I have eight children, seven of whom I've given birth to myself. I'm a woman and have the necessary reproductive organs to grow a child inside my womb and then…
When does a joke about moms drinking to get through motherhood - and the current coronavirus pandemic - cross the line? Is it when her friends are on the verge…
Two hospitals in the United Kingdom have instructed their nurses and midwives to start using the term "chestfeeding" instead of "breastfeeding" as they fly off the ledge of reality in…
I haven’t been “skinny” since I was a small child struggling with asthma in the 80s and early 90s. I don’t come from a family of petite people. No one…
The day I found out I was pregnant with Grace, I don’t remember being happy. I remember being terrified. Doug and I had only been married for a few months…
Read Part I of my journey with postpartum depression here. A Brief Respite Doug was a teacher and had taken some time off after Grace was born, but was now…
My baby girl is 14 today. This girl changed my life. After she was born, I suffered from terrible postpartum depression/psychosis the first year of her life. I didn’t know how to…
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