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“Some Days It’s Incredibly Difficult”—One Mom Reveals What It’s Like to Co-Parent With an Ex

By Jackie Effenson — 2019

Every other weekend, on the first, third, and fifth Fridays of the month, my four-year-old son goes to spend the weekend with his father.

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New Mothers, Let’s Talk About Your Professional Identity Crisis

Parenthood — especially for women — changes you. After giving birth, the brain actually redesigns itself, trimming old connections and building new ones. If you’re someone who has constructed your adult identity around your career, these changes to how you operate can shake your foundations.

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Janna Koretz
2020
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After Giving Birth to My First Child, I Wondered: Would I Ever Want Sex Again?

I dreaded my husband’s attempts to initiate sex after pregnancy, but giving in out of a sense of duty or embracing a sexless relationship both felt like self-betrayal.

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Meaghan O'Connell
2018
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Here’s Why Becoming a Mother for the First Time Is so Physically Intense

Not to mention all those emotional adjustments...

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Annamarya Scaccia
2017
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The Tools That a Clinical Psychologist Suggests for Taxed Parents

After a tough year for parents, a clinical psychologist and mom of three shares her favorite caregiving tools and tricks, from voice-recording buttons that ease separation anxiety to kitchen timers that promote mindfulness.

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Rebecca Malinsky
2021
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How Dr. Becky Became the Millennial Parenting Whisperer

If you are a parent of a child under the age of, say, 10, it’s unlikely that you made it through the pandemic without coming across Dr. Becky.

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Doree Shafrir
2021
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Dr. Becky Doesn’t Think the Goal of Parenting Is to Make Your Kid Happy

Every generation, sometimes building on and sometimes rejecting what came before, develops its own ideas about parenting. For many millennials, the clinical psychologist Becky Kennedy, a.k.a. Dr. Becky, is the person whom they trust to deliver those ideas.

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David Marchese
2021
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When Motherhood Isn’t Wonderful

I missed the life my husband and I had, and the more I heard about the joy of being a mom, the worse I felt.

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Charlotte Hsu
2014
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What to Expect at Work When You’re Expecting

Legal protections against pregnancy discrimination are one thing. Actual feelings of security are another.

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Roxane Gay
2021
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What Becoming a Parent Really Does to Your Happiness

Research has found that having children is terrible for quality of life—but the truth about what parenthood means for happiness is a lot more complicated.

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Paul Bloom
2021
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I Became a Mother at 25, and I’m Not Sorry I Didn’t Wait

No career comes without risk, but early career precarity and minimal savings certainly raise the stakes of having kids in one’s 20s.

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Elizabeth Bruenig
2021
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