And what about the parents giving birth in the labor delivery unit, or coming in for needed C-sections or inductions? The ...

I want more children, but I’m terrified of experiencing another miscarriage and being left to go septic or something if they ...

“Now she can go to college,” I joked to a friend of mine when I finally managed to procure for my 5-month-old daughter a Lovevery Play Gym. More expensive than another other baby gym on the ...

Around 4PM every evening, my mood descends perfectly in time with the sun. I am creatively depleted from a day of trying to write, my husband usually still has a few more hours of work to do, and ...

In retrospect, the butter incident may have been a sign. Eight weeks after giving birth to her daughter, Kylee Tingstrom of Jacksonville, Florida, got an IUD, and didn’t think much of it; she ...

Last year, a letter in the medical journal Pediatrics argued that the frightening decline in mental health among American kids can be partly explained by a lack of independent play. When kids don ...

Managing the transition back to work after having a kid is both a learned skill and an identity shift: You are becoming a working parent. And though we don’t have a lot of public conversations ...

Six months into the pandemic, with school closed and social outings canceled, my 5-year-old son was getting every single meal from our kitchen and he was eating fewer foods than ever. Gone were ...

Ten months after her husband, Hal, died, Rebecca Woolf posted on Instagram that she was in a new relationship. She hadn’t meant to “‘meet someone’ meet someone,” as she put it.

On my first date with Rob, the man who would become my husband, I told him I wanted children. My dream was to be a stay-at-home dad and to be married. “I want four or six, preferably six ...

Whatever parenting Kool-Aid we’re drinking is laced with our own self-destruction.