Prepacked hospital bags? Reader Q&A
Can you recommend a service that offers hospital bags with wonderful goodies for a new mom? I loved the goodies inside the one I received last year and now my daughter uses the bag as her ‘overnight’ bag for all our trips. -Christina We’ve searched...
The diaper bag for fall (with emphasis on THE)
All this back to school shopping for my daughter has gotten in the mood for fall. And for me, that means pulling out my favorite boots and looking for a brand new diaper bag. We’re already huge fans of the Baby Kaed bags from mom Lavinia Lobo, and now her new...
Diaper bags that look like nothing of the sort. Which seems to be the point these days.
It’s hard to believe a few short years ago, a diaper bag looked like (gasp) a diaper bag. Today, diaper bags are allowed to look like clutches, like hobo bags, like totes – pretty much anything besides something actually designed to help you manage the...
Cool Mom Picks loves Psychobaby!
If we just so happened to win the lottery, one of the first places we’d hit on a spending spree would probably be Psychobaby, a Chicago-based boutique that sports some of the hippest clothes, shoes, and gifts for the alternative set. We found them way back when...
The Cool Mom Picks bag of the year turns diaper bag
Both Liz and I espoused the greatness of Crystalyn Kae’s Soiree bag – so much so that it was our pick for Cool Mom Picks Bag of the Year in 2008. So when we found out that she made a few changes to her original design to turn it into a diaper bag, well we...
Go from diaper bag to diaper bag without another diaper bag
Considering my bag addiction, now infamous with my husband and our credit card company if not all of you, I can’t believe I’m about to tell you how to avoid buying another diaper bag. Thanks to the Pishposh Mommy quick zip bag, you can turn any...
The urban daddy diaper bag. Really, just let him have this one.
Whenever I buy a diaper bag I try to make it as gender-neutral as possible so my husband feels comfortable using it as well. It never occurred to me to just get him his own so that I could have my cute and girlie diaper bag all to myself. Fortunately he’s...
Designer diaper bags get a floral pick-me-up
I was just thinking it’s been a while since I saw any fun new diaper bags to get excited over, and then CMP fave Hedvig Bourbon goes and reads my mind and creates well, some fun new diaper bags to get excited over. The trendy Brooklyn designer’s trademark...
Fanny pack 2.0
When I first saw the hands-free bags from Jupiter Freedom, I figured they were mostly for athletic types and young hipsters, and not for a busy mom of three who’s sort of married to her diaper bag. But then I gave it a whirl one afternoon when I was out at the...
