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A pregnant woman looking slightly exhausted while shopping for a maternity party dress

The Chaotic Truth About Finding Brilliant Baby Shower Dresses

Dear Tom of six months prior to the twins' arrival. You're currently standing outside the changing rooms at a high-street maternity shop, holding a lukewarm flat white, waiting for Sarah to emerge. You've been here for forty-five minutes. You think...

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A stressed husband holding a tape measure next to a pile of maternity dresses

The Impossible Physics of Finding the Right Baby Shower Dress

I was standing in our narrow Portland hallway with a flexible tape measure, trying to calculate the cubic volume of my wife's third-trimester bump. She was holding three different dresses on hangers, crying softly because none of them accounted for...

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