As a mother, watching your son put an engagement ring on his lover’s finger can be a beautiful sight. And if you have seen enough TV shows, most engagement rings are bequeathed. Some parents even save their rings for these very purposes. Yet, as it stands, you always have someone who doesn’t want to do...

Every parent hopes that their children will have a normal life filled with friends, successes, and love. That hope can often seem harder to achieve if their child is born with a disability or another type of problem. This mom has opened up about what it is like having a daughter born with a rare...

Having a family is at the top of many people’s lists of goals they want to accomplish. Along with this list, there is love. Not just any love, but that deep and passionate love that comes out of nowhere and wraps itself around you in a way that you can not resist.  This is what...

One mom breastfeeds her two boys and plans to continue until they want to stop. Sheryl Wynne’s sons, Riley and Mylo, are five and six years old. Although her family questions this uncommon practice, Wynne, 39, insists that it’s completely normal and has created a lifelong bond between her and her sons. She calls “mummy...

Motherhood is a dream that many women wish for themselves. Raising children and devoting time to changing diapers does not seem daunting for them, but rather exciting. Many women do not fall pregnant as easily as other women, and they end up trying for many years to conceive. But what if your chance of becoming...

As mothers, knowing when to step back and let our child face the world can be, even if it’s only for a moment. A few years ago, Candice Curry, author and mother of 6 wrote a short piece called ‘I put my daughter down and never picked her back up’ that perfectly encapsulates the moments...

Just a few months ago, Lauren Sice was planning summer adventures with her 13-year-old son George. Now, she is planning his funeral. Devastated, she explained how he came to be diagnosed with T-Cell Lymphoma. She wants to share her son’s story so people are aware that these things can happen and to remain vigilant. The...

Doctor Jessica So’s young son has a unique interest: surgery. He loves watching videos of surgeries on YouTube, and learning about the human body. For this reason, the creative mom gave him the best surprise on his fourth birthday: they performed a c-section together using play-doh. Learning with a Play-Doh C-Section Jessica So is a...

Piercing an infant’s ears is an ongoing debate. On one side, some people believe that the choice should be up to the child once she grows up. Parents shouldn’t put their babies under a painful modification without their consent. On the other side, piercing an infant’s ears is common in many cultures. Many women who had...

Oh, the lovely world of social media. A place where everyone has an opinion about you. What you wear, where you go, who your friends are. How you raise your kids, how many children you have, which school you send them to. The list is endless. And yes, while everyone is entitled to their opinion,...

Grandparents are their grandkids’ happy place. They are like a home away from home. That said, when they live in the same house as their grandkids, it’s like every day is Christmas.  Studies have shown that this close-knit relationship between grandparents and their grandkids is far more beneficial than was previously assumed. There are lots...

Women’s health conditions are generally studied less than men’s, and postnatal health gets more attention than postpartum health, which makes this survey the first of its kind. Is it possible for formerly pregnant women to feel phantom baby kicks? According to this study, absolutely! Women can feel these phantom kicks up to 28 years after...