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Mashed ripe pear on a silicone plate next to a baby spoon

Demolishing the First Food Myth: Why You Need A Pear Baby

I was standing in the baby food aisle staring at a nine-dollar pouch of organic Peruvian maca root and wild blueberry puree when I realized we had collectively lost our minds. My six-month-old was sitting in the shopping cart, happily...

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First time dad looking confused at a blurry ultrasound monitor

When Can I Know the Sex of the Baby? A Data-Driven Dad's Guide

I was sitting in a dimly lit, heavily sanitized room in downtown Portland, staring at a monitor that looked like a broken television from 1994, trying to parse the pixelated static to figure out if I was having a boy...

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A baby chewing on their foot while wearing a neutral organic sock.

My Epic Fail And Why Organic Newborn Socks Are Actually Vital

I was sitting on my faded living room rug, trying to pack up three Etsy orders before the mail carrier came, when I looked over and saw my oldest son treating his own foot like a pacifier. He was about...

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Dad holding baby wearing a soft neutral cashmere sweater

Surviving the Infant Cashmere Sweater: A Dad's Troubleshooting Guide

The garment had been sitting in its tissue paper like a museum artifact for three months. My wife's aunt had sent it from Geneva, and I had immediately designated it as high-risk inventory. It was a terrifyingly soft, aggressively expensive...

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Baby wearing a long sleeve organic cotton bodysuit crawling on a living room rug

Why standard infant long sleeve shirts are a complete lie (until yo...

It was July 2020, roughly 88 degrees outside with 90 percent humidity, and I was sitting on the concrete patio of my neighborhood coffee shop sweating through my own shirt while three different people offered me completely contradictory opinions about...

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Exhausted mom holding a folded pile of organic cotton toddler summer pajamas.

The Absolute Messy Truth About Buying Toddler Short Pajamas

It was somewhere around 2:14 in the morning in the dead center of July, and our Texas air conditioner was loudly fighting a losing battle against the humidity. I was standing in the dark, wrestling a damp, fleece zip-up footie...

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Jess holding a ridiculous itchy baby dress while her toddler runs away in organic cotton.

The Brutal Truth About Buying Vestidos de Bebe for Your Girl

We were sitting in the third row at First Baptist Church on Easter Sunday, the air conditioning was broken, and my oldest daughter Mackenzie was literally trying to claw her way out of her own clothes. She was maybe two...

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Baby wearing a customized organic bodysuit covered in sweet potato puree

The Ugly Truth About My First Custom Organic Baby Onesie

I was standing in the middle of my kitchen, covered in a highly suspicious mixture of mashed sweet potatoes and spit-up, trying to peel a personalized milestone shirt off my oldest son, Leo. It was his half-birthday, because I used...

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A pile of baby clothes on a changing table in the middle of the night

Why most kids' clothes are actually a trap disguised as cute

It was 2:13 a.m. in the middle of a brutal Chicago February. The thermostat claimed it was sixty-eight degrees, but the nursery felt like a meat locker. I was holding my screaming son at arm's length because he was covered...

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