No, not standards relating to web design and browsers. Standards in clothing. In other words, I’m wondering what crackheads determine sizing on baby clothing and why it is that there can’t just be ONE size no matter who designed it.

Breanna is almost eight weeks. She’ll be two months old in eight more days. She got some nice fuzzy pajamas for Christmas that I washed the other day. They’re all size 0-3 months. I put the first pair on tonight and then had to remove them because I couldn’t snap them all the way up and Breanna couldn’t even completely straighten her legs and looked like she had been horseback riding all day when I held her up.

My favorite clothes for babies are the ones that indicate weight instead of months since not all babies will grow the same. Still, even those don’t always scream accuracy. More than once I had to toss aside something that I tried to put on Hayley as a baby that should have theoretically fit based on her weight but really didn’t even come close.

This goes beyond actual clothes too, because I’ve found that diaper weight guidelines are nothing more than a very generous guess. I found Hayley would outgrow her diapers when she was as much as two pounds below the suggested weight limit, as evidenced by frequent leaking, and though Breanna is still in size one diapers she did outgrow the newborns before hitting the limit too.

And since I’ve gone off on a diaper tangent anyway, I would like to mention that I hate Huggies diapers SO VERY MUCH that I am very tempted to write them a nasty letter just to tell them how VERY MUCH I hate them. All the leaks from other diaper brands combined couldn’t add up to the Huggies blowouts, all of which seem to happen straight up the back so that you have to remove all clothing and pretty much offer up a sponge bath to do what should have been a simple diaper change. This was true with Hayley and also with Breanna and I was so happy when we ran out of Huggies. If anyone brings me Huggies from here on out, I’m taking the package into the bathroom and setting it on fire. I’ll stick with the store brand diapers which have not caused any problems with either kid.

I have diaper rage. And I’m still disappointed that the pajamas Breanna never wore didn’t fit even once since they were nice bright colors. Alas.

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(I was asked to answer my own questions. Favorite joke: How do you catch a unique bird? Unique up on it! Honorable mention: What do you call cheese that doesn’t belong to you? Nacho cheese! Where I would love to travel: Prague and Moscow. The color of my favorite underwear: Black, but I’ll settle for anything that fits these days. Celebrity I have a crush on: Not actually a celebrity, just the character he plays, but I’m pretty keen on Horatio Caine these days, and with that confession Amanda just disowned me as her sister.)