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Advice to Employers: Please Create Policies Assuming All Worker Are Single

Me and my daughter Motherhood is harder than it needs to be. This is partially because of the inexcusable work/life policies in the U.S., but also because of our own outsized expectations. We are living in an age when the ideal mom is a mash-up between the helicopter mom, the corporate exec, and the earth mama — and there's just not enough high-efficiency, low-emissions biofuel to go around.  –Elissa Strauss,  Why I don't want 'mom friends' We just celebrated "Mother's Day" and honored mothers and other women who help make the world and our families a better place. Every year at this time, I think about what mothers really need to be successful and independent. I say, "independent" because developing policies and legislation that are premised on the notion that all working moms have supportive families and/or spouses is not in the best interest of working moms. Instead, Corporate America and Congress should develop policies and legislation that p

Life with the baby: The Hospital and Week 1

This ain't no regular mommy blog!

The Brutal Truth About Natural Childbirth (Part II)

Chaton's World: An Ode to Lip Balm...

Why Being a Mom is The Best Job On Earth

Loving Your Newborn Baby...

Natural childbirth should give you some street cred... (#natural childbirth)

Introducing the Baby!!!

Great Expectations...

Expecting the baby...

Never ask a woman if she's pregnant...

The Power of the Belly...

Now that I am pregnant, everyone in the world seems so skinny…