South_agency/E+/Getty Images For new parents, it’s only ever a matter of time before someone — a family member, co-worker, friend, or stranger on the street — asks the inevitable question: “So when are you going to have another?” It’s usually followed up with (or even posed as) “When are you going to give [your child]...
TikTok Let’s hear it for the boys. Specifically, for the boys (men) who step up and get a vasectomy. Vasectomies aren’t exactly a relationship equalizer — especially if you’re talking about a man who’s fathered children in a relationship with someone who’s gone through the months of growing and then birthing those children. Compared to...
This wasn’t supposed to happen. The ultrasound tech, who started out chatting about her love of pottery sculpting and camper van travel, fell silent as her wand pressed firmly into my abdomen. Click, she snapped a photo. Then another. I squinted at the grainy image of my 30-week-old fetus on the monitor. What was she...
At any given moment, 100 thoughts are running through my brain: doctor appointments, dentist appointments, parent-teacher meetings. Did the kids take their vitamins today? The kids need new shoes — wait, shoot, I never switched the clothes over from the washer. Crap, I need a shower. As the default parent in our home, and a...