One of the first decisions a pregnant woman makes regarding her pregnancy is how she wants to deliver. The choice is between vaginal delivery or a c-section. While women are often well-versed with the potential risks of c-sections, the risks of vaginal delivery aren’t as widely discussed. After learning about the risks of c-sections, this...

You’ve probably heard of the cold sore virus. In fact, you may have even had a cold sore yourself. While relatively harmless (though irritating!) for adults, cold sores caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV) can be deadly in babies and young children. These parents almost lost their baby girl to HSV because they did...

Teens and young adults on TikTok have been known to do some pretty crazy things. In an age of young people constantly trying to impress each other on the internet, they often push the boundaries – and more often, a little too far. This woman’s daughter helped pull a cruel TikTok prank on her friend’s...

Losing a child is the hardest thing a mother (or any parent) can go through. Whether via miscarriage, stillborn, or the child dies at any point after birth, the pain of that loss is excruciating. This husband’s wife experienced this before they met. Now, nearly 10 years after the tragedy, he’s asking her to stop...

If you were pregnant and knew that your baby will be born with a severe physical and mental disability, what would you do? This mom, who has spent the last 47 years caring for her son with down syndrome, says that if she could go back in time, she would have an abortion. It may...

Many children grow up dreaming of becoming a prince or princess one day. We imagine it as being this charmed life of love and privilege. From what we learned when Diana became princess, and now again with Meghan Markle, we know that the Royal Family isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In their interview...

Giving birth is a difficult, painful, and scary experience. When a woman is going through it, she wants to have certain people by her side. One of those people is often their partner, the person they are going to raise the child with. That’s exactly what this woman wanted, except while she was giving birth,...

One of the hardest things any of us will ever have to go through is the loss of a loved one. Losing a parent can be particularly difficult because it’s hard to imagine going through life without them. Karen Schlaegel knows this first hand, She wrote the article “8 Things I Learned From Watching My...

As someone who grew up with three siblings, I often look at only children with, to be honest, a bit of wonder but also pity. What did they do without siblings? Who did they play with? Who drank the other half of their soda because they weren’t allowed to have a whole one (Okay, maybe...

Being a parent is one of the toughest jobs you can have. It’s not just about providing your children with a roof over their heads and food in their belly. You’re trying to raise a child who will be bold, independent, kind, hard-working, and just in general, a good human being. Therapist Dr. Tracy Hutchinson...

There’s no doubt about it; parenting is one of the hardest jobs in the world. Some days everything feels like magic, but there are plenty of days in between that make you want to pull your own hair out. In these moments, it’s easy to lose your temper and yell at your kids. Unfortunately, not...

In the days of having a delivery service for nearly everything, there’s one thing that we most certainly never put in the mail: our children. While that may seem like a whacky concept, back at the beginning of the 20th-century, the concept of children being sent through the mail to grandparents or other relatives wasn’t...