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I made a split-second decision to run into the store. I had no idea it would consume the next years of my life
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Gareth Ellis
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C-Sections, Ventouse & Forceps Delivery by Lisa Clegg, The Blissful Baby Expert
By Rachel Pieh Jones A young American mom in Djibouti said her husband recently asked what she wanted and she looked at him, all crazy. “What do I want? I don’t know what I want. I only know what the baby wants. Do I have wants? Do I get to have wants?” Maybe not now, I thought. But one day,
Official site of Vanessa Lachey features her insights on love, marriage to Nick Lachey, food, fashion and parenting in her fun and practical style.
Does breastfeeding = drop in women's status? An exploration of the paradoxes around women, work and breastfeeding, by Paige Hall Smith.
Doulas are not, cannot, and should not be saviors. Instead, we can, and should, do all we can to ensure that a woman's power, agency, and autonomy remain in her own hands.
A physician and nurse practitioner discuss the emerging role of medicals professionals who ease the death process.
Do you think the world would be a better place without the "mommy wars"? That we need to just support one another and accept that every choice is valid and equal? I call bullshit on the whole thing.
To the fan I lost yesterday: I don't owe you an explanation, but I thought I'd offer one anyway. I do this more for your sake than mine. You see, maybe, as you later suggested, I was in a bad mood....
Two weeks ago, Bahar Gholipour of LiveScience reported the findings of a new study that reveal that breastfeeding is associated with upward class mobility, but you probably didn't read it.
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[Author's Note: I seek to reclaim a wider understanding of birth in society-at-large and in human spirituality. Birth mysteries have been invariably silenced, lost, or co-opted towards metaphors th...
Protect and survive BAD though it has been, the AIDS epidemic would have been a great deal worse but for a strange and unexplained quirk. Infected mothers, it was...
There are multiple flaws in the conclusions that have been drawn from a recent study comparing outcomes between breastfed and formula-fed siblings. But even if the study results are accurate, the t...
Breastfeeding is leaving us. I walked into the living room a couple weeks ago and her bags were by the door. I ran to the room where Logan, my 4-year-old, was playing. “Logan!” I shouted, “D...
Attached to my left hip and resting snuggly in his carrier, Taber spent the afternoon with me exploring downtown Philadelphia. At one point, we took refuge from the winter chill in a Catholic church.
Often the lessons of parenting young children come too late. You do the best you can with the first kid, ushering him through the early stages of childhood, by instinct and expert advice, with varying degrees of success.
Milk composition differs based on a baby's sex and a mother's wealth
Seeing the phrase “MY CBAC” in print can occasionally have the power to be painfully debilitating. I so strongly yearned for a VBAC.
You are not a failure if you don’t hand-mash organic baby purees. It is okay to make things easier for yourself.
Hilarious post by Katherine Collette on competitive mothering.
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