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Baby bundled in bright winter gear sitting confused in the snow

Dear Past Marcus: The Skianzug Kinder Survival Guide I Wish I Had

Dear Marcus of exactly six months ago, currently staring blindly at a wall of synthetic winter gear at the REI in the Pearl District while Sarah texts you asking if you've found anything waterproof yet. I'm writing to you from...

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Folded organic cotton baby blankets stacked on a nursery changing table.

The truth about high-end baby presents and what parents want

The water in my bathroom sink was turning a very specific shade of neon yellow. It was three in the morning, my son Rohan was screaming from his bassinet with the raw, desperate lung capacity of a code blue patient,...

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A tired parent holding a teething baby who is chewing on a silicone ring

The brutal truth about teething and surviving the midnight drool

My mother-in-law told me to rub raw honey on his swollen gums, completely ignoring the botulism risk. A mom at music class swore her infant popped four incisors overnight with zero tears because she rubbed expensive vanilla extract on his...

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A mother inspecting the tag on a discounted infant bodysuit in a store.

The brutal truth about shopping a baby clearance warehouse sale

The wind off Lake Michigan was whipping my hair into my mouth while I stood in a line wrapping around an industrial park in Skokie. I was six months pregnant, freezing, and holding a lukewarm decaf coffee, waiting for the...

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Toddler twins wearing bright yellow waterproof fishing bibs on a wet dock

Why your toddler needs real fishing bibs (and not cute raincoats)

There's a very specific, high-pitched intake of breath a two-year-old makes when the icy water pooling on a rented fibreglass boat seat finally breaches her supposedly "weather-resistant" corduroy trousers. It’s a sound that cuts through the roar of a vintage...

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Erschöpfter Vater hält sabberndes Baby mit Silikon-Beißring

Wann zahnen Babys? Ein Überlebensbericht für übermüdete Eltern

Es ist 3:14 Uhr morgens an einem feuchtkalten Londoner Dienstag, und ich stehe mit einer halben, angefrorenen Bio-Karotte in unserer Küche. Meine Tochter – eine Hälfte meines zweijährigen Zwillings-Doppelpacks, damals jedoch erst knapp sieben Monate alt – kaut währenddessen nicht...

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Toddler sitting on an organic cotton playmat next to natural fiber storage baskets

How to survive the kinderzimmer einrichten phase without losing it

I was thirty-eight weeks pregnant when I sat on the bare floor of our second bedroom in Chicago and cried over the smell of a dresser. We had just assembled a suspiciously cheap piece of nursery furniture I bought online....

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A tired dad looking at a massive spreadsheet of newborn products on his laptop

The Only Realistic Baby Inventory A Panicked Parent Actually Needs

At week 24 of the pregnancy, I made the catastrophic mistake of asking three different people what we needed to buy for our impending human. My mom told me all we needed was love and a massive stack of cloth...

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Confused dad holding a tiny, stretched-out synthetic baby onesie.

Why My Spreadsheet Strategy For Budget Baby Clothes Completely Failed

At 2:14 AM on a Tuesday, I was staring at a pivot table I'd built to calculate the exact cost-per-wear of an infant's wardrobe. My son was three months old at the time, and I was treating his closet like...

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