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CN: mention of postpartum depression/suicidality. Generally, in my experience, people often get so excited about a new baby, that they forget that postpartum women need doting on, too.

Do you want people to for-sure panic? Tell them not to panic.

We are taught to fear birth from early on in our lives, and the way it’s portrayed for entertainment’s sake plays a huge, disturbing role in that.

I was lucky I didn’t have a c-section. I was lucky he was born, healthy and huge at 10+ pounds, with two hefty pushes. I was lucky. I sobbed anyway.

Why would we ever want to stop doing this . . . ?

When you openly deride poor/sick/incarcerated people who have access to nutritious and delicious food, you set us all up for failure.

Walmart abused a pregnant employee and subsequently fired her. But what exactly were Candis Riggins' rights to begin with?

According to new research, a type of hysterectomy performed on 50,000 women a year could spread cancerous cells.