Dear Sarah: The Truth About That Bunny With Blanket Obsession

You're sitting on the cold kitchen floor right now, aren't you. It's 11:42 PM on a Tuesday, you're wearing Mark's oversized college track hoodie that smells vaguely of stale salsa from last week's taco night, and you've just reheated your...

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Why finding a real usa baby tee is a nightmare (and how to fix it)

Yellow mustard poop all the way up the shoulder blades. That's what I was dealing with at two in the morning in my freezing Chicago apartment, trying to pry a rigid, zero-stretch miniature t-shirt over my screaming son's head. I...

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Why Our Family Bed Needed a Giant Organic Cotton Blanket

It was 3:14 AM on a random Tuesday, and I was pinned to the extreme left edge of my own mattress by a sweaty, aggressively kicking toddler foot. Maya was three at the time. My right arm was completely numb...

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The kinderwagen sack: A letter to myself about winter walks

You're currently sweating through your favorite oversized sweater, wrestling a screaming six-month-old into a puffy fleece snowsuit while your toddler dumps a box of Cheerios all over the mudroom floor. I know exactly how your back aches right now from...

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My Utterly Chaotic Guide to Surviving Your First Infant Winter

I'm standing in our icy driveway, and the wind is absolutely howling. It's November 2017, Maya is barely six months old, and I'm holding a lukewarm mug of dark roast in one hand while trying to wrestle a screaming, rigid...

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