Scary Mommy and Natalie McComas/Getty I had my last baby at 35. I’m not going to lie—it felt harder than having my first baby at 27. Maybe because my body was older and my uterus was gently used, or possibly just because I was so freaking tired already from raising two other kids while carrying…
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Cavan Images/Getty Though pregnancy and birth are most commonly consigned to the realm of women, many people who do not identify as women are capable of getting pregnant and giving birth. In fact, nonbinary, gender fluid, genderqueer, Two-Spirit, or transgender folks do get pregnant and require prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal care. A hospital in the…
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Scary Mommy and fotostorm/Getty “You think you’re gonna get the COVID shot, doc?” my patient asked, her eyes wide above her mask. They had just announced the sign-ups for the COVID-19 vaccine for healthcare workers at my hospital system. It felt like the first glimmer of hope for return to normalcy. The last thing I…
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Julia Meslener for Scary Mommy. Kelly Sikkema/Unsplash and Martin Barraud/Getty Did you know that if a child is born to parents that both carry health insurance, the parents don’t get to choose which insurance the child will be covered by? You have probably read that a few times and are currently thinking “What?!” But it’s…
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Scary Mommy and Image Source/Getty The other day I was scrolling through my fav Howard University Alumni page (HU, you know) when I came across a post about the sudden outrage Meghan McCain had about maternity leave in this country and her sudden revelation on how it needs to change. I won’t give you my…
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Scary Mommy and South_agency/Getty There’s lots of confusion over parents with COVID-19 and breastfeeding. Specifically, if you are infected with COVID-19, is it safe to continue breastfeeding your child? Obviously, you don’t want to transmit the virus to your child. However, you may want to breastfeed — but may worry that your breast milk contains…
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Scary Mommy, Chris Jackson/Getty and eberhard grossgasteiger/Pexels Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may have ditched their HRH titles and stopped official work as senior members of the British Royal Family. But on Valentine’s Day, Meghan announced she was “preggers,” as the English tabloids say, with a little brother or sister for one-year-old Master Archie Harrison…
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Scary Mommy and Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Getty I have always had fair, sensitive skin. I burn really easy, never tan, and literally everything gives me hives. At 33 though, it’s something I’m totally used to. I know which irritants to avoid and I wear my sunscreen! Unfortunately, my skin has changed pretty dramatically as of…
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Jose Luis Pelaez Inc When I was pregnant with my daughter in 2016, I did not have the delightful “baby bump” that pregnant ladies are famous for until my third trimester. This was for a wide variety of reasons, ranging from my tall, broad shouldered frame to my heavily muscular core. After all, I competed…
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Scary Mommy and Stefani Reynolds/Getty and Sharon McCutcheon/Unsplash I never got to do the whole “sleep when the baby sleeps” thing. I was too busy trying to pull off my own “keep a roof over our heads when the baby sleeps” thing. You see, I had no paid parental leave when my daughter was born.…
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