Getty Images/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Choosing a name for your child is kind of a surreal experience. You suddenly realize there are tons of baby names you hate: names you associate with people you didn’t like or bad characters in your favorite shows, movies, and books. But you also realize there are a bunch of names...
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...
Vesnaandjic/Getty Images There are a lot of conversations about how to raise your kid that you and your partner should have well before the process even occurs. How many kids do you want? Will you raise them with any religion? What kind of parent do you want to be? How will we navigate X, Y,...
Natalia Lebedinskaia/Moment/Getty Images Before I had kids, I thought I wanted five. (I know.) My husband talked me down to three and then that number got a lot shakier after we had one. Eventually we were brave enough to have a second but Baby #3 never materialized because, as they say, “no plan survives contact...