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Find out what you need to know about being pregnant, including common symptoms, how to manage your health, and what to expect week by week.

Pregnancy

Everything you need to know about your pregnancy: what to expect week by week, tips for baby names and baby shower planning, pregnancy health, and more.

The changes that occur during pregnancy and postpartum can make women feel like their bodies are out of control. That's when eating disorders creep in.

Pregnancy is the eating disorder trigger that no one ever talks about

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Kids struggle with body image earlier than you think

Eating disorders

Answers to all of your questions around pregnancy health, from weight gain and diet to pregnancy bleeding, swelling, and what medications are safe to take. 

Pregnancy health

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Family

Let us help navigate daily life with your growing family, with everything from kids’ craft and activity ideas to advice on discipline and birthday party inspiration.

Women's health

Instead of questioning if they look right, let's bring some body positivity to our boobs and celebrate them for what they are: pretty freaking beautiful.

Moms, let's just love our boobs—no matter what they look like

Breastfeeding

Blogs

5 things that happen to your body after birth that no one warns you about

7 tips on how to ask for help with your new baby

The first four weeks: what caring for a newborn is really like

Maternal health

Everything you need to know about caring for your postpartum body, from managing depression and anxiety to what changes will happen in your body.

Baby

Everything you need to know about your baby, including information on breastfeeding, teething, colic, baby development, food, sleep, and more..

Postpartum care

The wondrous process of producing milk starts when you're just 6 weeks pregnant and carries on until you stop nursing. Here are all the incredible details.

How breast milk production works (spoiler: it's freakin' amazing!)

Looking for breastfeeding help? Read our tips on the best breastfeeding positions, finding the right latch, treating sore nipples, and knowing when to quit.

Everyone talks about morning sickness, moodiness and cravings, but your mom friends didn't mention these possibly-TMI, totally strange pregnancy symptoms.

10 strange pregnancy symptoms nobody tells you about

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Here’s what you need to know about obstetric cholestasis, an unusual and terribly uncomfortable disorder that happens in late pregnancy.

The difference between an itchy belly and obstetric cholestasis

Labour and delivery

If you’re pregnant and on baby-bump watch, know this: There are clues to help you figure out when you will start to show.

When will I start showing?

Pregnancy is one of those life events for which no one can adequately prepare you. Here are some of the things I wished I knew going into mommyhood.

6 things I wish I’d known before getting pregnant

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Motherhood

A sudden jolt of pain down there during pregnancy might take a mom&#x2d;to&#x2d;be by surprise. Here's everything you need to know about "lightning crotch."

What the h*ll is lightning crotch?

My eating disorder has made me do a strange kind of algebra, calculating what I need to lose to off-set what I might gain during pregnancy.

While worrying about getting pregnant, my eating disorder slinked back

Opinion

Stretch marks are common, but that doesn't make them easier to love. One artist is helping to change that—all with a little glitter.

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This pregnant mom’s “huge” belly brought out the online trolls

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Body positivity is out, body neutrality is in. But what exactly is it?