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Baby wearing a long sleeve organic cotton bodysuit crawling on a living room rug

Why standard infant long sleeve shirts are a complete lie (until yo...

It was July 2020, roughly 88 degrees outside with 90 percent humidity, and I was sitting on the concrete patio of my neighborhood coffee shop sweating through my own shirt while three different people offered me completely contradictory opinions about...

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A confused dad folding a breathable organic cotton baby blanket in a Portland nursery.

Troubleshooting the Breathable Blanket for Newborns Paradox

I was standing in our Portland apartment's second bedroom—newly converted from my gaming office to a nursery—staring at a stack of fourteen folded textiles. Fourteen. My wife, Sarah, had washed, dried, and color-coordinated a mountain of fabric based on a...

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Tired dad holding an 11-month-old baby and a massive stack of dirty organic cotton and silicone bibs

How Many Bibs Do I Need? A Tech Dad’s Guide To Drool Mathematics

Tuesday, 3:14 AM. I'm standing in our freezing laundry room holding a tiny, sour-milk-soaked triangle of fabric by two fingers, staring into the dark void of the dryer drum. My wife is upstairs walking our screaming 11-month-old in tight circles,...

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A pile of folded organic cotton baby bibs sitting on a wooden nursery dresser

Why You Must Buy Baby Bibs Organic: A Pediatric Nurse Explains

I was staring at a laundry basket overflowing with thirty-two polyester-blend baby shower gifts when I realized my registry was a massive failure. Before I had my son, I thought these fabric scraps were just cute accessories to tie an...

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Blush rose fitted crib sheet on a minimalist mattress with no loose blankets

Why My Perfect Pink Infant Bedding Set Ended Up In The Trash

I was thirty-eight weeks pregnant, sitting on the floor of my Chicago apartment, crying over a contractor bag. Inside the plastic bag was roughly four hundred dollars worth of perfectly coordinated blush textiles. It was a complete crib set I...

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Tired dad holding a baby lovey blanket next to a sleeping toddler

The 3 AM Disaster That Taught Me Everything About Baby Loveys

Tuesday, 6:42 PM. The Central Line. Specifically, the perilous two-inch gap between the train carriage and the platform at St. Paul's station. That's exactly where it went. Maya's beloved, slightly grey-tinged, biologically questionable scrap of fabric slipped from her sticky...

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Mother dressing baby girl in an organic long sleeve bodysuit on a changing table

Surviving Chicago Winters With a Long Sleeve Baby Girl Bodysuit

I'm standing by the changing table in our drafty apartment. It's mid-November, the wind is howling off Lake Michigan, and my six-day-old daughter is screaming. She looks like a furious, wrinkled potato. My mother had lovingly shipped a box of...

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A frustrated dad inspecting the hardware on a knitted baby romper

Decoding the Knitted Romper: A Dad's Guide to Baby Hardware

My mother-in-law cornered me in the kitchen last Tuesday to declare that any kind of woven wool would immediately give the baby a full-body rash. Ten minutes later, my neighbor—a guy who brews his own kombucha in a garage—leaned over...

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A confused dad staring at a massive pile of plain white baby bodysuits

Debugging the Base Layer: A Dad’s Guide to Bodysuit Blanks

Before my son was born, I received three distinct pieces of base-layer advice that completely crashed my internal logic board. My mother insisted I needed to wrap the baby in three layers of fleece because our Portland house is drafty....

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