The Make it Work Mom

Emmaus, Pennsylvania—For one local mother, last Wednesday began much like any other day. Laura, a single mom of three children ages 2, 4,...

On your first day of daycare as a seven-week-old baby, I didn’t cry. Not when I handed you over to a near-stranger, or when I got back...

Like most kids, my childhood bedroom was rarely neat and tidy. I viewed my room as nothing more than a container for my things and a...

Logan's birth story started out nearly identical to Gracie's, but it turned out to be day to night different.

Birth stories are my favorite. It doesn’t matter the type of birth—home, hospital, drug-free vaginal, scheduled c-section, surprise...

We have a “secret” family recipe for chocolate chip cookies. It’s taped to the inside of a cabinet in my parents’ house, and a picture of...

I sit in a hospital bed cradling Gracie, my first baby. I’m nearly delirious with exhaustion, but she’s awake again and screaming loudly...

“Yah-yah-yah-yah-yah,” my freshly minted one-year-old babbles to himself as he flops around on my bed. He’s like a puppy spinning circles...

Your small body is draped across my torso; your limbs hanging off my sides. You pick up your head in discomfort only to slam it back down...

“We’ll give her a cocktail of medicine before we take her back.” the anesthesiologist told me. “It will relax her, make her a little...

"Mommy," my toddler daughter's voice squeaks, "I got you a present!" I look down at her twig-like two-year-old frame to accept the...