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Book reviews, postpartum tips, and an honest account of what it's actually like to be a brand new doula. Welcome.
When the Other Parent Goes Back to Work
Quebec gives the non-birthing parent five weeks, or three on the special plan, and the weeks are not transferable, so almost everyone...
Postpartum Recovery and Support as a New Parent
You have the baby, you go home, you rest, and gradually you feel like yourself again: linear, nice sequence. That is not...
What a Postpartum Doula Really Does (and Why You Might Need One)
A postpartum doula shows up after the baby does, and stays for the weeks that follow. What that actually looks like once...
No Judgment Zone: Pain Management, Feeding Method, and Other Choices People Love to Question
The opinions never come from strangers. They come from family, from friends, from people in your entourage, and they arrive attached to...
I Swear, He’s Manipulating Me
At three in the morning, after the fifteenth careful transfer to the crib, it feels like the only explanation. Manipulation takes planning...
What people feed the postpartum body
Yorkshire, mainland China, Lebanon: the traditions agree on almost nothing except that cold food is suspect, and that a body which just...
< A Little While Later >
Most sibling advice covers the first day, the gift from the baby, the special outing. Less gets said about day four, when...
The Opinions
A parent says they are going to let the baby cry it out and the opinion rises before they have finished the...
The Water Bottle
Someone who loves you will hand you the enormous bottle with the time markers down the side and tell you your milk...
Starting Solids
Purees in 1987, baby-led weaning delivered like a religious conversion, the allergen protocol arriving unprompted in the group chat at 9pm. Nobody...