And yet, I find a way to make it there, with whatever I’ve put aside to spend, to take a few hours to try on the dozens of ...

Then there are body image-related red flags: a child restricting certain food groups or hiding food in their rooms; a teacher sharing that a kid is routinely skipping lunch; or a parent noticing ...

I found the books interesting to thumb through, but I didn’t read them, busy as I was with a curriculum of my own. There was the book, recommended by a midwife, that suggested I radically change ...

Why? Because change is hard. Transitions are hard. New things bring up both fear and excitement, but the former can often take over, as our brains are wired to look for dangers. Adults feel that ...

Elizabeth*, 32, has been taking stimulants since the third grade. During her first pregnancy in 2020, her doctor told her she had to stop taking her medication, and she struggled, but felt she had ...

I learned at an early age that tears were something to apologize for, to be ashamed of, to hide. I learned that my sadness was not as welcomed as my laughter. It wasn’t so much what was said to ...

Also known as “false labor,” prodromal labor is a condition during which a woman suffers extremely painful, labor-like contractions but her cervix doesn’t dilate. If you aren’t familiar ...

The world was unprepared for the mom bloggers. With their unedited, stream-of-consciousness posts about brownies and episiotomies and how to get poop stains out of your stroller, the women writing ...

I turn away from my husband and his snoring, using my back to try to block out the light from my phone. It is my favorite time of day: 10 p.m., in bed, secretly scrolling my favorite app, NYTimes ...

It was 6 p.m., about a month into my son’s kindergarten year, when an email popped up telling me there’d be a lockdown drill at school the next day. I responded in a fugue state, replying to ...

Birth is portal work, my friend Julia had told me over Vietnamese food months earlier, back when I was pregnant and just starting to draft my birth plan. I thought I knew what she meant — the ...

I woke up that morning giddy. Something big was happening in our family that day but for once it was not happening to me. I drove us to the urologist’s office, which happened to be in the same ...