baby

This doesn't surprise me — people don't even like to talk about breastfeeding. Adding in sex? Forget it.

Parents this awesome just remind me how I don't even have a baby book for 4 out of 5 of my children.

Work. Play. Sleep. Repeat. Thanks, bed. You are the furniture MVP in this house.

Eventually, I accepted the need to just let things go (like keeping up with cleaning), and embrace all the chaos that new motherhood brings. So, here are some tips from people who know best, plus one that I think I learned the hard way.

After gaining as much as forty pounds and pushing a cantaloupe out my vagina, I wondered: will my body ever be the same?

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Whether this is news to you, seemingly irrelevant to you, or deeply personal to your experience, this truth remains that statistically speaking, one in every four pregnancies will end in miscarriage. Some of you are vaguely familiar with this, many of you have suffered this loss yourselves, and the likelihood is high that almost all of you know someone who’s lost a child in utero, whether or not they’ve ever spoken publicl about it.

In theory, the concept of a new mom not being able to answer your phone calls and/or texts right away should be self-explanatory...