How I Got Bamboo-zled by Baby Clothes
So soft, so stretchy, so breathable? “Bamboo” is just an old fabric rebranded as something new and magical.
To be pregnant for the first time is to be the world’s most anxious, needy, and ignorant consumer all at once. Good luck buying a pile of stuff whose uses are still hypothetical to you! What, for instance, is the best sleep sack? When I was four months pregnant and still barely aware of the existence of sleep sacks, a mom giving recommendations handed me one made of bamboo. “Feel—soooo soft,” she said. I reached out to caress, and it really was soooo soft. This was my introduction to the cult of bamboo.
Over the next several months, gifts of bamboo clothing from more experienced parent friends started to arrive, and I became indoctrinated.