Natural Disasters Are Increasing. Here's What Happens If You Go Into Labor During One.

Emma Chao/Romper; Getty When Hurricane Milton made landfall along Florida's Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 9, hospitals were hunkered down statewide. Even those on the East Coast prepared for the worst. The hospital Baptist Health is situated on the bank of the...

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Women Are Scared & Scrapping Their Baby Plans Under Trump

“I knew it would be bad, I just didn’t know it would all happen so fast,” Hannah Baker*, a 32-year-old mother of one in the southeastern United States, tells me. “I had already made up my mind back in the summer that if he got elected, we were a one-and-done family. I think my partner was hoping I’d...

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My Baby's Scowl Made Him A Local Celebrity & Yes He Got It From Me

Lauren Bates/Moment/Getty Images In the delirium of the newborn months, my partner, Megan, and I found ourselves completely bereft of anything interesting to say, apart from running commentary on our one subject and singular focus: the baby. Even in our rare moments without said baby, we mostly talked...

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Have We Lost The Plot On Valentine’s Day?

lisegagne/E+/Getty Images Dear Good Enough Parent, Have we lost the plot on Valentine’s Day? I felt like a pro when I bought two (2) bags of Nerds Gummy Clusters™ (primo sh*t, I might add) a full week ahead of time but got home to my family immediately clarifying that each bag only had 24 and each...

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Would Group Prenatal Care Make New Mothers Less Lonely?

Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/DigitalVision/Getty Images When I was pregnant with my first baby, I enrolled us in the multi-evening childbirth education course offered by our HMO, where my husband and I sat in a little circle with other couples and took notes when Dot, the doula leading the course, lectured...

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How To Make Space For A Child’s Grief

VeeStudio89/E+/Getty Images When I was about 10 years old, a boy who attended my church died. His name was Antonio and we sang in the youth choir together. He drowned at Blue Lake Park on the 4th of July. I remember singing at his funeral, I remember the pained look on his mother’s face as the undertaker...

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