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Why Serena Williams matters, now more than ever

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Serena has arguably done as much for working moms in the past year as she’s done for tennis in the past decade. By Mary Pflum Peterson

July 12, 2018 Culture

I want a second baby, but my husband doesn’t

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He can’t reconcile where we’d find the time, money and energy. I feel like we’d figure it out, the way we did with the first. By Abigail Rasminsky

November 30, 2017 Parenting Challenges

Is it my fault when my kids get sick?

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Are we to blame for our children’s frailties? The easy response is of course not. The honest answer is yes and no. By Nan Mooney

November 1, 2017 Parenting Challenges

On opting out and not having it all

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Having a kid before establishing a career was part luck and part madness. By Lauren Apfel

October 6, 2017 Culture

The unfeathering of the nest as my son leaves for college

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I want him out in the world. But this process—the leaving process—is excruciating.
By Emily Franklin

August 24, 2017 Family

Learning how to talk to my ovaries

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So why is it you want a baby, my therapist asks. Love, I answer.
By Bethany Marcel

May 16, 2017 Parenting Challenges

How to handle it when IVF takes over your life

drawing of IVF
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More than my body and my schedule, IVF took over my mind.
By Belle Boggs

April 17, 2017 Books, Parenting Challenges

How to know when one child is enough

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“We’re happy, the three of us, aren’t we?” I asked my husband.
By Leslie Kendall Dye

April 12, 2017 Parenting Challenges

What we neglect when the children are young

view of a blue-framed window and wooden table with a bowl and foliage on it
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Nobody told me while my house was falling apart that eventually I would start to see clearly again.
By Lauren Apfel

February 22, 2017 Family, Parenting Challenges

In the moment of miscarriage

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I can’t imagine spreading my legs and letting doctors make quick work of this loss.
By Nicole Piasecki

January 12, 2017 Parenting Challenges

The journey of pregnancy after miscarriage

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The #IHadAMiscarriage campaign was launched to de-stigmatize pregnancy loss.
By Jessica Zucker

October 13, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

An ultrasound of a beating heart, at last

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By the time we left China, it felt like he was ours, wholly and completely. And he is. But he is not.
By Kelly Westhoff

September 27, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

There’s the birth, and there’s the baby

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Any guilt or reservation about a “failed” birth plan was replaced by an unwavering commitment to my son.
By Stephanie Noll

August 8, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

Fertility is not a competitive sport

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I was ashamed of my pregnancy losses. I felt I had been kicked out of some elite club of women with impeccably functioning wombs.
By Stephanie Sprenger

July 21, 2016 Parenting Challenges

Mom after miscarriage

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After infertility, she’s not the parent she thought she’d be.
By Amy Klein

July 12, 2016 Parenting Challenges

Talking to my son about abortion

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One of the hardest parts of parenting is deciding when to let your children come to their own conclusions and when to steer them down a certain path, in the name of transmitting values.
By Lauren Apfel

June 27, 2016 Culture

Listening to other people’s teens

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The chance to remember myself at that age, in a way that I often don’t when I wrangle with my own teens, was illuminating.
By Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser

June 20, 2016 Family

How motherhood made me a feminist

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Being a mother made me a feminist, it brought me face to face with ugly truths about society I would have rather not seen before.
By Lyz Lenz

June 6, 2016 Culture

Poor Your Soul: a Q&A

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What makes this an exceptional book is that it always steers its eye away from self-pity and toward a greater understanding of love and acceptance.
Abigail Rasminsky and Mira Ptacin

June 6, 2016 Books

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