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How my kids helped reframe my body image during and after pregnancy

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With my breasts and belly so exaggerated, the rest of me felt diminished. By Jennie Rabinowitz

June 15, 2022 Parenting Guidance

Why I feel ambivalent about Mother’s Day

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I want the roses as much as I hate them. By Leslie Stonebraker

May 4, 2022 Parenting Challenges

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

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

3 things I learned at the CIA that helped me survive early postpartum

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It was my CIA training and experience that eventually helped alleviate some of the anxiety. By Christina Hillsberg

June 8, 2021 Books, Parenting Challenges

A stranger’s gift to me in the Phoenix airport

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It occurred to me that I would have to live with this lifeless body—my baby—inside me for the next four days. By Sarah Gundle

June 3, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

I dreamed of a boy, birthed a girl, now my child is non-binary

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I stumbled over the “they.” It felt clunky in my mouth. By Melissa Brand

May 20, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

I was pregnant when I confronted sexual violence for the first time

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It took growing another being inside of me—becoming two—to learn to truly stand up for myself. By Rebecca Kling

February 10, 2021 Culture

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

What happens to people with infertility during a pandemic?

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According to specialists, a 12-week delay won’t make the difference between someone having a baby or not. By Mimi Sager Yoskowitz

May 13, 2020 Culture, Family

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

What the women in the waiting room are thinking

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Every fertility journey is different. You never really know what somebody else is going through. By Amy Klein

April 9, 2020 Books, Family

My preoccupation with sick kids on Instagram

Sketch of premature baby drinking bottle
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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

When your sister has a miscarriage

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After bursting into tears, you text your brother-in-law: “Sorry, this is awkward, but make sure she doesn’t use a tampon for the bleeding.” By Lorren Lemmons

December 10, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

What will be the most popular baby names in 2020?

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Our favorite naming site, Nameberry, predicts next year’s hottest baby names.

December 3, 2019 Culture

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

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

First day of school, first miscarriage

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Hearing “nonviable” is heartbreaking. Having to ignore that in front of 32 smiling second graders is even harder. By Caitlin Cherry

September 10, 2019 Parenting Challenges

Seeing my complete family in the night sky

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Next to Orion’s Belt are two dimmer stars. These are the babies I lost, one before each of my sons. By Julia Pelly

March 28, 2019 Parenting Challenges

On Prince, David Bowie, and losing Baby A

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Our daughter asked good questions—what about the other baby? Were we sad? Why did it happen? By Cynthia Nuara

February 27, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

How to rekindle love after kids? Try fresh limes.

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Our married life was no longer comfortable. There was no indulgence, no whispered promises of sweet dessert. By Hannah Grieco

February 13, 2019 Parenting Challenges

I had a miscarriage. This is my story.

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If my belly was round and full of baby, would I hate my body less? This body that betrayed me. By Brittany Wren

December 3, 2018 Parenting Challenges

21 hard things about motherhood my son might never know

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When he was two, I spent mornings stuffing tubes of penne with scrambled eggs to trick him into eating something other than pasta. By Marianna Marlowe

November 29, 2018 Family

The struggle to find work-life balance in academia

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Whether to have a baby before tenure is still one of the most pressing questions for female academics. By Sarah Rivett

September 25, 2018 Culture

Perspective | Why I don’t want to know the sex of my baby

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The decision not to find out my unborn child’s sex is perhaps the most intimate and important one I have ever made. By Laine Munir

August 30, 2018 Culture, Family

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