Tagged: baby

Burning Questions

We spent this past Saturday morning running some errands as a family, and about three blocks from the last one, we heard a soft cough from the backseat… followed by a volcano of baby vomit spewing forth from our 21 month old son. We’ve been talking a lot here at weeSpring about...

The best thing that happened to you since Amazon Prime…

We’re not exaggerating when we say we buy everything online.  Especially in the early days of parenthood, if we couldn’t order it one-handed from an iPhone while nursing a newborn at 3am, we just didn’t buy it. So we were pretty excited to learn that Diapers.com (and all its affiliated...

Once upon a (toxic) mattress.

In late December, the Chicago Tribune conducted an investigation into the use of flame retardants in crib mattresses.  Astonishingly, they found chlorinated tris—a likely carcinogen banned from children’s pajamas in 1977—in mattresses marketed under the Babies R Us, Foundations, and Angeles brands.    We were duly alarmed back in September...

Milestones!

Not those kind of milestones… weeSpring is now just six weeks old — but already has more than 7,500 product ratings.  (And we were right: just about nine months passed between taking the leap on this thing, and it coming into the world.) We’ve already hit one of our goals...

On the eleventh day of Christmas…

On the eleventh day of Christmas…

On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… Eleven packs of diapers, Ten BPA-free bottles, Nine bamboo blankies, Eight wooden blocks, Seven rubber duckies, Six tubes of Desitin, Five teething rings! Four Baby Mum Mums, Three hooded towels, Two pacifiers… And a giraffe named So-o-o-phie. Happy...

An ode to the Nosefrida.

weeSpring isn’t about experts (which is good, because we’re not experts), but this is a story worth sharing: Once, when we were on vacation, we drove 100 miles for a Nosefrida, because the baby had a cold, and we’d left ours at home.  That’s pretty much the best product endorsement...