Doctors recommend having a glucose test for gestational diabetes, but it's not mandatory. Here's what you need to know to make an informed choice.

Life with little kids needs to be triaged—pick a few of your most important things, focus on those and let the rest go.

When you think of what kids need for healthy development—nutritious food, education, a loving home—play might not make the list. But it should.

There are pros and cons to back-to-back pregnancies, or waiting a few more years before diving back into baby land. We weigh all of the options.

It’s cheaper, for one thing. And I figure it’s better to clean than to scream.

I consider myself pretty easy-going, and I can usually roll with the punches. But this time, the overwhelming stress of parenting got to me.

I hope that starting kindergarten will help my baby grow up (but just not too quickly, please!).

It’s all kind of magical, even though it may not feel that way.

Feeling like a walking mom-zombie is expected when you have a newborn, but for many parents, the sleep deprivation becomes chronic. (A toddler who climbs out of the crib, a bedwetting preschooler, a school-ager with nightmares.) We joke about how tired we are, but year after year of broken sleep is actually wreaking havoc on our health.

Katie noticed that the parents in her favourite Christmas movies are struggling. But a little Christmas cheer fixes them in the end. Except that doesn't happen in real life.

It’s clear that men need to orgasm to make a baby. But do women? We asked the experts whether achieving climax can help with conception.