My experience with late-onset postpartum depression
What I learned from postpartum depression: don’t suffer in silence, don’t think that your feelings are synonymous with failure, and recognize that post-partum depression can occur anytime in the first year after delivery.
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
Congenital heart defects can be confusing and scary, so Brooke’s compiled a few common questions and answers that may help ease your mind.
Dealing with super painful post-partum sex, aka vulvar vestibulodynia
After three frustrating years, many visits to fertility clinics that ultimately resulted in nothing, we found ourselves pregnant in the late Spring of 2009. Aside from the regular baby chaos, everything has gone extremely well. Except for one thing: sex. I can’t have it.
Losing a child who never existed: considering parenthood when you’re bipolar
Olivia and her husband planned for a child, only to find out that having Olivia go off her bipolar meds wasn’t an option they could take. Now, they’re moving in a new path toward parenthood.
A photo essay about a girl and her chair
Michelle’s step-daughter has a disability and spends most of her time in a wheelchair. This is a photo essay about Snail’s chair.
Awesomesauce DILF Who Does It All
Simply put? Kellen is awesome and rocks my socks off. I know, I’m totally biased. But over the last few years, he’s turned out to be the most amazing dad, husband, best friend and over-all dream man I could have ever asked for. He’s silly, sweet, strong, adores our son (and me), hilarious, smart and […]
Everybody deals with death differently: my advice for how to talk to those of us who’ve lost a child
At the dentist, getting my nails done, meeting new people, often times the fact that I have a son who has passed away (how’s that one sound?) ends up coming up in the conversation. I worry about it often because it’s not something most people are prepared to handle talking about. Should you be overly sympathetic? Ignore it?
Facing the challenge of having epilepsy and being a parent
Epilepsy and pregnancy are two situations that don’t easily go hand-in-hand. Ashley has been diagnosed with epilepsy for seven years, and recently gave birth to her son, Xavier.