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Baby trying to pry a silicone suction bowl off a wooden highchair tray

Why suction bowls are actually about motor skills, not clean floors

I'm currently scraping dried avocado off the baseboard with a plastic pediatric tongue depressor I stole from my old hospital ward. People think the whole point of a suction bowl is to prevent this exact scenario. They assume it's just...

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The Truth About Infant Knit Clothes (And Why Everyone Is Lying To You)

I was sitting at my kitchen island, hugely pregnant with Leo, wearing maternity leggings that had somehow lost their elasticity in the knees, when three different women gave me completely contradictory advice about dressing a winter baby within a span...

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Why Your Collarbones Need A Mum Teething Necklace Right Now

My mother-in-law told me to rub a drop of brandy on his gums. My lactation consultant suggested I hold a tightly rolled washcloth over my chest to prevent the tiny, razor-sharp fingernail scratches. A woman in my neighborhood mom-group swore...

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The 3 AM BΓ©bΓ© en Ligne Shopping Panic & What You Actually Need

Jackson (my oldest, bless his heart, and the reason I found my first gray hair at twenty-six) was exactly six weeks old, screaming like a banshee, and wearing a fleece zip-up that felt like the inside of a baked potato....

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The Great Baby Block Myth (Why Your Kid Only Throws Things)

It's 6:15 AM on a Tuesday, and I'm wearing yesterday's yoga pants and holding a mug of coffee that has already been microwaved twice. Leo is ten months old, sitting on the living room rug. I've just constructed a magnificent,...

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The Truth About Heat Rash and Organic Cotton Shorts

Chicago humidity in July is a specific kind of atmospheric violence. I had dressed my son in these adorable sage green bottoms I bought off an Instagram ad at three in the morning, thinking I was nailing the whole effortless...

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The 3AM Meltdown That Made Me Switch To Baby Merinowolle Clothes

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in late October, and our Boston apartment's radiator was doing that aggressive hissing thing where it sounds like a snake is dying inside the pipes. I was wearing my husband Dave's oversized grey...

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Finding spielzeug fΓΌr jungs ab 3 jahre without losing your mind

I was holding a bucket of toddler vomit in my left hand and a feverish thirty-pound boy in my right when my bare heel found the stegosaurus. It pierced the fascia of my plantar surface in the dark at three...

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Spielzeug fΓΌr 2 jΓ€hrige MΓ€dchen: A Letter to My Past Self

Dear Jess of exactly six months ago, You're currently hiding in the laundry room, sitting on a pile of unfolded towels because it's the only room with a lock that actually works. Your two-year-old daughter is out there somewhere in...

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