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What I Learned After Buying a Blanket With Rainbows for My Twins

We were standing by the dismal puddle that passes for a duck pond in our local park when a woman I had never met touched my arm and gave me a look of deep, teary-eyed solidarity. She was staring intently...

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The Pyjama Baby Protocol: A Dad's 3 AM Debugging Guide

It's exactly 3:14 AM, the nursery thermostat reads a chilling 68.5 degrees, and I'm holding my breath while attempting to thread a tiny, flailing leg into a tube of fabric in near-total darkness. The structural integrity of the diaper has...

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Dad trying to put stretchy hosen kinder on an actively rolling 11-month-old baby.

Hosen Kinder: Why Stiff Baby Trousers Are a Hardware Failure

There I was at month four, holding what looked like a perfectly scaled-down replica of my own selvedge denim jeans, staring at my son while he executed a perfect, continuous death roll on the changing table. I had exactly three...

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What I Wish I Knew About Buying Baby Bedding Sets

Dear Sarah from exactly six months ago. It's an unseasonably warm Tuesday in October, and you're standing in the middle of a department store aisle with your pregnant younger sister. You're wearing those black leggings with the mysterious bleach stain...

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Surviving Weaning and the Tactical Genius of a LΓ€tzchen mit Namen

I'm currently staring at a smear of pureed pumpkin that has somehow defied gravity to reach the ceiling rose of our Victorian terrace. It's seven in the morning on a Tuesday, and one of the twinsβ€”I'm fairly certain it's Florence,...

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The Massive Infant Merino Lie That Cost Me Months of Sleep

It's precisely 3:14 am, and I'm standing in a dimly lit nursery holding what feels like a highly agitated, damp jacket potato. Maya, the twin who's currently screaming directly into my left ear canal, is wearing a polyester fleece sleep...

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Why My Woodland Nursery Dream Excluded A Fox Skin Blanket

It was 3:17 a.m. on a Tuesday, roughly four weeks before my wife was scheduled to deliver two actual human beings, and I was staring at a bespoke Icelandic taxidermy website with my credit card in my hand. The flat...

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LΓ€tzchen 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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The Myth Of Aesthetic Feeding And Why You Need LΓ€tzchen Γ„rmel

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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