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The Follow-Up

The Trial Collection by Sidebar Society
The Obsessive Investigator: A Field Guide
You build the timeline. You notice the detail everyone else scrolled past. A field guide to the personality type, in five exhibits. Read more...
Postpartum gift guide from Sidebar Society
How to Choose a Gift for a New Mother (Why Month 3 Beats Week 1)
Everyone sends something in week one. Almost nobody sends anything in month three. A practical guide to timing, price, and what actually helps. Read more...
The Fine Print collection by Sidebar Society
What They Say, and What the Fourth Trimester Actually Is
Ten designs pairing an old proverb with the truth underneath it. What to send a new mother that is not more baby things. Read more...
What the $4 Actually Does
What the $4 Actually Does
$4.00 from every item in The Fine Print goes to Postpartum Support International. A flat amount, on every product in the collection. Here is the whole argument, without a backstory... Read more...
Postpartum Didn't Have a Name When Grandma Had Us
Postpartum Didn't Have a Name When Grandma Had Us
Ask a grandmother about the year after her babies were born and she will often go quiet, and then say something like: "It was a hard year. We didn't talk... Read more...
How to Check On a New Mom (and Actually Mean It)
How to Check On a New Mom (and Actually Mean It)
Everyone visits the baby. Almost nobody visits the mother. If you have a new mom in your life — a daughter, a sister, a friend, a neighbor — here is... Read more...