The first time we spent the night together, bodies intertwined, I slept more soundly than I had in months. I awoke refreshed, relaxed, and guilty. I never cuddle my usual sleeping partner in bed ...

And yet, I find a way to make it there, with whatever I’ve put aside to spend, to take a few hours to try on the dozens of ...

I found the books interesting to thumb through, but I didn’t read them, busy as I was with a curriculum of my own. There was the book, recommended by a midwife, that suggested I radically change ...

Today, Lepucki still doesn’t use location tracking for her kids, even though her son is now 13 and roams around on his own more and more. “My husband and I have really tried — and it’s not ...

I was candid about my milk coming in, looking pregnant for days following my loss, the bone-chilling, all-day anxiety. I think it helped keep shame at bay.

Inspired by the poems Bob wrote for and with Erin and her brother Nate when they were small children, Zilot takes its title from a word Nate invented years ago. (Erin is now 22 and Nate 24.) One ...

I asked my daughter what “good at the internet” means to her, and she explained this boy knows which websites to use and how to phrase a search so the results make sense. The reverence with ...

My parents split when I was 10, which flooded me with relief. I was hopeful that Mean Scary Dad was just Dad who Was Married to Mom, and that going forward, he’d change. Instead, he treated ...

For many couples, sex takes a back burner when kids arrive. If we weren’t people who feel connection through sex, maybe we would have just let it go. But we are, and I missed feeling a tether to ...

Mental health conditions account for over 20% of pregnancy-related deaths in this country. I knew it wouldn’t be fair to my family to take the risk.

As a child of the ’80s, I spent my summer breaks either babysitting or being babysat. Teen sitters held a mythical status for me. I was in awe of the neighbor who walked me to the library ...

The world was unprepared for the mom bloggers. With their unedited, stream-of-consciousness posts about brownies and episiotomies and how to get poop stains out of your stroller, the women writing ...