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Baby sleeping safely in a bare crib without any loose rainbow blankets

Why that rainbow baby blanket stayed completely out of our crib

I was staring at a pile of crumpled tissue paper in my mother-in-law's living room when I finally unwrapped it. It was a rainbow blanket, heavy and soft, knitted by an auntie who knew exactly what my previous year had...

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A crumpled bamboo baby blanket draped over the arm of a wooden nursery rocker.

The Truth About Baby Blankets (And Why Your Crib Looks So Sad)

I remember standing in my oldest son's nursery at 38 weeks pregnant, crying actual hormonal tears of pride because the crib looked like a freaking Pottery Barn catalog. I had a thick quilt neatly folded at the bottom, a perfectly...

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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 3 AM bunny and blanket crisis that broke me

My hands were elbow-deep in a hamper of sour-smelling sleep sacks at three in the morning. The radiator in our Chicago apartment was making that metallic rhythmic clanking sound it always makes when it drops below zero outside. From the...

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Sarah mit kaltem Kaffee und einer viel zu großen Babydecke im Kinderzimmer

Welche Babydecke-Grâße braucht man? Der vâllig chaotische Guide

Ich war in der 36. Woche schwanger mit Leo, trug eine uralte, an den Knien vΓΆllig ausgeleierte graue Jogginghose von meinem Mann, die ich heroisch unter meinen massiven Bauch gerollt hatte, und schwitzte wie verrΓΌckt. Es war August. Ich stand...

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Dear Sleep-Deprived Me: That Babydecke aus Wolle Was the Answer

Dear Sarah from last November, You're sitting on the cold kitchen tiles right now, wearing Mark's paint-stained gray sweatpants, surrounded by crushed Cheerios that Maya threw on the floor like, three days ago. You're holding a mug of Folgers that...

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Priya holding a folded knit baby blanket next to a wooden crib

Finding the perfect grâße babydecke without losing your mind

We were somewhere between Terminal 3 and the long walk to the American Airlines gates at O'Hare when I realized my mistake. It was January. Chicago was doing that thing where the air hurts your face and the ground is...

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The Truth About Baby Knitting Patterns (And What Actually Works)

Maya was exactly eighteen days old and I was sitting on our beige living room rug in sweatpants that hadn't been washed since the Obama administration, crying over a tiny sleeve. It was somewhere around 2 PM, though time is...

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Messy baby crib with a single safe sleep sack instead of loose blankets

When Is It Safe to Give Your Baby a Blanket?

I was exactly three weeks into this whole motherhood gig when I almost gave myself a heart attack. My oldest son, Carterβ€”who exists mostly now as a walking cautionary tale for everything I did wrong as a first-time momβ€”was born...

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