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A cozy kinderwagen sack sitting in a stroller on a snowy porch.

The kinderwagen sack: A letter to myself about winter walks

You're currently sweating through your favorite oversized sweater, wrestling a screaming six-month-old into a puffy fleece snowsuit while your toddler dumps a box of Cheerios all over the mudroom floor. I know exactly how your back aches right now from...

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A sage green silicone baby bib covered in smashed sweet potato on a white table.

Lätzchen Silikon: Why I abandoned the cloth bib fantasy

It was day four of baby-led weaning. My son had managed to work a single wedge of roasted sweet potato into his hair, his ears, and the space between his toes. But the real tragedy was his chest. He was...

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Toddler covered in tomato sauce wearing a wipeable sleeved bib

The Myth Of Aesthetic Feeding And Why You Need Lätzchen Ärmel

It’s 6:15 PM on a Tuesday in 2018, and I'm standing in the middle of my kitchen wearing what was once a highly respectable gray sweatshirt but is now basically a Jackson Pollock canvas of avocado smears and despair, just...

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Sarah hält eine Zahnbürste für Kleinkinder im Badezimmer

Die richtige Zahnbürste für Kleinkinder finden (ohne Drama)

Meine Schwiegermutter drängte mich am Dienstagmorgen in der Küche in die Ecke – sie trug diese furchteinflößende Schürze mit den riesigen Sonnenblumen, an der noch etwas Mehl klebte –, fuchtelte mit einem Pfannenwender herum und meinte: „Rubbel einfach mit einem...

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Crumpled bamboo duvet in a toddler bed next to a stuffed animal

Toddler night sweats, triage, and the bettdecke bambus solution

There's a persistent lie circulating in affluent parenting circles that a natural goose down comforter is the ultimate luxury you can offer a sleeping child. We bought into it. It was early November, the Chicago wind was brutal, and I...

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A messy pile of folded organic baby merino wool sweaters and sleep sacks on a bed

Scoring Big at a Baby Merino Wool Sale Without Losing Your Mind

My mother-in-law—who's generally a lovely woman but keeps her thermostat set to what I can only describe as 'tropical terrarium'—told me when Leo was born that I needed to dress him in thick wool from head to toe or he...

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Stressed mom holding coffee looking at a giant puffy baby snowsuit

My Utterly Chaotic Guide to Surviving Your First Infant Winter

I'm standing in our icy driveway, and the wind is absolutely howling. It's November 2017, Maya is barely six months old, and I'm holding a lukewarm mug of dark roast in one hand while trying to wrestle a screaming, rigid...

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Newborn baby wearing a layered winter dress and cotton tights

The truth about newborn winter dresses and freezing temperatures

November in Chicago is a specific kind of brutal. The wind does that thing where it physically hurts your face. I was standing in my hallway holding my three-week-old daughter, who was stuffed into a thick velvet holiday dress, layered...

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A baby wearing a white cropped baby tee while lying on a playmat.

Why the cropped baby tee saved my sanity and his cord stump

Day five postpartum. Three in the morning. July in Chicago. The window unit AC was rattling like a dying lawnmower, the ambient humidity was somewhere around ninety percent, and my son was screaming with the kind of intensity that makes...

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