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A tired dad researching sleeping bags for infants online.

Why We Switched To Sleeping Bags For Infants (And You Should Too)

My mother-in-law told me to pile three heavy quilts on him because Portland nights are drafty and he was going to freeze. The exhausted NICU nurse at the hospital swaddled him so tightly in a receiving blanket that he looked...

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Why Japanese Newborn Clothes Actually Save Your Sanity With A Baby

Let me tell you the biggest lie the baby industry ever sold us: that newborns need to wear actual outfits. I'm talking about miniature denim overalls, stiff corduroy suspender sets, and tiny button-down flannels. With my oldest, bless his heart,...

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A calm baby sleeping in a muted earth-tone organic wrap bodysuit

The 3 AM Onesie Panic and the Magic of Japanese Baby Clothes

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday and I was wearing a pair of maternity leggings that had a crusty smear of Greek yogurt on the left thigh, staring down at my firstborn, Leo, who was screaming like I was...

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A tired dad trying to dress a newborn baby in a white organic cotton wrap shirt.

Why The Infant Kimono Top Saved My Sanity With Newborn Twins

Don't, under any circumstances, attempt to pull a high-street cotton bodysuit over the head of a three-day-old infant in the dark. I learned this on our second night home from the hospital, operating on a grand total of forty-two minutes...

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Dad holding two teething twins wearing soft organic cotton dribble catchers.

Dear Past Tom: Put Down the Plastic and Get Organic Cotton Bibs

Dear Tom of October last year. You're currently standing at the kitchen sink at 2:14 AM. You're furiously scrubbing a bright orange, polyurethane-coated dribble catcher with an old toothbrush, wondering why it smells faintly of a wet dog that has...

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Baby wearing a breathable organic cotton newborn knit onesie

The completely unhinged truth about buying a newborn knit onesie

I was exactly 37 weeks pregnant with Maya, sweating through a maternity tank top that had a permanent grease stain from a rogue french fry I dropped during my second trimester, when the great clothing wars officially began. We were...

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A frustrated mom holding a baby wearing a wide brim sun hat and UPF shirt

The Truth About Infant Sun Shirts (And Why Your Baby is Sweating)

I was standing in the middle of the H-E-B parking lot in late July, wrestling what felt like a wet fruit roll-up off my screaming four-month-old. Jackson, my oldest and forever my cautionary tale, was beet red and slick with...

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Sarah drinking coffee while holding a crying baby in a puffy winter snowsuit

My Honest Erstausstattung Winterbaby Survival Guide For Moms

It's mid-November, I'm standing in our tiny apartment hallway in maternity leggings that honestly smell vaguely like sour milk, and I'm sweating profusely while drinking lukewarm coffee because my three-week-old son Leo looks exactly like a furious, red-faced marshmallow. I...

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Frustrated mom holding a tiny baby cardigan and drinking lukewarm coffee

Cardigan Infant Wardrobe: Why I Burned All My Pullovers

It was 2:14 PM on a Tuesday, and I was sweating through my only clean pair of maternity leggings in the parking lot of a Target. Leo was exactly three weeks old, screaming like I was actively injuring him, and...

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