Topic: having a baby

I’m Still Not Comfortable As A Mother

I'm Still Not Comfortable As A Mother

Since suffering through that impossibly difficult first year with a challenging baby, I have never really allowed myself to get into a groove as a mother. This isn’t a sob story about how kids constantly change and ruin your perfectly laid plans. I gave up those expectations years ago. I have learned to really go with the flow in practice. Yet in my mind, I find myself always waiting for the other shoe to drop. Four years and two kids later – despite many more good days than bad – I constantly wonder “when is it going to be like that again?” More »

I Can’t Believe People Would Actually Dare To Call My Children ‘Illegitimate’

I Canât Believe People Would Actually Dare To Call My Children 'Illegitimate'

As regular readers of my posts know, I have two different children from two different fathers and I have never tied the knot. I CHOOSE to live MY life as a non-wife. But what makes me so furious that I want to actually throw my laptop across the room are when readers have the nerve to call my children “illegitimate,” a word I haven’t ever uttered. Ever.

If anyone came up to me and said, “Your children are BASTARDS and illegitimate,” I would punch them in the face and gladly take the jail time. More »

Kate Middleton Wasted $450 On A Moses Basket For The Heir, Or Else Her Dirty Socks

Kate Middleton Wasted $450 On A Moses Basket For The Heir, Or Else Her Dirty Socks

We are officially on Royal Birth Watch due to the fact that Kate Middleton only has about three months to go before the little princeling (or princess, but I am thinking this heir shall be a boy-child, and I think we need a Mommyish betting pool on this)  is set to arrive and Kate has started nesting! I love the term nesting! I am not pregnant but I am also nesting, and by nesting I mean I keep buying really pretty tea towels and reading mashed potato recipes! Kate is nesting my going with her mum (Yes, I said “mum” because if I cannot afford affectations whilst writing about royalty, when can I?) baby shopping and she stopped by a chichi baby store in South Kensington called Blue Almonds where she purchased a moses basket for £295. More »

Recovering Mom Wonders About The Breast Milk Impacts Of Doing Blow In A Bathroom Stall

Recovering Mom Wonders About The Breast Milk Impacts Of Doing Blow In A Bathroom Stall

Motherhood and addiction is a daytime segment that has been crafted before. Since it still seems to be culturally startling that mothers can possess the same array of complexities like addiction, stress, and mental health struggles as the childless, the formula never fails to make the morning talk show circuit. Nevertheless, during a segment on Jowita Bydlowska’s memoir, Drunk Mom, the interviewer didn’t waste any time getting to the whiplash-inducing cocaine and breastfeeding sound bite. More »

Anonymous Mom: I Wish I Had Accidentally Gotten Pregnant

Anonymous Mom: I Wish I Had Accidentally Gotten Pregnant

When I was 17, I was in love with a boy who was my entire world. He was a few years older and enlisted in the military, going off to boot camp and serving in far away places throughout his military career. Meanwhile I finished high school and enrolled in college, trying to continue my life while writing daily letters, awaiting intermittent phone calls and widely spaced visits in person. At the time, I thought that he would eventually get out of the military, return home to me and then we would finally get married and raise a family. I was too young and naive to fully grasp what that plan truly encompassed. More »

Being A Stepmother Has Made Me Want To Be A Biological Mother

Being A Stepmother Has Made Me Want To Be A Biological Mother

I met my husband’s children about a month into our romantic relationship. It was a bit soon, in case you’re wondering. They’d never met any of the other women he dated and viewed me with the kind of suspicion that either rendered them rude or mute in my presence. As empathetic as I felt, “Why are you always here?” is not a question that endears a child to anyone, especially when you’ve only met them three times and have taken care to make sure they’ve seen their dad alone in between those visits. More »

Report On Unmarried Hetero Heathens Touts Cohabitation As ‘A Step Toward Marriage’ And ‘Alternative To Marriage’

Report On Unmarried Hetero Heathens Touts Cohabitation As 'A Step Toward Marriage' And 'Alternative To Marriage'

Everyone cry for what is quickly becoming the new normal in the United States. It used to be that Natalie Portman strutting around the Oscars with her pregnant belly and her fiancé was enough to ruffle some people’s feathers. Now, it’s not only the common scenario for a lot of women — but it appears to be working out. For now.

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Twinning: ‘Mommy And Me’ Classes Are A Bust

Twinning: 'Mommy And Me' Classes Are A Bust

First of all, don’t be disappointed if you’re not allowed to sign up. Sad as it sounds, many classes such as baby gym classes (like Gymboree) and swimming lessons have a one adult to one baby requirement. This works out for the stay-at-home-mom with a live-in nanny, women with partners who can take time off, or women with agreeable relatives living nearby. But it’s not such a great deal for the rest of us.

One of my friends hired a babysitter to come to baby-gym classes with her, but personally if I’m paying for a babysitter, I’m going shopping or out to dinner. More »

If You Have Your Baby Before Your 25th Birthday, They’ll Live Forever — Or At Least To Be 100

If You Have Your Baby Before Your 25th Birthday, They'll Live Forever -- Or At Least To Be 100

A surprisingly definitive new study is out and it might make you think twice about waiting until your mid-30s to have that first baby. Dr Leonid Gavrilov, co-author of the study and Principal Investigator of the NIH research project at NORC at the University of Chicago, says that if you want your child to live to be 100, you’re going to want to have them before you turn 25. Given how late most people are waiting to have kids these days, looks like we might not have many people hitting triple-digits in future generations. More »

Vanessa Lachey Beat The ‘Baby Blues’ With A One Republic Blast Fest & Visit To Starbucks

Vanessa Lachey Beat The 'Baby Blues' With A One Republic Blast Fest & Visit To Starbucks

Vanessa Lachey got real candid with her bout of “baby blues” following the birth of son Camden John. The mother of one let her fans — as well as Us Weekly and People magazine — in on a bumpy period right after the tot was born. On her personal blog, Vanessa Lachey says she eventually overcame the sadness by hopping in the car and heading to Starbucks — among other things. Hey, whatever works, mommy! More »

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