At the American Academy of Pediatricians conference, doctors discussed a resolution allowing them to deny treatment to patients who refuse to vaccinate.
From the first hours of motherhood, you are told to care deeply about poop. Year One Black poop from your baby should not be horrifying — or a sign of him eating blueberries and/or black jellybeans.
The work of mothers never ends. The hours are long, the circumstances nearly impossible. We see you out there, mamas. Your efforts do not go unnoticed.
For the first time in my online adult life, I was experiencing something privately without making a show of it and without needing to know if anyone noticed or liked me experiencing it.
The struggle is real, adulting is hard. Even the simplest of chores, like taking the dry cleaning to the cleaners, can turn into a weeks-long project fail.
Excitement filled the car but my expectations were low. Since I'd never slept in a sleeping bag on the hard ground, in a tent, I didn't know how I'd fare.
While we often feel that the earliest years of mothering are the most stressful, research shows that it's the middle school years that are the hardest.
