From the category archives:

Furniture and Bedding

Nursing in comfort

November 30, 2009

My son is now nearly two months old and yes, I do man­age to nurse him. He takes ages to get full up, so I sit a LOT… I try to walk about nurs­ing him some­times, but it isn’t always a good time or a good idea… So, I have to sit com­fort­able when he […]

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An Attractive, Affordable Step Stool for Toddlers

October 7, 2009

I’ve got back prob­lems, and it was always a pain, lit­er­ally, to hold my son over the sink to brush his teeth and wash his face and hands.  In the begin­ning, I used a wash cloth to clean him off and just picked him up to let him spit out the tooth­paste, but the older […]

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Rice's Cups Full of Hope

January 16, 2009

While look­ing for cute, high-quality, melamine dishes to use as tod­dler table­ware, I ran across a com­pany in Den­mark not only mak­ing fab­u­lous cups, plates, bowls and more, but that also has a con­science, Rice. Their prod­ucts are designed in Den­mark, then man­u­fac­tured in third world coun­tries by employ­ees who are treated fairly and are […]

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Mutsy EasyGrow Review and Discount

January 6, 2009

Some­where between the ages of twenty months and two years, my son decided that shov­ing smushed-up green peas and sticky banana goo into the vinyl crevices of our high chair was his favorite form of per­sonal expres­sion. We used the Chicco Polly, which served us well for more than a year, but as soon as […]

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Mr. Bobbles Travel Crib Sheets

November 24, 2008

We are devoted users of our travel crib. My son slept in it from his first night at home, in the bassinet insert at the foot of our bed. (Well, osten­si­bly he slept, but I remem­ber noth­ing about that because if he was asleep, so was I.) We hauled it from coun­try to coun­try, on […]

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Odenwaelder Babynest

November 16, 2008

Last year while in DC over the Christ­mas hol­i­days, we received a lot of com­ments on how warm and snug­gly Oliver looked in his stroller bag.  The stroller bag is a pretty com­mon thing in Ger­many and the rest of Europe, so I thought I’d intro­duce you to the com­pany that pro­duces the baby stroller […]

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Bemz: Giving your Ikea sofa new life

September 5, 2008

When I first moved to Ger­many, we bought a nice, plush, rich-purple-fabric-swathed sofa. This was pre-baby and pre-dog. It is now a slightly less nice, plush, pur­ple sofa cov­ered in drool, spit up, juice, and cookie crumbs. I wish it was as easy for us as it was for a cou­ple of friends of ours […]

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Design Spotlight: byBo design

August 13, 2008

File this under Things I Would Buy if Money wasn’t a Con­sid­er­a­tion. These chang­ing tables are the work of Swedish designer Bo Ekström and are not for the budget-conscious. Accord­ing to DaddyTypes.com, the fold-up chang­ing table is 280 Euro. Oh, but they are so beau­ti­ful. No idea where this is avail­able for pur­chase, I suppose […]

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