Is childbirth really like running a marathon?
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Is my nanny a better mother than I am?
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Why my kids watched me give birth
I wanted them to witness the pain and emotion of life. Then I started screaming -- and my daughter started crying
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The strange story of my son’s circumcision
I believe cutting a boy's foreskin is mutilation. So why am I standing here at my child's bris?
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The twin who didn’t make it
I walked into my checkup pregnant with two children. I left knowing that life would never be the same
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What a boob: My breast-feeding failure
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I never thought I’d be another single black mother
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The universe owes me a daughter
I have two sons I adore, but I can't stop longing for the baby girl I've fantasized about for most of my life
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Mommy, what’s a vagina?
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The baby I turned away
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Mommie fearest
I'm due in four weeks and if the predictions of my mother friends are accurate, I should feel like a total impostor, a crappy mom, a complete failure.
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Bad chemistry?
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