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A desperately tired dad holding two crying twin baby girls

The baby shower gifts exhausted parents actually want

We were sitting in our ground-floor flat in Zone 3, staring at a six-foot-tall synthetic velvet giraffe named Barnaby that my wife's great-aunt Susan had just proudly manhandled through our incredibly narrow hallway. Barnaby didn't do anything. He didn't hold...

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My very messy, tear-filled attempt at babydecke stricken

It was 3 AM on a Tuesday in November 2016, and I was sitting cross-legged on our hideous, scratchy brown living room rug. I was seven months pregnant with Leo, wearing my husband Dave’s oversized college hoodie, and I was...

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Toddler wearing a neutral organic bodysuit representing nachhaltige mode

Why your baby skin actually needs nachhaltige mode to heal

Don't buy the fifteen-dollar dinosaur onesie multipack from that targeted midnight social media ad. I know it looks like a steal when you're nursing at three in the morning and your impulse control is completely shot. I did exactly this...

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The Brutal Truth About Heirloom Crochet Baby Blanket Patterns

3 AM in pediatric triage is a specific kind of purgatory. The fluorescent lights hum, everything smells vaguely of bleach, and you're running on stale coffee and adrenaline. I was three years into my nursing career when a frantic grandmother...

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Toddler running in garden wearing sustainable boys apparel and a sun hat

Why the clothing industry is completely wrong about little boys

There's this incredibly persistent, borderline dangerous myth floating around the local playgroups that dressing male children is somehow the easy way out. The working theory goes that while parents of girls are trapped in a complex matrix of tights that...

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A pile of outgrown neutral baby clothes next to a wooden measuring tape

The reality of baby sizes and why age labels are lying to you

I was sweating through my postpartum shirt, trying to fold my three-week-old son's arm into a rigid denim jacket labeled zero-to-three months for a mandatory family photo. His arm was stuck at a strange right angle while he screamed, and...

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A tiny premature baby wearing an organic cotton side-snap bodysuit in the NICU

Navigating the Chaos of Buying Tiny Outfits for Premature Babies

My mom told me they didn't even make garments that small back in the day and to just wrap her in a receiving blanket until she chunked up. The NICU nurse told me to immediately send my husband out to...

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A pile of folded organic cotton baby clothes on a rocking chair

What Nobody Tells You About Buying Clothes for Your Newborn

I was exactly thirty-eight weeks pregnant with my first kid, sitting on the floor of his perfectly painted sage green nursery, just absolutely sobbing over a tiny tweed vest. I had spent the last six months accumulating what can only...

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A frustrated mom holding a coffee while staring at an infant car seat

The Huge Car Seat Lie That Cost Me Weeks of Sleep (And Money)

I was standing in the middle of a big box baby storeβ€”seven months pregnant with Leo, wearing maternity leggings that definitely had a crusty yogurt stain on the knee from God knows whereβ€”just absolutely sobbing. My husband Dave was holding...

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