“We buy the swaddles, swings, ring-slings, nipple balms, perineal soaks. We build this army of baby gear, falsely comforted by this militia of newborn-stage survival stuff. And then the baby arrives.”
Sometimes, Preparing For Postpartum Isn’t Enough (And That’s Okay)
‘I hate Bre.’ If you’re a parent, you know how deep those words cut. I was broken.’: Bio, bonus mom shares journey, ‘It’s not easy, but it’s WORTH IT!’
“My friend spilled that he had five children. On the day we planned to meet, my daycare unexpectedly closed. ‘Bring Landry along!’ he said. I knew I had met my future husband and my son’s future bonus dad.”
‘You don’t belong.’ I can’t tell my children I understand how they feel, and it destroys me.’: Mom to biracial, neurodiverse family talks dealing with racism, ableism
“You can be married to a Korean man and have biracial children and still have internal racial biases. You can have a neurodivergent child and still be ableist. I can’t escape my privileges, but I can try to learn and work from them.”
‘As the social worker drove away, Tonya waved goodbye with a sad look on her face. ‘Let’s do it, let’s adopt.’: Couple adopt preteen from foster care, ‘3 months old or 17 years old, ALL children deserve a forever family’
“When people say we blessed Tonya by adopting her, I tell them it’s the other way around. She has taught us how to love and care unconditionally.”
I Have A Rare Genetic Disorder Called Oculofaciocardiodental Syndrome, But I’m Embracing My Divine Uniqueness
“I’m one in a million, literally.”
12-Year-Old Starts Nonprofit Providing Kindness For Less Fortunate In His Community
“Even with the pandemic hitting nationwide, that has not stopped me from doing what I love the most, helping the less fortunate. I will always spread kindness anyway I can. It’s just glued in my heart.”
‘I ripped off the dress that was now too tight. Then, out of rage, I ripped it in half, tears pouring down my face.’: Mom accepts postpartum body changes
“It’s okay to sometimes break down during postpartum. It’s okay to be sad about your transformation with each pregnancy, or to not love your postpartum body at times.”
‘He would tease me for ‘waddling across the room.’ I felt wildly inadequate and humiliated.’: Woman shares relationship with diet culture, advice for others during the holidays
“‘You can jump off the wagon now,’ they say. But the moment we wake up on January 1, we have to ‘get back on track’ with an extreme diet to ‘undo’ all the ‘bad behavior’ of the holidays.”
I Gave My Kids $7 Each, And It Started A Christmas Kindness Tradition
“We wanted our children to learn about kindness and being part of this outreach.”
‘Want 3 boys? 3, 5, and 6?’ Something was tugging on our hearts, encouraging us to take another chance.’: Mom candidly shares ‘deep love’ and heartbreak of foster care
“This time, we said goodbye to three. THREE. Losing one was hard enough, but three? A friend and fellow foster mom texted me and reminded me our kids aren’t ever really ‘ours.'”