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Why Don't I Breastfeed? Because I Don't Want to!
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (317+ words) Despite what a random mom online might say, you don't have to martyr yourself to be a good mother, writes Kara Kennedy. The first time I casually mentioned I wasn't planning to breastfeed, I got an hour-long lecture about how…...
Motherhood Wasn't the Interruption I Expected It to Be
1+ week, 2+ day ago (229+ words) The Free Press Last weekend, "the five kindest, and swiftest, and wisest bunnies in the whole wide world" delivered baskets of Easter eggs made of chocolate and marshmallow and glitter and gold to every child on Earth. And the bravest…...
Can Man-Made Eggs Be the Future of Fertility?
3+ week, 15+ hour ago (304+ words) The Free Press When a baby girl is the size of a sweet potato'about 10 inches from head to toe in her mother's womb'she has the most eggs she will ever have in her entire life. By the time she's born,…...
Tough Love: Am I Wrong to Not Want Kids?
3+ week, 3+ day ago (574+ words) The Free Press Lately I have been wondering if I am making a mistake by deciding not to have kids'usually after reading an essay in The Free Press about how important kids are and how no one is having kids…...
I Almost Didn't Survive "The Population Bomb'
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (155+ words) The Free Press When my mother found out she was pregnant with me, she probably went through the same agonizing checklist as any woman facing an unexpected pregnancy. Could she and my dad afford it? They were in their late…...
Stop Telling Women When to Have a Baby
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (196+ words) The Free Press Young women have never struggled to find people with opinions about when they should have a baby, and that is especially true these days, across the political spectrum. Recently, the liberal podcaster Dax Shepard said he was…...
The British Baby Bust
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (137+ words) The Free Press Mara is 36, living in London, highly educated, professionally successful, and six years into a stable relationship. She has thought about having children'carefully, repeatedly, and for a long time. And she has decided not to. She told me…...
What I've Learned from Watching People Wait to Have Children
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (171+ words) The Free Press Last week, I had to deliver terrible news that is sadly not unique in my line of work: I had to tell a pregnant woman that her baby had died in the womb. She screamed with the…...
Who Am I to Edit My Son's DNA?
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (93+ words) When Alana Newhouse's son was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder, she faced a spiritual choice: Should she rewrite the very code of his life? For Alana Newhouse, these questions are not abstract. In March 2022, her son Elijah was diagnosed…...