We Want Your Birth Stories
It’s Labor Day weekend in here in the U.S., which means we have one thing on the mind: birth! Yes, yes, we know Labor Day is about that *other* kind of labor, but it seems as good a time as any to...
View ArticleThis Mom Proves She Is the Chillest Person Ever with Viral Birth Video
Birth is one of the hardest things a woman can experience. It involves a lot of patience, blood, pain, and time. Did we mention pain…and time? Well, for midwife Lisa Marie Sanchez Oxenham, this was...
View ArticleWhat I Realized About Birth Plans After Actually Doing It
At 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 17, 2015, I threw up in our bathroom—our all white, pristine, newly-renovated bathroom. “OK, now it’s time to go to the hospital,” my husband said. And I thought,...
View ArticleThis Company Wants Its Employees to Bring Their Crying Babies to Work Every Day
Balancing the demands of work and having a new baby is seriously exhausting and stressful–especially since your body is still healing from childbirth and adjusting to a new schedule. This is why I love...
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When You Give Birth During a Hurricane & There’s No Power
It should have been the easiest birth—it was my second child, I knew the sex this time around, and I had a scheduled C-section on Election Day 2012 when I was to be 39 weeks and 2 days, waiting a few...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s 6 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave Is a Joke
I love the United States of America. I’ve spent lots of time in your great country, as a student and a tourist, sometimes a little of both. You have some of the greatest public institutions in the...
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Adam Levine & Behati Prinsloo Welcome Their First Child
The Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine and his wife and model Behati Prinsloo, welcomed their first child, daughter Dusty Rose Levine, today. After two years of dating, 37-year-old Levine married...
View ArticleThis Is the First Baby Born with 3 Biological Parents
Life has officially become a science fiction movie. Apparently, the first baby has been born from a controversial new technique that combines DNA from three people—the mother, the father, and an egg...
View ArticleDad with Cancer Moves From ICU to Delivery Room for Son’s Birth
Birth stories are always emotional (because birth is emotional) but this one is especially moving–and will simultaneously break and warm your heart all at once. Earlier this month, Colorado birth...
View ArticleThis 60-Year-Old Woman Just Gave Birth for the First Time
Claudette Cook held her twins for the first time after a precautionary C-section at age 60. She became pregnant earlier this year with the help of in vitro fertilization and two donor eggs. Now she is...
View ArticleHaving a Baby Is So Much Easier in Israel & This Is Why
I knew I was lucky, but in the wake of Trump’s “maternity leave plan,” I realized just how lucky I am. After the birth of my first and second children in the US, I was able to take 12 weeks of paid...
View ArticleBritish Mom Had a Three-Week Orgasm After Every Birth
Who knew giving birth could feel so good? For one woman, birth was a very pleasurable experience not once, but four times, as she claims to have had what felt like a three-week orgasm following each...
View ArticleThis Badass Mom Stopped at the Polls to Vote While In Labor
While it’s easy to complain about the inconvenience of having to vote in between going to work, dropping your kids off at school (and picking them up), among all the other things you do each day (like...
View ArticleLaughing Gas Is Now Offered to Women Giving Birth At Some Hospitals
There’s apparently a new option for women giving birth who don’t want to get an epidural, but who also don’t want to be in excruciating pain for hours and hours (basically what feels like forever)....
View ArticleAshton Kutcher and Mila Kunis Welcome a Son
We have some big news for you: Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are parents again. The former “That ’70s Show” costars welcomed their second child–a son–this past Wednesday. This means their 2-year-old...
View ArticleCongress Passes Postpartum Depression Legislation That Will Change Your Life...
Did you realize that over 400,000 women in the U.S. suffer from postpartum depression every year? That’s a lot of people. What’s even worse is the fact that only 15% percent of those moms get...
View ArticleI’m Catholic, But This Is Why I Promised God I’d Raise My Kids Jewish
When I learned my husband’s company was relocating us from New Jersey to London during my energy-filled second trimester, I was elated. We made a bucket list and travelled nearly every weekend to...
View ArticleMy Fight for an Epidural in Amsterdam
My husband and I have been living in Amsterdam for quite some time. Six years for him, three for me. We are both French, from Paris, but Amsterdam is our home. The quality of life here is excellent,...
View ArticlePink Welcomes Her Second Child with Husband Carey Hart
Yesterday, Pink announced the birth of her second child with husband Carey Hart on Instagram, sharing a heartwarming photo of herself holding her newborn. She shared the baby’s name in the caption:...
View ArticleOn Not Really Being Ready for Baby #3
“So, are you ready?” is the question du jour—or however you say “of the month” in French. After eight months of being largely distracted by my daily routine with daughters #1 and #2, my due date’s fast...
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