Tessa Lindqvist

I’m Tessa Lindqvist, a former product safety engineer who now puts baby gear through the kind of testing marketing departments hope you’ll never do. Strollers meet curbs, high chairs meet spaghetti, and car seats meet the installation manual — repeatedly. As a mom of one (with strong opinions about cup holders), I review only what my family and our test parents actually use. If it’s on my recommended list, it earned its place.

Posts

We Tested 7 Strollers on Real City Streets — Here's the One We'd Buy

Cobblestones, curbs, café doorways, and one uncooperative bus ramp. A former safety engineer puts seven popular …

June 25, 2026

The Minimalist Nursery: 12 Things You Actually Need

The baby industry has a list of two hundred essentials. Babies disagree. A gear reviewer and recovering over-buyer cuts …

March 15, 2026