motherhood

Massachusetts bill seeking to redefine who qualifies as parents removes terms 'mother' and 'father'

The Massachuse🍌tts Parentage Act aims to ensure "legal parentage equality" for children born to parents "without regard to the marital status, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation of their pa൲rents or...

Mom's extravagant camping setup with plasma tv and sofa sparks heated internet debate: 'Why even go?'

Complete with a plasma TV for the ဣkids, a sofa, a toaster an☂d multiple double beds... Do you think this defeats the purpose of camping?

൲ Dear Abby: My dad disowned me from the family after suggesting therapy — what should I do?

Dear Abby advi😼ses someone whose father😼 disowned her after suggesting therapy and a mother supporting her daughter and grandchildren.

How a mom of two who ‘at♐e her emotions’ lost over 120 pounds in under✅ a year

“I am feeling so good. I feel mentally and physically so much better. I can get out of bed and my body doesn’t ache,” she s🧔aid, adding that before she... 

The 'take a pregnancy test with me' trend is taking TikTok by storm — here's why women should think twice

Three other pregnancy tests with double lines shared with my husband, that ended up with me in hospi✅tal after a miscarriage feeling empty and sad. 🍬

Former 'trad wife' reveals the 'ugliness' behind picture-perfect lifestyle: 'I wish anybody could help me out of this'

"If I had the money, if I had the means, if I had sꦑome way,🌌 I would not be married. I hate this," she recalled thinking about her past life. 

Outrage online as department store sells ‘inappr꧂opriate’ item for toddlers

Kmart has come under fire online after a mom shared a photo of a small pairꦡ of cut-off denim shorts hanging on a rack in-store, designed for babies and toddlers. 

Pregnancy vs. postpartum: Which stage do majorꦬity of moms find harder? ౠ

Forty-one percent of moms said pregnancy did not go as planned, accord⛦i📖ng to new research.

'Queen of the trad wives' speaks out about raising 8 kids on remote ranch, giving birth without pain relief

 Hannah Neeleman, 34, was an aspiring ballerina studying at Juilliard when she met her now-husband, Daniel, 35, who insisted t🌃♑hey get married and start a family prior to her graduation.

My hubby said I took 'the easy way out' by getting a C-section, claims I 'don't know what a real birth is'

As 𝔉mothers, we don't get a medal for not having pain relief. We don't get a certificate saying 'you delivered via c-section' or a plaque that says 'you pushed out...

I’m raising my husband's ex-wife's baby — the reason why is tragic

A woman is raising her husband's 🌳ex wife's baby after she died five days after giving birth. 

Dear Abby: My son is in a throuple, I don't want them to all stay in my home

🌄 Dear Abby weighs in on a son who is expecting a child with his♑ throuple and a mother who just reconnected with her daughter.

Millennial boss ‘shamed’ for not taking maternity leave: 'It's selfish'

“After I spoke about working through m🥃y maternity leave on social media, I received comments from people stating ‘it’s selfish you are putting your business before your child’ and suggesting...

Mom hosts party to celebrate the end of her breastfeeding jou🔥rney

“We both knew this day was coming and🐼 we were ready, but it was still really sad for us both to say goodbye to such a special time in our...

Dear Abby: I think my father molested me when I was a child but I can't remember

Dear Abby weighs in on a woman who can't remember if her father touched her inappropriately as a child and a dauꦕghter-in-law who has turned her husband away from his...

Mom-to-be 'ruins' her own gender reveal party after dad's girlfriend forces it on her

Viral family drama elicits outpouring of s✱ympathy for new mom.

Here's how a new mom transformed her sleep deprivation into a booming business

Living in the picturesque🦹 Northern Beaches of Sydney, Hannah Miller was 🌟no stranger to the exhausting realities of new motherhood. 

꧂ Detran✃sitioner describes agony of pregnancy after changing gender as a teen

D🌸etransitioner Prisha Mosley describes how painful it was going through pregnancy and becoming a mother after having previously changed to being male as a teen.

I'm getting divorced after less than a month of marriage — and I won't tell my gossipy mom why

🌟 Ever since Jules* announced she was getting divorced after her extremely brief marriage, her mom Sylvie* hasn't stopped pressing her for infoꦬrmation.