Racism During Prenatal Visits isn’t a topic covered in any of the popular pregnancy books so I scoured the internet for people who could relate beyond peer-reviewed articles and academic texts about the intersections between institutional racism and the medical industrial complex. Read more
Don’t do it, I reprimand myself in my head. She’s fine. Don’t do it. She just moved a little. Don’t do it. Embarrassingly, she has not one but two life-detecting monitors (a motion sensor pad under her mattress that came with the video monitor, and a Snuza clipped on her diaper that is supposed to beep should she stop breathing.) Don’t do it. Neither is going off. Don’t do it. She’s fine, she’s fine, she’s fine… Read more
I didn’t want to fail at breastfeeding. It was not an option. As I reread my worn copy of The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, I started to panic. I knew deep down something was wrong, and she wasn’t getting enough milk, but I was doing everything right, and I wanted it to work so badly. Read more
Sex work is work. But it’s work we judge mothers for doing. Read more
I entertain the thought that my father really did know that there was more to women, to me, and that he just didn’t know how to deal with it. Read more
When engineering teams aren’t diverse, only certain people’s problems get solved. Read more
The trend of allistic parents disrespecting, exploiting, and profiting off of books about their autistic children perpetuates painful stigma—and continued abuse. Read more
The trend of allistic parents disrespecting, exploiting, and profiting off of books about their autistic children perpetuates painful stigma—and continued abuse. Read more
These parents are turning this tumultuous political moment into a teachable one. Read more
‘Maternal instinct’ pathologizes women who don’t want to have children. But that ‘maternal drive’ is often cultivated through pregnancy itself. Read more
