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A dad clumsily trying to fold a muslin blanket around his baby

Debugging the Swaddle: When and How Long to Wrap Your Baby

My mom told me to wrap her tight enough to bounce a quarter off her stomach. The lactation consultant we saw on day three said her hands absolutely needed to be up by her face so she could self-soothe. Then...

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Surviving the newborn clothing trap and the truth about baby shirts

The meconium was somehow behind his left ear. I was twenty-four hours postpartum, sitting in a dimly lit Chicago hospital room, trying to remove a rigid, non-stretch cotton collar from my son's wobbly, grapefruit-sized head without getting the black tar-like...

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The survival guide to the baby knit pullover

It was thirty degrees in Chicago last November, and my fourteen-month-old was doing the alligator death roll on the living room rug. I was attempting to line up three microscopic buttons on a very trendy, very stiff denim jacket his...

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A tired dad holding a wooden baby rattle while looking at his laptop

Why I Was Completely Wrong About Rasseln FΓΌr Babys As A New Dad

It was Tuesday at roughly 4:12 PM, and my living room looked like a warehouse explosion at a brightly colored plastics factory. I was sitting on the rug holding a neon green plastic hippo. I shook it. It emitted a...

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A tired British dad holding two identical merino wool bodysuits.

Dear past me: The messy truth about your first body merinowolle

You're currently standing in front of the Zanussi washing machine at three in the morning, holding what used to be a sixty-quid newborn base layer and is now a felted coaster suitable only for a rather small espresso cup. You're...

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A gray knitted blanket draped over a stroller handle on a rainy Portland afternoon.

The great crib myth and finding a safe gestrickte babydecke

I was standing in the nursery, meticulously folding a beautiful, sage-green knit blanket over the edge of the crib mattress. I had spent twenty minutes getting the drape exactly right. The room looked like a high-end catalog shoot, completely ready...

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The truth about Holzspielzeug 2 JΓ€hrige and surviving toddlerhood

Listen. It was Tuesday at three in the morning when my foot found the plastic farm animal. I was shuffling toward the kitchen to get water, sleep-deprived and freezing in the middle of a Chicago winter, and my heel came...

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Maya screaming in a stroller while I hold a dropped buggy spielzeug and a spilled coffee

The Buggy Spielzeug Survival Guide (Because I Almost Lost It)

I was sweating through a grey Zara sweater that honestly already smelled like old milk, standing outside a bakery on a Tuesday in April. It was raining, naturally. Maya was ten months old and doing that back-arching scream that makes...

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A confused dad staring at his phone while pushing an empty stroller in a park.

Angebote Kinderwagen: A Tech Dad's Guide to Debugging Baby Transport

"Don't spend more than $200, they just poop in it anyway," my brother-in-law told me over a hazy IPA at a brewery in the Pearl District, gesturing vaguely at his toddler who was currently eating a coaster. Literally the next...

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