Smart Sheets
It’s exhausting enough to drag yourself out of bed for the 2am feeding, but add a leaky-diaper induced crib sheet change and nighttime becomes painful. Or, you could get yourself the Clouds and Stars super genius zip sheet.Setting it up...De-Bugging the Baby Carriage
Considering I’m not living in the Amazon, or even the deep south, I never entirely understood the appeal of those mosquito nets that go over the baby carriage. And then, last week, my baby got bit by a tick. Yikes. She’s fine, but I can only imagine what...
Practically Fashionable Baby Blankets
We’ve written on occasion about our aversion to baby blankets that are too pretty to use. To say nothing of being spit up on, peed on, caught in the rain and soaked with other substances of unknown origin. All-weather blankets are a godsend, but they’re...
Clean as a European Whistle
You’ve heard about bathing your baby to relax them before bedtime, right? Not necessarily so. My older daughter screamed bloody murder at bath time until she was well past her first birthday. Not so relaxing. How I wish we’d had the Spa Baby European Style...
Baby Book, Minus the Book Part
I failed Baby Book 101. I started with good intentions: She rolled over! Must write this down in the baby book! Then something would distract me, and I’d forget until the next milestone occurred. Which I’d forget to record as well. I wish I had...
Two Tinas Are Better Than One
I love the idea of a stunning high-end baby blanket as the perfect shower gift, except for one thing: What do you do with a blanket that’s too pretty to use? Enter Two Tinas, a small company just starting to make it big (hello Nordstrom!) with their gorgeous but...
Play Mats Fit For Trust Fund Babies
Well it’s about time that someone created the high-end, fancy pants, gorgeous version of all those ubiquitous fugly play mats. Here the honor goes to Plain Mary, creator of the Kensington Baby Play Mat. And it is indeed very fancy. Did I mention it’s...
Chiara Kruza Maternity: One Shirt Flatters All
With my first two kids, I collected a pile of mediocre maternity clothes, not one of which I could wear from start to finish. Even my favorite pieces had to be retired after a couple of months – or when I hit the "sausage stuffed in...
How Do You Know if the Bath Water Is Too Hot? The Whale Will Tell You.
I am one of those sad NYC moms with a single bathroom to accommodate our family of four. My greatest dream in life, besides the one about the full scholarships to college for both kids, is a second bathroom – one which I could fill with all that fun goofy kid...
The Incredible, Invisible Bib
I have long come to grips with the necessity of the bib. I have not, however, been swayed by the bib to match the outfit concept. To me, the bib and the outfit are entirely individual entities.Until now, that is, courtesy of the matching bib sets from Bibs and Match....
Green Up, Green Up, Everybody Green Up
If you’re not yet familiar with Method Home, you haven’t been in my bathroom where the pink grapefruit liquid soap is a permanent fixture.(Don’t worry, you’re not missing much not having been to my bathroom.) Their nifty line of household...
