By Ziba Kashef, Editor at Large There’s yet another decision that isn’t so cut and dried: saving your child’s cord blood. This update should clear things up When Jenny Levine was pregnant with her first child, her ob/gyn gave her an info packet with a brochure on umbilical …
Can you make your child smarter before she’s born? Here’s what the experts are saying about the latest trends in prenatal education By Brooke Lea Foster When Elizabeth Lam was three months pregnant, she visited her local Babies“R”Us. The kindergarten teacher and first-time mom …
Until recently (really until Alan was born), I was convinced that I only wanted girls, that girls were the superior sex and that I would build an all-female army of feisty, intelligent, super hot women out of my daughters who would one day rule the world Lysistrata-style. Shockingly, I was …
The other day a friend and I were talking about someone we know and how her very thin mother always pressures her to lose weight. I was being my usual judgmental self and was denouncing that mother with fervor, until it occurred to me that I kind of got it. It would never berate or insult my …
Last week a friend told me that she was fired from a daycare after only one day. Apparently her son had “too much separation anxiety.” I felt for her. But my own experience has been so different. Sam can’t wait to get me out the door. “Bye mommy,” she calls when I leave her at the …
By Sandra Hume During my first pregnancy, I went headlong into information overload. I googled. I quizzed other parents. Books from Amazon spilled out of my mailbox. The more I tried to absorb, the clearer it was how much I didn’t know. Like about breastfeeding. And where the baby would sleep. …
We are best friends. We are sparring partners. Nobody gets me like he does. He has given me infinite freedom to explore myself and never held me back from anything, always supporting me, always listening. My parents always told me that the worst times in their 25-year marriage came after I was …
One of the hardest parts of having children is accepting that they will grow. Each stage is so beautiful and yet so fleeting. I swear, I have a different child week to week. My daughter went from this: To this: In what seemed like a moment. With her, it has been exciting to …
I recently saw the movie “Marley and Me.” In it, a writer loves his insane, scraggly, difficult dog for more than a decade in spite of all his faults. To most, the movie is sad. To me? It is devastating. This is not because it is not schmaltzy. It is. This is also not because it is …
