10 Reflections From A First-Time NICU Mom
Never did I imagine the NICU would be where my daughter would spend the first month and three days of her life. Here’s what I learned.
Why Very Few Hungarians Are Likely To Get $30,000 For Having Three Kids
Hungary is giving couples $30,000 to have three children. But this Potemkin pronatalism isn’t going to increase Hungary’s birth rate.
‘Cribsheet’ Takes The Air Out Of Inflated Parenting Worries So You Can Enjoy Your Kids
Like her first book, economist Emily Oster’s ‘Cribsheet’ dismantles myths and pokes holes in junk science, centered on parenting for babies and toddlers ages 0 to 3.
No, Pro-lifers Don’t Want To Force Women To Birth Babies
It’s a fallacy to claim that the pro-life community seeks to force childbirth and compel women to render themselves human sacrifices for their unborn children.
Watching My Wife Give Birth Illuminated What A Miracle Life Is
I had been by my wife’s side for 12 hours as she moaned, breathed, and eventually pushed, and still I was not prepared for what seemed for all appearances to be magic.
I Was Afraid I Would Give Birth In The Car. Then It Happened
Our last baby arrived in 90 minutes. This time, I went from sleeping in bed to giving birth in a car on the side of the road, all in about an hour.
If You Think Breastfeeding Is Natural, You’re Now A Transphobe
A mother nursing her child is the strongest image of biological connection between a parent and offspring outside the womb. As such, it must be destroyed.
No Doctor Should Ever Tell Parents Abortion ‘Is An Act Of Love’
We parents of disabled children know the pain. The fear. And the pull of despair. But we also know the love. True love doesn’t take the ‘out’ provided by a ‘compassionate’ doctor.
No Matter What U.S. Birth Rates Suggest, I’m Enjoying My Third Baby So Much
Only 28 percent of women have three or more children, and 52 percent of women, according to General Social Survey data, reported their ideal family size is two children.
Fact Check: Abortion Is Not ‘The Most Safest Medical Procedure In America’
NARAL Pro-Choice America’s California state director Amy Everitt wants the world to believe that ‘abortion is the most safest medical procedure in America.’
More Than A Year After My Children’s Father Died, We’re Still Learning How To Transition
These transitions are wistful and a little frightening. But after the year we’ve had, I greet them with reverence and wonder.
10 Ways Normal Women Can Get Chrissy Teigen’s Post-Baby Body Confidence
You can be thin again after a baby without spending a lot of money or time. I know because I do it, without weird diets or self-torture. And I’m not the only one.
Why People Shouldn’t Freak Out Over Paying To Hold Their Baby After Birth
Doctors, nurses, support staff—they don’t work for free, and there is no reason they should.
6 Reasons It’s Insane to Say Men Need Maternity Leave
Maternity leave is for the purpose of helping mom recover because, last I checked, only moms give birth. The list of things they have to recover from is impressive.
10 Reasons Pregnancy Rocks
There are indeed many reasons pregnancy is a trial. Yet even amid all of these are certain benefits to this time we spend nurturing and growing our baby.
Should You Just ‘Get The Epidural’? Maybe
A recent New York Times article insists women should just get an epidural during childbirth and stop being so judgy. But really, childbirth is like the rest of parenting: you never know what will happen even if you plan.
Abortion Is Not Safer Than Giving Birth
In an attempt to prove abortion safer than childbirth, Vox compares two data points from the Centers for Disease Control that the CDC itself has said are not comparable.
Mr. President, Dads Are Parents, Too
Paternity leave is important—but government shouldn’t force it on people.
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