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A confused baby boy wearing an oversized knit beanie in a stroller

The weird truth about keeping your infant son warm this winter

I was thirty-eight weeks pregnant, standing in a freezing Chicago parking lot, violently arguing with my mother on speakerphone about wool. She was convinced my unborn beta would instantly freeze to death the moment we left the maternity ward unless...

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Dear past me: What to know about baby quilt kits before you start

Dear Marcus from exactly six months ago, I know what you're doing right now. You're standing in the dining room at 2:13 AM, staring at a rotary cutter, a cutting mat, and three yards of woodland-creature-patterned fabric. You have convinced...

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Finding The Best Baby Dragon Decks Without Losing Your Sanity

I'm staring at a Β£14.99 charge on my Monzo app while Molly, the slightly more destructive of my two-year-old twins, attempts to post a half-eaten rice cake into the PlayStation disc drive. The bank charge simply says "Supercell," which sounds...

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Tangled balls of yarn next to a half-finished baby blanket and cold tea

The Truth On Easy Crochet Baby Blanket Patterns Free

I'm sitting cross-legged on the living room rug at twenty past midnight, entirely bound in a web of aggressively yellow yarn, trying to pause a YouTube video with my nose because both my hands are currently serving as a makeshift...

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Mom wearing a sage green linen dress holding her baby son in a complementary organic cotton romper.

The reality of matching mom and son baby clothes without the cringe

Before my son arrived, three different women cornered me with wardrobe advice. My mother-in-law insisted I needed tiny, rigid denim trousers for him, as if a newborn has business meetings to attend. A senior nurse on my floor told me...

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The american baby austin film fest buzz and maternal isolation

Room four was always the coldest in pediatric triage. I used to pull my fleece jacket tight while taking vitals, but the teenage girl sitting on the exam table didn't seem to notice the chill. She was nineteen, thirty-six weeks...

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A wooden baby play gym set up in a living room next to organic clothing.

What a Screaming Backyard Wild Bird Taught Me About Motherhood

It was 102 degrees in the shade, the kind of Texas summer afternoon where the air feels like hot soup and you sweat just blinking, and I was up to my elbows in diaper cream when the back screen door...

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Baby girl wearing a soft organic cotton flutter sleeve bodysuit for Easter

The Complete Dad Guide to Surviving Baby Girl Easter Outfits

The great tulle disaster of last month taught me a very hard lesson about infant formalwear. My wife was out with friends, and I decided to run a beta test on a highly structured, aggressively ruffled dress my mother-in-law sent...

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A crumpled organic cotton baby blanket resting on a nursery chair next to a half-empty coffee mug.

The Absolute Truth About That Gorgeous Personalized Baby Blanket

I'm standing in the dark at exactly 2:14 AM wearing sweatpants that haven't been washed since Tuesday, staring into my firstborn's bassinet like it's a ticking bomb. My husband is snoring in the other room, completely oblivious to the crisis,...

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