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  1. StoryChoosing a name four times: how we learnt to love a nameSüleyman Taha, Muammer Esat, Hamza Bera, Mehmet Emde. We chose a name for four boys and learnt the same lesson each time: a name isn’t found on a list, it’s found by calling it out loud. On the quiet side of naming a baby — with a note on why Turkish children so often carry two names.
  2. StoryEmbroidery and remembering: what happens when a name is written in threadEvery cloth in my grandmother’s dowry chest had two letters stitched into the corner, and they can still be read today. Why embroidery is back in twenty-somethings’ handbags, and why a baby’s name written with a needle lands so differently from one typed on a screen.
  3. StoryThe first letter on the blanket: where a baby’s name gets written firstAfter the hospital wristband, most Turkish homes write a baby’s name in one place first: the corner of the blanket. Why there? A mother-in-law with an embroidery hoop, a needle that refuses to hurry, and a single lopsided letter found in a cupboard years later.
  4. ProductName Night LightA gentle glow that spells out your little one’s name. Warm light for night feeds, bedtime stories and the quiet hours in between.
  5. Gift guideBaby shower gifts: what to give a mother-to-be before the baby arrivesA baby shower celebrates the mother, not yet the baby. Here is how to choose a gift for a child who may not even have a name yet, how to make the mother feel seen, and what to avoid.
  6. ProductBirth Announcement PlaqueName, birth date, time and first measurements — the first facts of a new life, kept for good on a plaque that fits in the palm of your hand.
  7. ProductEmbroidered Blanket LabelA name embroidered in soft thread, ready to sew onto the blanket that goes everywhere with them.
  8. ProductFirst Curl Keepsake BoxA small lidded box with their name on top — for the first curl, the first booties and the tiny things you can’t bear to lose.
  9. ProductGrandparent Thank-You GiftA small personalised keepsake with the baby’s name and birth date, for the grandparents who were there from the very first day.
  10. ProductHand & Footprint FrameTheir hand and foot at one week old, framed with their name and the date. They’ll never be that small again.
  11. ProductNursery Door SignTheir name in gentle script, hung on the door of the room you spent months getting ready.
  12. StoryCandlelight evenings: the small flame that turns a flat into a homeOur first winter in İstanbul, with the boxes still unpacked, I lit a candle and the flat felt like ours for the first time. Why candle-making has moved into everyone’s kitchen, and what one small flame does to an evening.
  13. StoryOne stitch, one breath: why knitting is the calmest thing we doIn hospital waiting rooms, on bus seats, in front of the evening news — women in Türkiye were always knitting something. Now the needles are back in young hands, and doctors are saying what grandmothers already knew: knitting calms you down.
  14. StoryStones from the Black Sea: painting a memory of the shoreFive sisters growing up in Zonguldak always had pockets full of pebbles. Years later we paint those pebbles in İstanbul with four boys. Why stone painting has become so loved, how a stone the size of your palm turns into a keepsake, and how to begin at the kitchen table.
  15. StoryThe first forty days: Türkiye’s oldest newborn customs, explained gentlyA red ribbon on the door handle, a crimson sherbet for visitors, forty pebbles counted into a basin of water. In Anatolia a baby’s first forty days have always run on their own calendar. Where these customs come from, why families still keep them, and what a new mother — from here or elsewhere — can take from them.
  16. StoryThe handprint in plaster: they’ll never be this small againWhen my third son was a week old we pressed his palm into a handful of plaster. That hand is bigger than mine now — but the print is still a week old. Why plaster and clay make such tender keepsakes, and how to start at home.
  17. StoryThe sewing machine is back — and it was never just a hobbySewing classes in Dublin sell out months ahead, New York declares sewing “cool again”, and across Türkiye the old Singers are coming down from the attic. What’s behind the quiet comeback — and where does a new mother find room for it?
  18. StoryThe smell of wood: a carpenter’s shop in Zonguldak and four boys’ first sandpaperThe best smell of my childhood was the sawdust drifting out of the carpenter’s shop at the top of our street. Years later I found it again at our kitchen table in İstanbul, in the hands of four boys holding sandpaper for the first time. Why wood is the most patient craft of all.

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