Years After My Twins’ Premature Birth, I Wish Their March Birthday Came in May
My twin daughters Ella and Maya turned 18 in March, and over the last couple of months I’ve been conscious of the passing of time until this month, May, the month they should have arrived. March 13,...
View ArticleThese Dads Are Expecting a Baby After Miscarriage–Here’s Their Story
All families come in different shapes and sizes and kinds–but that doesn’t mean the love is any less. For one married couple who are dads to two kids, this couldn’t be more true–and a lesson for those...
View ArticleThe Phrase I Repeat When Motherhood Feels Impossibly Hard
I’m lying in the recovery room, hours after my C-section. My baby is far away, in a different ward altogether, and I want him. “But your hemoglobin-” “But your dizziness-” They won’t let me go, these...
View ArticleThis 12-Year-Old Girl Helped Mom Deliver Her Baby Brother
We often hear about spouses helping deliver babies–and being there to hold their new baby for the first time–and feeling that incredible skin-to-skin contact. Well, recently, a sister was able to help...
View ArticleA Newborn’s Gender Was Declared Non-Binary For the First Time
Normally when babies are born, they are assigned a gender. One baby, however, was born without being assigned a gender in Canada. Their name is Searyl Atli. In Searyl’s case, their birth certificate...
View ArticleWhat I Wish People Understood About Fertility Struggles
I came out (again) as someone struggling with fertility about a month ago. I’d posted on Facebook that I was frustrated with my Reproductive Endocrinologist (RE) and that I loved my acupuncturist. A...
View ArticleThe Midwives Who Help Trans & Non-Binary Parents Give Birth
When it comes to giving birth, and being supported during that time by medical professionals, expectant parents face a world full of binaries, like being a woman or a man, mom or dad. What about the...
View ArticleMarijuana & Pregnancy: What You Need to Know
When it comes to the food and substances consumed while pregnant, there is a lot of criticism, mythology and taboo regarding what’s healthy for both mom and fetus. Alcohol has long been studied with...
View ArticleGiving Birth Delivered a New and Different Me
I was in a hospital gown, backside exposed, tears and shock on my face, fluids running down my legs. Every part of my being was resisting the experience. The pain had become excruciating and I was...
View ArticleThis Is What Happens to Women When Abortion is Outlawed
Being a woman is dangerous in other countries with regressive laws about reproductive health. Take the infuriating, heartbreaking case of 19-year-old Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez Cruz, this is all too...
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French Moms Have It Way Better Than U.S. Moms
French moms have the most children in Western Europe–because it’s possible for them to, thanks to government . Quartz released a report showing recent data for the trends for babies born in the EU in...
View ArticleThe US Is Facing an OB-GYN Shortage
It’s been a doozy for women’s reproductive health services the past six or so months (since Umbridge, er, Trump has been president). Just this week, there’s another GOP bill that would block faculty at...
View ArticleC-Sections Aren’t the Devil
When other women share their birth stories, I can’t relate. My water never broke, I never had a non-Braxton-Hicks contraction, I never had my membranes stripped, I wasn’t induced and I never labored–in...
View ArticleTransgender Man Gives Birth to a Baby Boy
It’s official: Trystan Reese, a transgender man, has given birth to a baby boy with his partner Biff Chaplow. Their son, Leo Murray Chaplow, was born on July 14. The couple, who have been together for...
View ArticleThis Is What I Missed Most From Before I Was a Mom
This weekend, I officiated my brother’s wedding. It was an incredible, exhilarating, romantic, and emotional few days filled with naches: joy, family and friend reunions, dancing and a few moments of...
View ArticleThis Heroic Doctor Delivered a Baby While About to Give Birth Herself
You know what badass is? A doctor who delivers a baby when she’s supposed to be delivering her own. This is what happened to Kentucky obstetrician Dr. Amanda Hess last week, according to People. She...
View ArticleHow You Know You Have a Severe Case Of Preggo Brain
Ok “Momnesia,” I thought you were a myth, but this pregnancy I really feel you. In fact, I think I have gotten stupider—or wait, should I be saying “more stupid”? Argh, do you see the problem here? I...
View ArticleAndy Samberg & Joanna Newsom Welcome Baby Girl
It’s a surprise baby! Comedian Andy Samberg and his wife, musician Joanna Newsom, just welcomed a baby girl, their first child, together. Most people didn’t even realize the couple were expecting, as...
View ArticleShouting Erupts in Court Over Woman Forced to Give Birth in Jail
This week, a shouting match erupted between a Chicago country judge and prosecutor over whether a pregnant woman should have been jailed without bail for more than a month this summer—so long that she...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Is Taking 2 Months of Paternity Leave After Birth of Second...
With the imminent birth of his second daughter with wife Priscilla Chan in the next few months, Facebook CEO Zuckerberg announced he’ll be taking two months of paternity leave. In an Instagram and...
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