Certainly, times have changed, and perhaps mothers have more support in their roles now (in some ways), but let’s not pretend modern mothers have it easy. While out with my family one evening at a local restaurant that’s popular for its budget bites and kids’ playroom (aka entertainment so you can actually enjoy your meal […]
Pregnancy is all too often treated simply as a gateway—something to get through on the road to the real event, the baby’s birth; not as a momentous, life-altering, and emotionally and physically treacherous event in and of itself. When I was 14 weeks pregnant, my husband and I flew halfway around the world to spend […]
I promised myself I would be the opposite of everything my mother had been. It was 7am on a Saturday. I was standing in the bathroom, holding a stick and waiting for a word to appear. A little suspicion in the back of my mind had grown into a giant bubble of hope, and so […]
This originally appeared on Laurie Cunningham’s blog. Republished here with permission. After two tough pregnancies and struggling with depression, I’m finally feeling happy. So why can’t I stop waiting for the other shoe to drop? I’ll have to type fast, because Tess is asleep and I don’t know how long it will last. She’s a […]
The New York Post called Chirlane McCray, wife of New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, a ‘bad mom’ for not spending every minute with her child. Jennifer Benjamin had a few words to say about that. When I first read the attention-grabbing headline, “NYC’s first lady: I was a bad mom,” I just assumed […]
