May. 25 2015
Louise Miner gave birth to her first daughter in 2002. Her second daughter arrived 10 years later. By then a lot more than the decade had changed.
“My second baby was way messier than my first. She’s really cute, but she’s stinky and she’s dirty and she makes huge messes in the crib,” Ms. Miner says.
Skyrocketing laundry loads were only the beginning of the Ottawa mom’s frustration. With her first child, she’d used a crib with a front panel that clipped down, making it easy for the petite Ms. Miner to get in and out and change the sheets.
By the time baby two came along, that model had all but disappeared from the market, she says, a logistical inconvenience that affected more than her décor.
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