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A bewildered dad holding up two drastically different sized six-month baby pants.

Decoding the Old Navy Baby Sizing Matrix and Hard Truths

I was sitting on the floor of my bedroom at 2:14 AM yesterday, surrounded by a mountain of clean laundry, trying to compile a sorting algorithm in my head. I held up three different pairs of pants. They were all...

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A confused dad looking at a pile of baby winter clothes and yarn

The Great Wool Disaster: Picking the Right Yarn for Your Baby

The baby monitor glowing angrily on my nightstand said the nursery was exactly 68 degrees, which is supposedly the good sleeping temperature for a human infant. It was 2:14 AM on a damp Portland Tuesday, and my 11-month-old son was...

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Baby wearing ribbed organic cotton leggings crawling on a rug

Leggings 100 Baumwolle: The Truth About Pure Cotton Pants

Dear Priya of six months ago. You're currently sitting on the edge of the guest bathroom tub, aggressively slathering Aquaphor onto a raging red rash behind your toddler's knees. You're exhausted. You're wondering if he ate a bad strawberry or...

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Toddler boy wearing a thick knit sweater sitting in a car seat

The Puffy Coat Meltdown and the Magic of Toddler Boys Sweaters

It was 7:14 AM on a Tuesday, heavily sleeting, and I was standing in our driveway wearing one of my husband’s old flannel shirts that smelled faintly of stale coffee and desperation. Leo, who was three at the time, was...

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Priya inspecting leftover baby yarn batches on a wooden table

Why baby wolle restposten changed my mind about knitting

There I was, thirty-four weeks pregnant, standing under the humming fluorescent lights of a big box craft store with three skeins of neon yellow acrylic yarn in my basket. I had this sudden, hormonal conviction that I was going to...

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A pile of cheap funny baby bodysuits next to a rash cream

Why the baby bodys lustig trend is a medical nightmare

It was 3:14 AM. The dim light of the nursery humidifier was casting a sickly green glow over the changing table. Maya had just delivered a blowout of epic proportions, a true code brown that defied the laws of physics,...

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Exhausted dad staring at a toddler tangled in a massive white duvet

Welche Bettdecke FΓΌr Kinder: A Dad's Toddler Duvet Dilemma

3:17 AM. My left foot is currently wedged between the wooden bars of a toddler bed, and I'm trying to extract my daughter Florence from what can only be described as a textile hostage situation. She is entirely encased in...

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A messy family bed with a large white organic cotton blanket and a half-empty coffee mug

Why Our Family Bed Needed a Giant Organic Cotton Blanket

It was 3:14 AM on a random Tuesday, and I was pinned to the extreme left edge of my own mattress by a sweaty, aggressively kicking toddler foot. Maya was three at the time. My right arm was completely numb...

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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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