miniseries/E+/Getty Images By now you’ve probably heard of “default parenting” — when one parent in the family takes on most of the responsibilities of raising kids. It usually comes up in conversations about the mental load, or the invisible load, of running a household: remembering to buy toilet paper and put it in all the...
LaylaBird/E+/Getty Images Pregnancy is often a tough time, both for individual pregnant people and for couples. Bodies are changing, lives are changing, and emotions — for hormonal and non-hormonal reasons — run high. So, it’s perfectly understandable that interpersonal spats can pop up from time to time even among the strongest couples. Reddit user u/Illustrious_Hour2042...
@mar1ssab / TikTok Whenever a pregnant friend of mine asks me for some advice as they enter motherhood, one thing comes to my mind immediately: sleep! Get all the sleep you can. Sleep in. Sleep early. Sleep often. Soak in every minute of those precious ZZZs because soon, they will be a distant dream. No...
@superdober19 / TikTok When I was a new mom, I was an exclusive pumper. This meant that every few hours, I would connect my pump and try to get as much milk as I could to feed my daughter. I would do all the pumping tricks, like drinking tea and power pumping. Eventually, my supply...