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Although "getting your pink back" may sound like a line from the "Barbie" movie , it's actually a metaphor resonating with postpartum women all over TikTok. The phrase comes from what happens to flamingos when they raise their offspring: their vibrant color is dulled or sometimes completely depleted because all of their energy and nutrients goes toward their babies. As the chicks grow older and b…

Giving your daughter a unique name can be a bit of a challenge. You want a name that helps her stand out - one that she won't share with half her kindergarten class - but not one that she'll hate in a few years. You want to pick a name that's timeless , but also one that makes her feel special. In short: finding rare girl names can be a little tricky. Luckily, we found some unique girl names that…

Whether you're looking to splurge on a single luxury gift for the mom in your life or want ideas for affordable but covetable Mother's Day gifts she's bound to love, Amazon has plenty of options for every budget. If she's looking to upgrade her skin-care routine , there are loads of premium beauty products with cult followings that our editors swear by. Make busy mornings infinitely better by giv…

"I think things will be easier if my mom dies first," I found myself saying out loud to my best friend late last year, sitting on the carpeted steps of her rental house. This sentence may have come across as cold and morbid to anyone else, but I knew Tessa understood where I was coming from: Her dad and my dad both have terminal lung diseases, and neither of us have the best relationships with ou…

When Jesse Sullivan and Francesca Farago shared their pregnancy news on March 31, it was no coincidence the announcement also fell on Trans Day of Visibility . Sullivan, who came out as transgender when he was 19, has been documenting his and Farago's journey with IVF treatments on social media for months. "We're pregnant! It's been such a struggle to get here, but we felt like TDOV was the perfe…

"Is he running yet?" she asked as her daughter splashed around in the pool. "Charlotte is so fast now, I can't keep up." Charlotte is a loud, tiny girl in my son's swim class . The she, in question, is a random mom whose name I don't know. And my son? He's 1-year-old, has approximately three teeth, and he pooped in the bath yesterday then tried to eat it. So, no. My son is not running yet. I wave…

Ideally, picking out a meaningful baby name should be one of the best parts of preparing to have a child. Whether you go for a traditional baby name or a unique baby name , it's one of the first major decisions you'll make as a new parent. That coupled with the fact that your child will be called this name for their entire life means you'll likely want to pick a name with meaning carefully. But i…

On the short biography required for apartment applications, we were careful not to lie. We let the imaginations of landlords reading our application fill in the gaps. With the sparse details we provided, we were the paragon of stability: two new parents with a cute baby beginning our careers in a new city. Never mind that we were looking for three-bedroom apartments, or that we didn't have rings,…

Getting a cancer diagnosis can be terrifying and life-altering. But for parents, figuring out how to tell your child you have cancer might be one of the hardest parts of grappling with the news. In a video publicly sharing her cancer diagnosis on March 22, Kate Middleton spoke about that very difficulty, saying, "It has taken us time to explain everything to George, Charlotte, and Louis in a way …

Pregnancy can be a time of great joy and excitement, but it can also be a period of infinitely increased anxiety. Everywhere you look, you're inundated by information about how best to set your new baby up for lifelong health and happiness, and the sheer volume of intel can be overwhelming. One consideration that often comes up - especially in social media ads, if the algorithm is wise to your pr…

Going back to work after having a baby is not a cheap thing to do. The average cost of daycare in 2024 is higher than it's ever been, marking an expensive new chapter in the decades-long childcare crisis in the United States. "Parents are paying exorbitant fees," says Cathy Creighton , who studies childcare costs as the director of Cornell University's ILR Buffalo Co-Lab. For many families, dayca…

When you get pregnant, there's so much to think about - and luckily, there are pregnancy apps that can help you keep tabs on all of it. There are pregnancy apps that help you track the baby's growth . Pregnancy apps that give you info about what changes you should be making to your eating routine , beauty products, and physical activities. Pregnancy apps that show you 3D pics of what your baby lo…

It took me six months to get pregnant with my third child, and it couldn't have come soon enough. I had a second-trimester miscarriage with twins beforehand, and while you can't replace what you've lost, my husband and I knew that we really wanted to expand our family. So when a friend recommended that we try Mucinex to get pregnant after months of trying, I decided to give it a go. My friend Sar…

One of the most nerve-wracking parts of pregnancy is learning about - and preparing for - labor. That's partially because there are so few accurate depictions of labor in media and pop culture. The ones that exist often skip from " Is that a contraction ?" to "It's time to push!" to a healthy baby. As a result, people may have questions about when and how to push during labor, exactly. A little h…

Morrison Goodwin was born in March 2018 with a head that looked a bit like a "Lego block," says his mom Georgina, a sales executive in Los Angeles. Morrison was twin baby A, packed below his sister Rae at the bottom of Goodwin's uterus. Goodwin mentioned her observation about her son's head to her pediatrician, who recommended various exercises and repositioning with the help of their physical th…