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The Mom Who Didn’t Know She Was Pregnant Until She Was in Labor

“A wave of pain hit me so badly that I catapulted up from the recliner, landing with my back arched like a cat ready to attack.” By Yolanda Wikiel

Fertility

parenting Why Would Anyone Look for a Sperm Donor on Facebook? Meet the women logging on for fresh semen and the men who get their kicks offering their seed. By Anya Kamenetz
celebrity Selling Sunset’s Mary Fitzgerald Is Having Uterine Surgery The reality star says she made plans for the procedure after suffering a septic miscarriage. By Emily Leibert

fertility What If You Hadn’t Frozen Your Eggs? For many patients, egg freezing provides the comfort of possibility. But for some, the procedure can be so uncomfortable it no longer feels worth it. By Rae Nudson
health ‘All That Money Can Only Give You a Chance, Not a Guarantee’ Three women who traveled abroad to undergo fertility treatments share what they spent and how it went. By Charlotte Lytton

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Pregnancy

celebrity Cardi B Says She Had a ‘Freak Accident’ While Pregnant She says a fall landed her in the hospital and made her fear she would lose her baby. By Tariro Mzezewa
career ‘How Do I Announce My Pregnancy at Work?’ It’s okay if your plans aren’t set in stone yet. By Alison Green

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Babies

how i got this baby The Mom Who Went Back to Work in Construction 9 Days After Giving Birth “That first year of my daughter’s life, trying to keep my business afloat and dealing with the pressures of COVID, was the worst year of my life.” By Yolanda Wikiel
how i got this baby The Single Dad Who Had a Baby Via Surrogate “I always say I’m doing this solo, not alone. Alone sounds sad. Solo sounds like more of an adventure.” By Kristen Mascia

how i got this baby The Mom Who Got Pregnant While on Birth Control at Age 46 “I didn’t think about how much work it was going to be until I was all up in it. And then, suddenly, I was like, What did I do?” By Yolanda Wikiel
family What Day-care Workers and Preschool Teachers Really Think About Their Jobs Six women get candid on dwindling enrollment, priced-out parents, and crying kids. By Anya Kamenetz

Kids

encounter What Does It Take to Get a Rich Kid Into Kindergarten? Sophie Brickman’s novel is about the absurdity of New York’s private-school-admissions process. Much of it seems pulled directly from her own life. By Katie Arnold-Ratliff
advice ‘Will Ratting Out My Son’s Bully Make Things Worse?’ There’s no guarantee it will stop, but at least you’ll know you’ve done everything in your power to try to help your kid. By Emily Gould

parenting Summer Child Care Is a Special Kind of Hell Thoughts and prayers to any parents who didn’t make camp plans in February. Also the parents who did. By Amil Niazi
parenting Passed Out on Gummies All across America, kids are going to bed with a story, a kiss, and a potent dose of melatonin. Is there anything wrong with that? By Juno DeMelo

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Teens

teens Meet the Teen Boys Getting Perms So long, shaggy boy-band hair. Hello, alpaca mops. By Jennifer G. Sullivan
teens How Are You Auramaxxing? On TikTok, teens — mostly boys — have come up with a new, potentially troubling way to win literal cool points. By Laura Pitcher

parenting The Transgender Family Handbook 144 specific suggestions for how to be a supportive parent to your trans kid, according to trans young people and their loved ones.
parenting The Last Kid in Ninth Grade Without an iPhone They’re not in the group chat. But they’re not social pariahs either. By Liz Krieger

Parenting Advice

celebrity Paris Hilton Has One Word for Critics of Her Parenting And for once, it’s not sliving. By Emily Leibert
parenting Emily Oster Softens Up In her new book, The Unexpected, the economist turned parenting expert examines life-threatening pregnancy complications that defy optimization. By Miranda Rake

parenting Talking to My Kids About the Unbearable When cruelty is inescapable, what are we supposed to tell our children? By Amil Niazi
profile Park Slope Parents Is Old Enough to Order a Drink Susan Fox wanted to build a community. She never expected to birth an archetype. By Emily Gould

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Parenting Trends

niche drama What’s the Deal With the Viral Influencer Couple Who ‘Boycotted’ Father’s Day? A Matt and Abby Howard primer. By Allie Jones
parenting I Don’t Need Your Opinion on My Kid’s Screen Time Talking about how you’ll parent someday is one thing. Surviving a kid’s tantrum so bad you question every choice you’ve ever made is another. By Amil Niazi

parenting The Rise of the Accidentally Permissive Parent Some moms and dads who strive to be “gentle parents” unknowingly turn into indulgent ones, largely because gentle parenting is just too hard. By Elizabeth Passarella
parenting Are We All Secretly Co-sleeping? The answer, according to Instagram and TikTok, is yes. Now if only we could talk about it outside of the comments section. By Wendy Syfret

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