Babies

I got the call around 4:30pm. "Is the inn full?" It was the foster care placement office calling. Our first call since we asked to be on hold after picking up a drug-addicted newborn just a couple months before....

My husband and I sit down at a restaurant with our two sons.  After several grueling minutes, the boys finally decide on their order (chicken fingers....again) and get to work coloring their menus.  My husband and I make an attempt...

https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/988463639811194880 I thought I was over the Royals. But I'm not. I'm actually obsessed. I’m talking about Queen Elizabeth, Prince William, Duchess Kate, Harry, and his fiancée Megan. Not the Kardashians. (God save the Queen, not the Kardashians.) Let’s face it. I’m 47....

I've prepared for a baby three times now and each time has been so very different. For my first ever baby which was a foster baby, we received a phone call that she would be ready to go in just...

I knew the story of Odysseus fairly well through literary osmosis but had never actually read The Odyssey in school. I knew that the story was an incredible journey. And that it was also very long. Intimidatingly long, actually....

Black maternal health week. BLACK maternal health week. Black MATERNAL health week... I will NOT capitalize the word health because we BLACK MATRONS don’t have any health to spare for that. The experts have weighed in and the studies have been...

Well-meaning older relatives give us this advice. It's written on glossy pamphlets meant to help. Signs on the walls of the pediatrician's office compel us. It's definitely in the "don't shake the baby" video they make you watch at...

Family and friends offered an obscene amount of advice while I was pregnant with kiddo #1. As I reflect upon being a mom of two kids now, a boy and a girl, what I wish someone, anyone would have...

I truly do not that think I have ever cared about anything in my life as much as I care about being a good mother. Raising happy, healthy, well-adjusted children is so important to me that I can get a...

Do you have a baby book for your child or children? I do! How many of those baby books are filled in? Mine actually is for her first year…but here’s the problem: it asks questions that lead to a...