Jamie Grill/Tetra images/Getty Images When people are choosing a baby name, one thing many are concerned about is choosing one that isn’t trendy or too popular. Well, there’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news: the most popular names of today are nowhere near as popular as baby names in the 90s and earlier. The bad news: simply looking at lists might not give you a clear picture of the most popular names in the country. Recently, baby naming site Nameberry analyzed the most popular names in the country specifically looking to see how combining alternate spellings would...
Moms Aren't Broken — They're Lonely
Natalia Lebedinskaia/Getty Images Melissa Wirt found herself alone, bleeding in the bathroom. She was miscarrying her baby, and she quite literally had nobody to call. Just outside the door, her five other kids still needed parenting. It felt like an all-time low, but it also became the moment that inspired her to do something about it. She was ready to build her own village. “We had moved from a neighborhood out to a farm, thinking if I could slow life down and move away from the chaos and noise, that things would finally feel better, and I would feel like...
These 29 Baby Names Sound Good In English & Spanish
Lisa5201/E+/Getty Images More than 40 million people in the United States speak Spanish, making it the second most widely spoken language in the country after English. For many families, being bilingual is a part of everyday life, as is shifting back and forth between languages depending on who they’re speaking with. But when it comes time to name a baby, it sometimes leads parents into a bit of a linguistic pickle. So, they end up searching for baby names that sound good in English and Spanish. Why does it matter? These parents want to find a name that both native...
My Daughter’s Diagnosis Changed The Way I See The World— & What I Expect From It
Justine Knight When my daughter was diagnosed with a rare brain condition called polymicrogyria, I did what I think a lot of moms would do in the same position: I went into research mode. It felt safer to stay busy than to sit with how scared I really was. I made spreadsheets. I found specialists. I learned about therapies I’d never heard of. I listened to every piece of advice I could find and tried to follow it all. What didn’t cross my mind was to worry about how the world would treat her. We knew her as our hilarious,...