motherhood
I Ate Psychedelic Mushrooms to Treat My Postpartum Depression
"Project Baby—My First Year As a Less Than Perfect Mother" author Julie Ugleholdt says that microdosing shrooms helped her mental health.
Why These Moms Want Marijuana Legalized In Duterte's Philippines
As the government wages a brutal war on drugs, a group of mothers are hoping for a law that they argue, could save their children's lives.
Being a Single Mother Made Me Embrace the Sex Drive I Thought Was Dead
Newly single moms can be horny as hell. I can testify.
Women in Labor Are Being Turned Away From UK Hospitals
I narrowly avoided giving birth in my car after midwives said I wasn't ready to be admitted. I'm not the only mom this has happened to, either.
A Philippine College Is Making All Female Students Take a Pregnancy Test
And it turns out this totally isn't legal at all.
We Looked Into Whether 'Baby Fever' Is a Real Thing
Psychology can tell us a lot about why some people suddenly become obsessed with having a baby.
Are Black Parents Partly Culpable in Their Daughters' Hair Struggle?
Netflix's 'Nappily Ever After' dares to ask, and the answer is finally yes.
'I Squirted Milk All Over': What It’s Really Like to Be a Breastfeeding Mom
In honor of National Breastfeeding Month, we talked to mothers about their unexpected, yet gratifying, experiences of nursing their children.
An Unladylike Article About Addiction
Substance abuse is at odds with what's expected of women. But here I am, a woman in rehab, facing how addiction challenges everything that's ever been expected of me.
Two Women Were Scolded for Breastfeeding, So a Group of Moms Held a Nurse-In
More than a dozen moms in Minnesota nursed their children at a public pool in solidarity with two moms who were scolded for breastfeeding. Public breastfeeding became legal in all 50 states in July of this year.
We Were Rejected From Adopting Foster Children Because We Are Gay
There are roughly 13,000 kids in foster care in our home state of Michigan, but child-placing agencies are legally allowed to discriminate against LGBTQ applicants—and more states have recently passed similar faith-based laws.
The Things We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Motherhood
We spoke with the author of "Motherhood," Sheila Heti, one of the strongest voices in a new literary wave discussing the shame, guilt, and expectations surrounding parenthood.