7 genius, edgy-cool diaper cakes that are making us change our minds about diaper cakes.
I’m skeptical of anything that masquerades as cake and doesn’t taste like cake. Slash isn’t edible at all. So naturally diaper cakes — those sculptural designs made out of diapers and used as centerpieces at baby showers to make people oh and...
Ceci n’est pas un nursing cover.
Calling all moms supporting nursing moms! My favorite baby shower gift of the year is here! You have to check out this wonderful Boobs baby blanket created by Lot 801 in partnership with Gravel & Gold, which is a perfect way to honor the #dropthecover campaign....
Burt’s Bees Baby Bee Box: A shower gift that gives back beautifully
Heads up, friends! Burt’s Bees Organic has just created the ultimate practical new-mom gift, and I cannot resist it. Not only does their brand-new Baby Bee Box include all the essentials a new mom would covet for her baby, but with your purchase, the company...
Glow-in-the-dark pacifiers for Halloween! Or you know, baby’s first rave.
On Halloween, bigger kids may get all the action when it comes to face paint, fake fangs, multicolored hair, creepy costumes, and spooky masks. But glow-in-the-dark pacifiers? These suckers (ha) are babies-only. Related: 7 easy, creative baby Halloween costumes you...
You won’t believe the features built into these 3 new jaw-dropping luxury strollers.
The new fancypants luxury strollers that have come out recently have me thinking, whoa. How did I survive my own baby’s years with a regular old, not expensive, stroller? I mean, these new luxury strollers push themselves (literally). They monitor themselves for...
Baby gear obsessed? The gorgeous fall DockATot designs are like works of art.
Not knowing what kind of sleeping arrangements you’ll encounter when you’re on vacation is one of the hardest parts of taking a trip with a toddler. Will the hotel have a crib? Will it be disgusting? Will your toddler “sleep” between you and...
An edgy diaper bag alternative for dads not down with the diaper bag thing.
I really like the collection of Brooklyn Backpacks with laptop sleeve from California indie biz, Rareform They’re made from upcycled billboards (yay, eco-friendly!) with typography and graphics that give them an edgy look and feel, and ensuring no two are the...
The Ruth Bader Ginsburg baby bib: For when dissent means no peas, please.
As she was browsing the Doylestown Art Festival today (lucky!), Kristen sent me a photo of these Ruth Bader Ginsburg baby bibs — or Ruth Baby Ginsburg bibs, as they’re called by maker Becky Garcia Dirtsa Studio — and I died right here and now....
Women Who Dared blocks are the feminist baby gift we’ve been waiting for.
The accomplishments of women build on one other. We couldn’t have a female presidential candidate today, for instance, if suffragettes like Elizabeth Stanton hadn’t demanded the right to vote, and pioneers like Shirley Chisholm hadn’t broken that...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz!
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