Dusan Stankovic/E+/Getty Images I’m a romance novelist. For most of my career, I’ve had a very specific writing routine. I wake up semi-early, well rested, and clear-headed. Coffee brews in delicious silence. I sit down at my desk, open my laptop, and dive into a state of intense concentration, no interruptions allowed. Then I had...
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...
Johner Images/Johner Images Royalty-Free/Getty Images As a new parent living in an apartment building, I was always terrified that one day I would get The Knock. IYKYK. If you don’t know, it’s the fear that a neighbor is going to come over and complain that your baby is too loud. It’s a risk of living...