.jpg)
Once I was released from my own hospital stay, I rushed to the NICU. Despite the nurses and doctors suggesting I go home and rest, my trauma refused to let me go. We spent the next two months watching my son grow stronger and healthier in the hospital. But when we finally came home, I…
Read more.jpg)
“The thought of my husband dropping me off at the hospital, me getting checked in alone, getting the epidural shot alone, and not having his hand to hold terrifies me,” says Morgan Pederson, a 32-year-old woman from Queens, New York, who is planning to deliver her second child in June. Last week two New York…
Read more
It turns out that tiny strips of silicone can help reduce the appearance of scars. You place them on top of the wound at night, and over time the scar fades. I wasn’t home a few hours from the ob-gyn before ordering a jumbo pack online. The sooner it came, the sooner I could start…
Read more
There are several factors that go into choosing the best birth control—your reproductive plans, your feelings about hormones, your experience with cramps. All methods have their pros but when it comes to the most effective type of birth control, there’s a clear winner: long-acting reversible contraceptives (or LARCs). LARCs—which include IUDs and implants—are between 98…
Read more
It hasn’t even been a month since Shay Mitchell gave birth to her daughter and already she’s facing the wrath of mommy-shamers. This week, people left her a series of critical comments about how she went to Drake’s birthday party with her boyfriend, Matte Babel, shortly after having her baby. But she defended herself on…
Read more
News broke over the weekend that Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds welcomed their third child about two months ago. The couple confirmed they were expecting back in May, when Lively attended the premiere of Reynolds’s movie, Pokémon Detective Pikachu, in a form-fitting yellow dress. Now, details about the newborn are slowly trickling out—including something Reynolds…
Read more
