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Things I am grateful for right now

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We have plenty of coffee in our cupboard. What’s not in bloom has buds, promises, waiting. By Kara Gebhart Uhl

May 1, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Finding out your baby has special needs during a pandemic

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Shelter in place has become a cocoon where our family has slowly let this diagnosis of Down syndrome sink in. By Maggie Shafer

April 15, 2020 Culture, Family

Forgiving myself as a mother, especially now

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My kids are used to my loud, Jewish-mom complaining—but not this unkindness. Not this anxiety-fueled rage. By Hannah Grieco

April 1, 2020 Culture, Family, Parenting Challenges

The irrational hope of an infertile woman

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No matter how many times I failed, there wasn’t a month that went by that Hope didn’t convince me I was pregnant. By Amy Gallo Ryan

March 5, 2020 Parenting Challenges

To my friend in need, I’m here for you

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Look up, look around and listen. Here I am. Down the street or a phone call away. By Lisa Michelle

February 26, 2020 Parenting Challenges

Accepting my mom friendships for what they are

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What brings this group of mothers together beyond the common thread of parenthood and our kids’ friendships? By Lauran Bell

February 5, 2020 Culture

Parenting by the clock, but learning how to live in the moment

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Now if something takes too long, it means we’re late for something else. By Fiona Leary Boucher

February 4, 2020 Culture

It’s my birthday. This is why I’m making my own cake.

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I’d rather take the time to create something I want than to compromise. In a small, sugared way, I see it as a rebellion. By Shannon Williams

January 23, 2020 Culture

The irony of my love of language

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I breathe words like oxygen. They are everywhere. Except in the mouth of my child. By Leah Moore

January 22, 2020 Parenting Challenges

Struggling to create a new life after my divorce

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On Friday nights, I would rush through my daughter’s bedtime books, slurring words and skipping full pages. By Shelley Mann Hite

January 14, 2020 Culture

My child wanted to be a boy

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I’m surprised by how many moms give me the thumbs-up for “letting” my daughter be a pirate. By Mimi Lemay

December 11, 2019 Books, Culture

Perspective | Why I don’t use positive adoption language

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“Birth mom” does not make me feel like a baby machine without feelings, but it does clarify my role in her life. By Adrian Collins

November 25, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Waiting for our family’s adoption to be complete

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What if birth certificates reflected reality? I imagined three spaces, one for our daughter’s biological mother and two for us. By Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser

November 19, 2019 Culture, Family

How my two very different playgroups saved me

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The truth is I dreaded my Friday playgroup as much as I craved it. I stood apart from the other mothers in ways I couldn’t quite communicate or change. By Laura G. Owens

November 6, 2019 Culture, Family

The importance of tending to friendships

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As parents of older kids, socializing with other moms was apparently no longer part of the job description. By Anne Helena

October 30, 2019 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Lice helped my family in a time of sorrow

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I’d been craving more one-on-one time with my kids for so long and now, thanks to those pesky parasites, I had it. By Kate Lemery

September 18, 2019 Culture, Family

After the baby, a marriage lost then found

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We would take a million pictures of our child but none of us. Forget to schedule date nights because we never needed them before. By Elizabeth Newdom

September 5, 2019 Culture, Family

What my frozen embryos mean to me

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They are part of my life’s topography. Tiny specks on my map of choices, loves and losses, hurts and heartbreak. By Jordan Namerow

July 31, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Mothers are experts at the art of reinvention

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“No offense Mom,” my oldest said to me a few years ago. “But you could have been so much more.” By Laura Pochintesta

July 9, 2019 Family

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

What does it mean to be a “real” mother?

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My daughter collapses after an endless tantrum and says, I wish I wasn’t adopted. By Tanya Friedman

May 30, 2019 Family

How my baby restores me at the end of the work day

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I arrive at the office. I mime professional. Am I a professional? For months my identity was pure and unquestioned: mother of an infant. By Janelle Ward

May 10, 2019 Culture, Family

What is your biggest parenting challenge right now?

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We asked, you answered. In three words.

May 9, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Finding the breath in the day-to-day routine of parenthood

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As parents sometimes it’s a struggle to carve out even a few minutes to breathe. By Steph Auteri

April 30, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Deciding what to do with our one frozen embryo

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This year is different. Maybe it’s because I’ve had the miscarriages. Maybe it’s because we both recently turned 42. By Angela Kidd

April 16, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

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