A few weeks before my son Oliver turned eight, planning his birthday started taking up residence in my brain. We weren’t aiming for anything particularly extravagant. We were having extended family ...

Earlier this year I gave birth to twins (yes, during a pandemic, which meant no outside help) so I’ve gotten a crash course on everything that is useful and also what you don’t actually need when it ...

Tori Kelly spent most of her pregnancy on the road, opening for… ...

Between mothering and working (wait, aren’t those the same things?), we know you have your hands full. The good news is, you’ve got an extra set of little helping hands right under the same roof.

As an antioxidant, vitamin C can help you react better to stress by reducing the activity of stress hormones in your central nervous system (CNS). It also improves vascular function and increases the ...

A father is going viral for doing something mamas do every day: Comforting his daughter by letting her nurse. Twitter user Christopher Brown (known as “Daddy Duke” on Twitter) recently posted a video ...

Mariah Maddox is Motherly's Essays Editor. She is a passionate storyteller who shares her testimonials of motherhood, marriage and life through words and photos. Mariah is also a self-published author ...

In this world, there are simply some topics people have irreconcilable beliefs about. Whether it’s acceptable to be chronically late seems to be among them. As someone on Team You’re Late If You ...

Working moms are stressed, stretched, and burned out. While juggling meetings, deadlines, and to-do lists, many are also carrying the extra burden of being the “default parent.” They’re the ones ...

Let’s start with this: Moms are priceless. Still, if we had to put a dollar value on their work, a new study has an answer—$140,315. That’s the annual economic worth of a mom’s labor, according to a ...