From the category archives:
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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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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