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Fertility

celebrity Selling Sunset’s Mary Fitzgerald Is Having Uterine Surgery The reality star says she made plans for the procedure after suffering a septic miscarriage. By Emily Leibert
fertility What If You Hadn’t Frozen Your Eggs? For many patients, egg freezing provides the comfort of possibility. But for some, the procedure can be so uncomfortable it no longer feels worth it. By Rae Nudson

health ‘All That Money Can Only Give You a Chance, Not a Guarantee’ Three women who traveled abroad to undergo fertility treatments share what they spent and how it went. By Charlotte Lytton
life after roe Alabama’s IVF Patients Are in Embryo Purgatory “This isn’t something that can wait until next year for me.” By Rae Nudson

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Pregnancy

culture Kelly Clarkson Calls Arizona’s Abortion Ban ‘Insane’ She got emotional while speaking with Hillary Clinton about her complicated pregnancies. By Tariro Mzezewa
celebrity Nara Smith’s Baby Has Arrived The model and influencer gave birth to a baby girl, and her name is rather whimsical. By Emily Leibert

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how i got this baby The Single Mom Whose Friend Found Her a Donor Embryo “It took time to get to an emotional place where I could say: I don’t care if we share genetics. I just want a family.” By Yolanda Wikiel
parenting How to Survive the ‘Fourth Trimester’ The weeks that follow birth are more brutal than you could ever imagine — especially if you don’t know what to expect. By Amil Niazi

how i got this baby The Mom of 3 Who Has Been a Surrogate 4 Times “I’ve come to look at it as extreme babysitting. I tell myself I’m babysitting an embryo, and then a fetus.” By Kristen Mascia
how i got this baby The Mom Who Gave Birth Minutes After Being Turned Away From the Hospital “I told them to call 911. Then I started hollering, ‘Baby’s coming! He’s coming!’” By Yolanda Wikiel

Kids

parenting The Moms Who Smoke in Secret They’ll do anything to hide it from their kids — except quit. By Emily Gould
parenting When Kids Are Addicted to their Phones, Who Is to Blame? Parents can’t change their kids’ relationships to screens without also addressing their own. By Kathryn Jezer-Morton

parenting When Your Kid Is the Classroom Problem Child What would you do if your third-grader hit other kids, shoved his teachers, destroyed his classroom, and hid from everyone? By Anya Kamenetz
parenting Is a Sick Kid Better Than an Absent Kid? Health policies have grown more lax in an attempt to improve school attendance. Parents and teachers are split on whether it’s working. By Melissa Dahl

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Teens

power Police Give Update on Oklahoma Nonbinary Student’s Death They say a preliminary report shows 16-year-old Nex Benedict “did not die as a result of trauma” from an alleged assault at school. By Emily Leibert
parenting Can Parents Prevent Their Sons From Sliding to the Right? It might feel dangerous to let a teen explore reactionary and unformed pseudo-ideologies. But no one should get canceled at the dinner table. By Kathryn Jezer-Morton

culture The 40-Ounce Bully In middle schools across the country, owning a candy-colored Stanley cup (or, ideally, several) can make or break your social standing. By Julia Reinstein
parenting Maybe Your Teen Doesn’t Need a Mental-Health Day Letting kids stay home from school can be really bad for them, actually. By Anya Kamenetz

Parenting Advice

parenting Talking to My Kids About the Unbearable When cruelty is inescapable, what are we supposed to tell our children? By Amil Niazi
parenting The Transgender Family Handbook 144 specific suggestions, from trans young people and their loved ones, that parents may find helpful.

profile Park Slope Parents Is Old Enough to Order a Drink Susan Fox wanted to build a community. She never expected to birth an archetype. By Emily Gould
advice What to Do (and Not to Do) When Your Friend Has a Newborn Forget sending a onesie. By Charlotte Cowles

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Parenting Trends

parenting The Rise of the Accidentally Permissive Parent Some moms and dads who strive to be “gentle parents” unknowingly turn into indulgent ones, largely because gentle parenting is just too hard. By Elizabeth Passarella
parenting Are We All Secretly Co-sleeping? The answer, according to Instagram and TikTok, is yes. Now if only we could talk about it outside of the comments section. By Wendy Syfret

the hard part Are You a Silky Mom, a Crunchy Mom, or a Scrunchie Mom? Parenting, according to TikTok. By Amil Niazi
brooding Are Helicopter Parents Actually Lazy? Maybe they’re soothing their anxiety, maybe they’re just choosing the path of least resistance. By Kathryn Jezer-Morton

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