Notes from the first year
Five questions that come up in every household stocking a room, answered with the catalogue open rather than in the abstract.
When to stop using it
The three signals that end a bouncer, a swing, or a floor seat, and why the printed weight limit is usually the last one to arrive.
Swing or bouncer
The mechanical difference between a motorized swing and a wire bouncer, and which one earns its floor space in which kind of room.
Gear in a small apartment
How to choose baby gear when the floor space is measured in feet: folding frames, narrow footprints, and the pieces that do two jobs.
What a newborn actually needs
A short list for the first weeks, and the longer list of gear that can wait until the child can hold their own head up.
Washing covers and trays
Which covers unhook for the washing machine, which trays go in the sink, and the parts that quietly cannot be washed at all.