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A slightly tangled ball of organic baby yarn next to a wooden teething ring

The great fluffy lie (and why I started googling babywolle kaufen)

The parcel arrived on a wet Tuesday, smelling faintly of lavender and aggressively good intentions. Great Aunt Muriel had knitted the twins matching cardigans. I pulled the first one out of the tissue paper and immediately realised we had a...

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A tired dad trying to dress a newborn baby in a white organic cotton wrap shirt.

Why The Infant Kimono Top Saved My Sanity With Newborn Twins

Don't, under any circumstances, attempt to pull a high-street cotton bodysuit over the head of a three-day-old infant in the dark. I learned this on our second night home from the hospital, operating on a grand total of forty-two minutes...

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11-month-old baby chewing on the collar of a navy blue baby tee while holding a wooden teether

My kid's favorite chew toy is a blue baby tee (a survival guide)

Tuesday, 2:14 PM. It's aggressively raining in Portland, which is our baseline, but what isn't standard is the sheer volume of fluid currently exiting my 11-month-old's mouth. I'm sitting on the living room rug, watching him systematically destroy a perfectly...

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Baby boy crawling on a rug in a soft green organic cotton jumpsuit with front pockets

Decoding the Organic Baby Boy Jumpsuit: A Tired Dad's Field Notes

Dear Marcus from six months ago. Right now, you're standing over the changing table at 3:14 AM. You're sweating in the drafty Portland winter air. Leo is screaming with the exact pitch and intensity of a dial-up modem trying to...

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Small organic cotton premature baby clothing laid out next to a standard newborn size.

What Size Are Preemie Clothes: Former NICU Nurse Explains

You're standing in the fluorescent glare of the hospital gift shop, staring at a rack of doll-sized onesies. Your breast pump is humming quietly in a bag on your shoulder, vibrating against your ribs. You hold a standard newborn outfit...

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Organic cotton buggy sleeping bag surviving a rainy London park walk

The Muddy Puddle And My Kinderwagen Schlafsack Revelation

It's a Tuesday in late November, featuring that specific type of aggressive, sideways London drizzle that somehow bypasses your coat entirely and settles directly into your bones. I'm standing on the cracked pavement outside our flat, trying to negotiate with...

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Tired dad holding twin babies wearing identical dark bodysuits

The Case For The Black Baby Onesie And Retaining Your Sanity

At 2:14 PM on a damp Tuesday, exactly three weeks into fatherhood, I found myself trying to extract a screaming infant from a pair of miniature, stiff denim jeans. Florence (or maybe Mabel, the sleep deprivation had completely blurred their...

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A pile of faded retro band tees next to folded organic cotton baby pants.

The Great Dry Rot Disaster: A Mom’s Guide to Vintage T Shirts

It was a blistering Tuesday afternoon in my Texas driveway, and I had just wrestled my oldest child—who's now basically a walking cautionary tale for my parenting—into a pristine, never-worn 1982 Journey tour tee. I found it at Canton Trade...

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Toddler boy wearing a sustainable knit cardigan over a cotton tee playing outdoors

Why Every Parent Needs a Boys Cardigan in the Diaper Bag Now

We were crammed into a plastic portable toilet at the Parker County Peach Festival when the great sweater incident of 2019 happened. My oldest son, who is the cautionary tale for pretty much all my parenting advice, was two years...

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