I call it ‘the breastfeeding tax’ for a reason: mastitis (along with thrush and plugged ducts) feels like the price you pay for breastfeeding. And it’s a painful one. Mastitis is an inflammation of ...

There are many things I wish someone had told me before I gave birth 429, and at the top of the list is that I would shake like I was naked in a snowstorm for an hour afterward. You’d think ...

We had flown from Vermont to Palm Springs in February. The logic was airtight. Escape the cold, get some sun, do the desert thing. As our day trip to Joshua Tree approached, I had been watching the ...

If you're juggling a career and motherhood, knowing the difference between glass balls and rubber balls puts everything into ...

If you’ve ever wondered whether your child is “on track” emotionally, you’re asking the right question — but you might be looking for the wrong signs. Emotional maturity in children isn’t about being ...

When the bell rings and summer starts, most kids are thinking about sleeping in, swim lessons, maybe a few weeks of camp. But for roughly one in five children who depend on school lunch as a primary ...

The first children's picture book about postpartum depression is here — and it's also a reminder that too many mothers are still suffering in silence. There’s a version of new motherhood that gets ...

If you read our spring equinox rituals piece back in March, first of all, thank you. Second, if you wrote that letter to your summer self, this is your friendly reminder that it’s out there somewhere, ...

If you grew up watching Denise Austin do step aerobics in a leotard on your family’s TV, you already have a sense of the household Katie Austin came from. Fitness was the backdrop of her childhood.

Nara Organics has issued a voluntary recall of all lots of its Powdered Infant Formula currently on the market, citing the potential risk of Clostridium botulinum contamination. The recall comes after ...

Every parent of toddlers and preschoolers covets the blessed sound of silence. And not like the scary oh-no-what-are-my-kids-doing-in-the-other-room silence. No, we mean the sound of your kids playing ...