Mothering a newborn is being involuntarily tethered to an endless game of hot potato where "cold" entails varying volumes...

It feels difficult to convince anyone of the virtues of a home birth experience spanning a full Monday-Friday workweek and lasting over...

The nursery is ready! It's complete with Montessori floor bed, mobile, and wall paintings.  Props to Jess Smiley for the cool framed ...

Sometimes I look around on a subway car and think to myself, "Everyone on this train was born!" And then I think about all of t...

My name is Laura Barlow Leavitt and I am a Mormon, who willfully and joyfully married an ex-Mormon atheist. We were both orthodox and rebe...

Guys, I keep having nothing to write cuz I am in pre-baby bliss. Sometimes I think about writing something on this blog and all I can think ...

Here's the news: I want to give birth at home with a midwife. After months of not even feeling sure how I felt about medicated v. unm...