“Are you still planning on doing abortions after you have your baby?” a colleague asked. I was visibly pregnant in my third trimester and pushing a patient to the operating room. I was surprised at the question; We were friends and most of my coworkers knew I became a doctor in order to provide abortion…
Read moreIt’s 8:20 A.M., and I’m sitting with Serena Williams in her office in New York’s NoHo neighborhood. The space she shares with a tech company when she’s in town from Florida is empty, except for her glam squad in the other room. “You don’t mind if I eat breakfast while we talk?” she asks. Multi-tasking…
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In the spring of 1992, I was a new mother of a beautiful baby boy. His father and I were living in Detroit and happily struggling with 3 a.m. feedings and diaper changes. I obsessed over not being able to distinguish my baby’s “feed me” cries from his “I’m wet” cries. In the midst of…
Read moreIt wasn’t until I had my first son, a few years ago, that I noticed a big difference between having a baby on TV and having a baby in real life: My baby was always around. As in, I wasn’t able to dash out to meet the girls for lunch, like Miranda still did once…
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Pregnancy and motherhood has often been a secretive, shrouded club that women only gained access to when they had babies of their own. But while plenty of things about this year were terrible, there were some really great things to happen in 2017 too, and one of them was that we started to break down…
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