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Motherhood



Motherhood is the experience of parenthood through the lens of femininity. There are many different types of maternal relationships that are defined socially, biologically, and legally, and each carries enormous—and often conflicting—cultural expectations and assumptions. Finding out what it means to be a “good mother” is often a journey of self-discovery, learning how to best balance external expectations, personal desires, and family realities. We can be intensely judged for how we perform gendered parental roles, but we also can gain great personal satisfaction by fulfilling those roles. Finding our own understanding of our complex identities as parents can help us find resilience and joy in the long journey of parenthood.

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Letting Go of Attachment to a Parental Role

Kim shares that it’s important to let go of the role of motherhood because it allows you to have a new kind of relationship with your children. In this way, you can both show up fully as who you are today.

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Mommy Burnout: How to Reclaim Your Life and Raise Healthier Children in the Process

The ultimate must-read handbook for the modern mother: a practical, and positive tool to help free women from the debilitating notion of being the “perfect mom,” filled with funny and all too relatable true-life stories and realistic suggestions to stop the burnout cycle, and protect our kids...

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Have Children? Here’s How Kids Ruin Your Romantic Relationship

For around 30 years, researchers have studied how having children affects a marriage, and the results are conclusive: the relationship between spouses suffers once kids come along.

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FindCenterBut there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begin.

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Motherhood Through the Years

We asked six moms about what motherhood is like at a month, six months, a year, five years, 15 years, and 30 years.

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Your Pregnancy and Childbirth: Month to Month

Take charge of your pregnancy. For trusted advice, turn to Your Pregnancy and Childbirth: Month to Month from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

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Swiping Right in the Fertility Doctor’s Office: On Pursuing Romance and Single Motherhood at Once

Why do unmarried women have to choose between motherhood and a love life? Can't we try for both at the same time?

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FindCenterWhen you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

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Glennon Doyle Melton Expresses How She Felt About Being a Stay-at-Home Mom | SuperSoul Sunday | OWN

Oprah’s Book Club author, Glennon Doyle Melton, tells Oprah Winfrey about the time she leveled with another mother on how she felt as a stay-at-home mom.

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How to Have a Kid and a Life: A Survival Guide

Continue to have and grow your life, Mom―for your sake and your kids’. When did being a good mom come to mean giving up everything that used to make you … you? That’s the question millions of 21st-century mothers grapple with every single day as they parent in our madly kid-centric culture.

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