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The beauty and tumult of a very big family

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With six children, you learn to spread anxiety thinly over everyone until it ceases to have much impact. By Jodi Bartle

November 17, 2021 Parenting Challenges

The night my daughter was born

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I always thought depression came like a fog. Postpartum depression came on differently, like an 18-wheel truck slamming into a cement wall. By Laura Cline

June 25, 2019 Parenting Challenges

Let all mothers in, it’s hard enough to be a parent

I worry with the other moms about whether we’re good at it. Raising another person. By Marni Berger

June 20, 2019 Family

A mother and daughter look back on a 38-year-old picture

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One family photo, two different perspectives. By Pat Alexandro and Amy Alexandro Jones

October 15, 2018 Family

When you can only handle one child—and that’s okay

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How could I do it all again? The uncomfortable pregnancy, the brutal birth, the dark newborn days. By Joy Netanya

July 30, 2018 Parenting Challenges

The myth of the instant family

drawing of a mother and child cuddling on a bed
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I love my baby, but I miss my relationship with my husband terribly.
By Abigail Rasminsky

August 1, 2017 Family, Parenting Challenges

With new life comes a fear of death

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Kids—they break you wide open and expose parts you didn’t even know could feel pain.
By Katie Rose Guest Pryal

May 22, 2017 Parenting Challenges

The first photo of my premature baby

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Photographs suggested a future, a future in which we would look back at this moment, but a future where our baby might be gone.
By Yvonne Spence

November 22, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

Measuring the baby’s ears

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My unborn kid had a 1 in 214 chance of having Down syndrome. Those seemed like pretty good odds.
By Amy Silverman

August 30, 2016 Books, Parenting Challenges

The existential crisis of motherhood

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My entire life had become an existential paradox: I could endure neither my love for the baby nor the idea that he could be lost to me. By Catherine Newman

May 4, 2016 Family
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