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Before buying a hoodie for newborn babies, read this dad's review

It was exactly 10:41 AM on a rainy Tuesday in a painfully hip Portland coffee shop when I realized I had fundamentally misunderstood how baby clothing works. My son was eleven days old. The ambient temperature was roughly 72 degrees....

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Dad attempting to put organic cotton trousers on a rapidly crawling toddler

The ultimate guide to surviving pants for baby (and their parents)

Twin A's left leg is currently trapped in the right armhole of a sleepsuit, while Twin B has somehow managed to remove her entire lower half of clothing using only the corner of the coffee table and sheer, unadulterated willpower....

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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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First time dad holding 11-month-old baby girl in a functional organic cotton dress

The Great Tulle Disaster: A Dad's Guide to Baby Kleider MΓ€dchen

I was sitting in the back of a rented Subaru in a gravel parking lot in Bend, Oregon, frantically trying to debug a zipper that was hopelessly jammed in three layers of synthetic tulle. The temperature outside was pushing ninety...

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Exhausted mom holding a newborn wearing a soft organic cotton footed sleep and play.

The 3 AM Diaper Change and the Newborn Jumpsuit Reality

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was crying in a nursing bra that smelled intensely like sour milk and desperation. Leo was exactly four days old. My husband, Dave, was hovering unhelpfully in the nursery doorway holding...

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The Truth About Babia.to Elementor & Why Safe Baby Shopping Matters

So, when I first decided I was going to start a little side-hustle blog about pureeing vegetablesβ€”which, spoiler alert, lasted exactly three weeks before I remembered I hate cookingβ€”I got completely conflicting advice from literally everyone in my life. My...

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Tired dad trying to figure out how to tie a five-metre stretchy baby wrap sling in a car park.

Surviving the Five-Metre Fabric Trap of the Baby Wrap Sling

It was a drizzly Tuesday in the Lewisham Sainsbury's car park when I finally accepted defeat. I was standing next to the open boot of our Skoda, holding what appeared to be an endless, terrifyingly long ribbon of jersey cotton....

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Dad holding a baby wearing a fluffy organic cotton bubble romper

My Humbling Defeat to the Baby Bubble Romper: A Tech Dad's Guide

Tuesday, 2:14 PM. That was the exact timestamp on my smart home logs when I realized trying to wrangle rigid denim onto a screaming eleven-month-old is a foolproof way to break your own spirit. My wife was at a conference,...

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Baby girl wearing a soft organic cotton flutter sleeve bodysuit for Easter

The Complete Dad Guide to Surviving Baby Girl Easter Outfits

The great tulle disaster of last month taught me a very hard lesson about infant formalwear. My wife was out with friends, and I decided to run a beta test on a highly structured, aggressively ruffled dress my mother-in-law sent...

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