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new motherhood

On being a scientist and a mother at the same time

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Nursing my son to sleep, I contemplated Marie Curie. By Nadja Cech

November 17, 2022 Culture

When postpartum depression lasts beyond new motherhood

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Moms are supposed to rebound. Some of us don’t. By Christy Tending

September 1, 2022 Parenting Challenges

Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself

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Motherwell talks to Jungian psychologist Lisa Marchiano about her new book, and motherhood as a journey of self-discovery.

April 27, 2022 Books, Parenting Challenges

Learning to walk (alone) again. This time without my kids.

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I was a morning walker well before I was a mother. By Emma Wilkins

March 17, 2022 Family

Why pregnant women feel the need to keep secrets

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We tell the world about the lives that live, but we hold inside the lives that are lost. By Adrian Rose

March 7, 2022 Culture, Family

As a NICU mother, it felt like I’d failed my newborn son

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Time stands still in the NICU. Days are long, nights are lonely, and you feel useless. By Tania Lorena Rivera

December 8, 2021 Family

Q&A: Mom Brain

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Motherhood changes the way we think and feel about ourselves. We talked to Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco about how to cope with this upheaval.

September 9, 2021 Books

Capturing the final moments of pregnancy in a picture

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It’s not just a celebrity thing. I know lots of mothers who have struck this pose. By Andrea Firth

August 23, 2021 Family

One mother’s quest for perfection as an OCD parent

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All my OCD has become focused on making unpredictable toddlers happy and I am exhausted. By Jenny Leon

May 25, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

The things I tell myself one year after giving birth

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In the past twelve months you have become Mama and Mommy and Mum, but you are also still you. By Emily Brisse

February 3, 2021 Family

How pandemic life is like life with a newborn

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The internet says this stage can last weeks or months or more. You think to yourself, those experts must be wrong because I can’t take another day. By Samantha Gratton

November 17, 2020 Family, Parenting Challenges

This is how judging people during COVID feels like new motherhood

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When I was a new mom, it was easier to shame and blame than sit with the fear that I had made the wrong choice. By Caroline Grobler-Tanner

October 15, 2020 Parenting Challenges

My breast cancer made me reevaluate breastfeeding

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After my diagnosis, there was no question in anyone’s mind that my daughter was going to be bottle-fed. By Jenny Leon

September 23, 2020 Family, Parenting Challenges

Why I don’t like the phrase “mommy brain”

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Behind every “mommy brain” story, there’s a fuller picture. Modern motherhood makes impossible demands. By Nicole Graev Lipson

September 21, 2020 Family

Quarantined in motherhood

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There have been many moments when I have simply broken down, walked upstairs and fallen face-first on my bed. By Tara Mandarano

July 10, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

I was a mom who couldn’t stop drinking. But then I did.

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I heard the baby crying again, I didn’t get up. I was too hungover. By Victoria Vanstone

May 18, 2020 Family, 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

My preoccupation with sick kids on Instagram

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Maybe following these accounts is a form of penance for the guilt of being one of the lucky ones who got to take her baby home. By Justine Feron

February 11, 2020 Family

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

Poetry | Flowers in odd numbers

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If my mother is not here, who will show up to bring me flowers when I am vacuumed out,
cells gone, clean, neat, dark, unseeded? By Emily Franklin

November 13, 2019 Family

Letting go of the baby things we don’t need

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They all took turns as babies, then toddlers, riding in the stroller’s deep reclining seat, casually enjoying Cheerios or clutching a favorite toy as I bounced behind. By Cara McDonough

November 12, 2019 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

How my baby changed the way I look in the mirror

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My eyes focus on my abdomen, the bulge pregnancy has left behind. My inner critic opens her mouth…but then I take in the whole picture. By Chrissie Dunham

September 12, 2019 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

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

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