motherhood

Having a premature birth destroyed my long-held conviction that health problems are largely preventable or at least explainable, Read...

[I]t’s been said that distracted parenting can be detrimental to both children and their moms, to blame for everything from stunted child development to language delays, even more irritated parents.  Read...

When I met my breast pump, I was on the rebound from a breastfeeding relationship that hadn’t turned out the way I hoped

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Like accidentally seeing your parents naked, ambivalence about motherhood makes people uncomfortable.

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Mom’s aging, my schedule, my son’s cooking (my cooking!), our health, our lives — and the list unfurls like a dropped ball of yarn, rolling out of reach.

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Mothers in the medical field got me into support groups, onto meds, and back into life again. I am so grateful for mothers in medicine.

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Motherhood didn’t pan out the way I anticipated, not even a little bit. It was so much more electrifying and terrifying and amazing than I ever imagined.

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This straggler struggle is weighing on me! That is, the struggle of having one straggler child left at home, and I’m wondering if it will ever get better.

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