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The Real Deal With Baby Swaddling And Escaping The Burrito Phase

It was 3:00 AM, and my oldest son Jackson looked like a very angry, heavily perspiring tamale. I was sitting on the nursery floor trying to wrestle him into a thick, quilted heirloom blanket my grandma insisted was the only...

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The Truth About Long Sleeve Onesies Before You Buy Everything

I was standing in the middle of my living room in late July, sweating clean through my postpartum leggings, holding a screaming, rigid newborn who looked and sounded exactly like an angry watermelon. I had just tried to force a...

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The Reality of Buying a Baby Blanket With Name for Your Nursery

I was thirty-four weeks pregnant with my oldest, sweating completely through a maternity tank top in the middle of a Texas July, staring at a gift box the size of a mini-fridge. My husband’s Aunt Linda, bless her heart, was...

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Mode Nachhaltig: Why Cheap Baby Clothes Actually Cost You More

I'm currently staring at three giant black trash bags full of neon, scratchy, plastic-feeling onesies that my oldest wore for exactly five seconds before outgrowing them, shrinking them, or ruining them with a blowout that defied the laws of physics....

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Why we need to talk about the swaddle escape pipeline

I was sitting on the floor of Kabir's nursery at three in the morning, watching him practice his newly acquired rolling skills like a tiny, aggressive burrito. He was still in his swaddle, thrashing his legs up and slamming them...

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The truth about ropa de bebe: surviving the newborn clothing chaos

I was standing in the sweltering heat outside a CVS in South Beach, wearing a linen jumpsuit that was rapidly absorbing a frankly alarming amount of breastmilk, while holding a naked, screaming six-week-old Leo who had just orchestrated a diaper...

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My 3AM Twin Panic Buying Spree and a gutschein fΓΌr babymarkt

It's 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I'm staring at a digital shopping basket containing roughly nine hundred quid worth of German-engineered infant transport equipment. Maya is asleep on my left forearm, emitting a slow, steady stream of drool that's...

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The Actually Useful Infant Essentials List for Pragmatic Parents

I was sitting on our living room rug surrounded by forty-seven pounds of cardboard packaging, holding a wipe warmer that apparently needed to be plugged into an outlet at all times, when I realized the baby registry industrial complex is...

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A Letter to My Past Self About Finding the Best Baby Shampoo

Dear Marcus from six months ago, You're currently kneeling on a folded towel in our drafty Portland bathroom, gripping a screaming, soapy five-month-old who currently possesses the exact friction coefficient of a greased watermelon. You have sud-splatter on your glasses,...

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