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A slightly wrinkled floral baby blanket draped over the edge of a wooden crib

Dear past me: surviving the botanical shower and the infant year

Dear Priya from six months ago. You're currently sitting on the floor of the living room in Wicker Park, staring at a stack of expensive cardstock. You decided to throw a baby in bloom baby shower because it looked nice...

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Honest Girl Baby Shower Themes That Will Not Make You Cringe

Dear Priya from exactly six months ago. You're currently sitting on the kitchen floor surrounded by three different shades of sage green cardstock while scrolling through baby shower themes, trying to figure out how to force fifty people to celebrate...

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Debugging the Pinterest Algorithm: Our Boy Baby Shower Theme Saga

It was 10:42 PM on a Tuesday when the algorithm finally broke me. My wife, Sarah, was asleep on my shoulder, but her phone was still unlocked in her hand, illuminating the dark bedroom with an endless, scrolling matrix of...

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The Day I Realized Baby's Breath Was Actually Ruining My Nursery

I was thirty-eight weeks pregnant, sweating completely through a maternity tank top in late August, staring at a giant wire hoop covered in dried white flowers that my mother had just proudly hung directly over the crib. It was supposed...

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Surviving the Logistics of Boy Baby Shower Invites

It was 11 PM on a Tuesday. I had a Google Sheet open with column headers for "Paper Weight (GSM)" and "Postage Cost Variance." My wife, Sarah, who was seven months pregnant at the time, walked into the kitchen holding...

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Winnie the Pooh Baby Shower Invitations & The Great Gifting Trap

I’m standing in the loft, waist-deep in cardboard boxes smelling faintly of damp and nostalgia, holding the very piece of card that started it all. It’s a muted sage green square featuring a rather tubby pencil-sketched bear and a honey...

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A deeply stained vintage peter rabbit baby shower invitation on a kitchen counter next to a cold mug of tea

Why adopting a rabbit baby is a truly terrible idea for your home

My mate Marcus texted me at half-past eleven on a Tuesday night, which is universally acknowledged as the hour when parents of toddlers make their absolute worst life decisions. "Mate," the message read, glowing aggressively in the dark while I...

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How We Debugged Baby Girl Shower Themes Without Pink Glitter

I was holding a plastic tiara that smelled strongly of volatile organic compounds, staring down an aisle that looked like a flamingo had spontaneously combusted. My wife was twenty-nine weeks pregnant with our first baby, currently asleep in the passenger...

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Two toddler girls destroying a nursery painted in the wrong shade of baby pink

The Absolute Madness of Picking the Right Baby Pink Color Code

I'm standing in the paint aisle of B&Q at 8:15 on a Tuesday, trying to wipe half-digested porridge off my trousers, when the teenager behind the mixing counter asks me which specific shade of pale pink I want. I look...

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