Eleanor J. Bader explores with Four Mothers author Abigail Leonard how national policies and cultural norms in Finland, Japan, Kenya and the U.S. shape the first year of motherhood—and redefine what it means to parent in vastly different societies.
Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.
Researchers are rethinking what they know. Across the animal kingdom, models have vastly underestimated the energy females invest in reproduction. A lack of women in the field might have led researchers to pay less attention to the costs.
Prime Video's series, created by The Farewell’s Lulu Wang, is a tragic and truthful rumination on womanhood. The show also sprinkles in arcs about class differences, racism, and motherhood.
The US lacks the most basic policies and infrastructure to support parents like me — and mothers bear the worst of it. At a time when we should be overjoyed at the life we’ve brought into the world, we feel anger at a system that’s hostile to us.
In the United States, women face the prospect of becoming mothers without necessary social protections. Many decide it’s not worth the risk.
On Thursday night, the FX show aired a weird, wonderful ode to working motherhood.
FX’s new comedy Better Things, created by and starring Louie’s Pamela Adlon, is an acerbic look at the life of a working actress raising three children.
German-born co-founder of Lamaze International taught breathing and relaxation techniques to generations of expectant mothers
Science has told us all sorts of fascinating things about the uniquely intimate link between mother and child at the biological level, and reminds us how essential motherhood really is to human experience as a whole.
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