RuslanDashinsky/E+/Getty Images As annoying as it is to hear an older relative say something like, “In my day, we didn’t have all these allergies; we all ate gluten and we liked it!”, they’re not strictly speaking wrong. Food allergies are on the rise around the world. Approximately 32 million people in the United States, including...
KOLOstock/Photodisc/Getty Images Adjusting to life with a new baby in the house — whether it’s your first or your fifth — always has some learning curve. It’s not just figuring out your new little human, it’s figuring out how this little human is going to affect all the relationships in your home, including with your...
Instagram When you first have a baby, and then a toddler, it can be really difficult to even remember what your life was like before they arrived, much less recreate it. I went from waking up at 11 a.m. only to head to an hours-long boozy brunch on the weekends to being screamed awake at...
TikTok Here in America, we often describe the immediate postpartum period as “being in the trenches” and it’s easy to understand why. Hospital stays are brief — between 24 and 48 hours for a vaginal birth and about two to three days for a c-section — and paid maternity leave is, famously, non-existent if your...