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Tired mother trying to wrap a fussy newborn in a breathable baby blanket

Surviving The 3 AM Swaddle Breakout And Other Newborn Nightmares

The radiator in our Chicago apartment was clanking like a dying engine, and it was three in the morning. My son had somehow managed to free his left arm from his wrap and was currently punching himself in the face...

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Why I Stopped Buying the T Shirt Vintage Trend for My Babies

Let me set the scene for y'all. I'm standing in my laundry room at 11 PM on a Tuesday, up to my elbows in a bucket of warm saltwater and baking soda, trying to aggressively massage a 1989 Ninja Turtles...

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The Truth About Retro Vintage T Shirts for Babies and Toddlers

My husband Dave was holding up a faded, paper-thin 1992 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shirt by two fingers, extending his arm as far away from his body as physically possible, like he was handling a radioactive diaper. We were standing...

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A crawling baby wearing ribbed organic cotton bottoms on a living room rug.

What I Got Entirely Wrong About Dressing A Human In Baby Pants

There I was at three in the morning, holding a tiny pair of denim jeans with a functional metal zipper, trying to thread the flailing legs of a screaming three-week-old into them. It was my first month of motherhood. I...

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Why The Baby Body Mit Kragen Saved My Sanity At Formal Events

I was standing in the aggressively marble-tiled bathroom of a ridiculously expensive chateau just outside Geneva, holding my screaming eight-month-old son at arm's length while my husband Dave frantically searched for baby wipes in a bag that only contained, for...

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Babys erste ZahnbΓΌrste and the absolute chaos of tiny teeth

My mother-in-law told me to just rub a pinch of turmeric on his gums and call it a day. The pediatric dentist I worked with back in my hospital days told me I needed to establish a rigid, twice-a-day brushing...

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Two toddlers sleeping under a light bamboo blanket in summer

The Heatwave Guide to Surviving With a Bambus Decke

It was July, the mercury in our top-floor London flat had just breached 35 degrees, and I was sitting on the nursery floor waving a piece of Amazon delivery cardboard over my eight-month-old daughters like a desperate servant in antiquity....

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The Day I Threw Out Every Plastic Plate in My House

There was spaghetti sauce on the ceiling. I'm still not entirely sure how the physics of it worked, but my oldestβ€”who is the cautionary tale for 90% of my parenting decisionsβ€”had just execute a flawless, unprovoked karate kick to the...

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Premature baby wearing organic size 44 wrap bodysuit in NICU

Why Preemie Size 44 Clothes Actually Matter for NICU Graduates

My mother-in-law told me to just roll up the sleeves on standard newborn clothes to save money. A mom in my peanut app group proudly shared that she bought doll outfits from a local toy store. The exhausted resident on...

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