newborn

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

Newborn life...when that bliss wears off. Not all at once, and not in every way. But the bliss becomes less blinding. Everything returns to real life.

Failure to thrive. It’s an awful term. All I heard was failure. In my mind, over and over, you’ve failed him, you’ve failed him.

This doesn't surprise me — people don't even like to talk about breastfeeding. Adding in sex? Forget it.

Work. Play. Sleep. Repeat. Thanks, bed. You are the furniture MVP in this house.

After gaining as much as forty pounds and pushing a cantaloupe out my vagina, I wondered: will my body ever be the same?

So what are some meditation hacks you can do during and between countless diaper changes and feedings?

Anybody who has lived through those early days of parenthood (and let’s be totally forthright, here… those seasoned parents, too) knows e