I can't get over this image. Even Betty was transfixed. The way they're looking at each other and the baby is looking up at them. This is the nuclear family when it works.
Alanis...
The past 3 months postpartum have been going so well, so smoothly. The baby has been sleeping all night and I felt really good with my sex life and relationship.
I'm all for Hitler bashing but I have a feminist bone to pick here. Artist Ronald Manullang portrayed the fuhrer as a semi-naked pregnant woman as a punishment:
"This is a terrifying, powerful...
So as I move through this 4th trimester, I am slowly reclaiming my body as my own. Most of the baby weight is gone, and I am feeling quite normal. My breasts, however, seem to be in a territorial war...
I have always felt very in tune with my body. I can feel ovulation happening each month, and when conception happened I remember saying to my husband " something is happening inside my body, I have...
I was asked if I would carry my gay friend's child in two to four years. He was being completely serious.
I'm all for gay people adopting kids. It's COMPLETELY beyond me why ANYONE would choose to...
I have officially become a woman who can no longer precisely pinpoint the onset of nearing menses. How completely inconvenient. In the past months, I've started bleeding at the very beginning of a...
I can't imagine seeing a mother and child in our Congress. I love this woman and what this image represents.
Mrs Ronzulli, an MEP from Italy, took her tiny daughter Victoria to a vote at...
I'm addicted to Teen Mom. I watch every episode and I've been glued to my television since the new season started. All new moms and all new drama.
I'm always impressed at how these 16...
The transition from sexual being to pregnancy and childbirth is a long and rewarding journey. What does the road look like on the way back to reclaiming my body as a sexual being...here is my journey...
I have been in a funk for the last few weeks. That's what happens when five gay teens in one week commit suicide because they've been bullied. As a sex educator and mom, these events are devastating...
A new study found that mothers are more critical of their daughters and more indulgent of their sons. Susie Orbach shares her own experience:
This confirms what, as a psychoanalyst, I have been...
Breasts are everywhere. You can't watch an episode of the Real Housewives without gratuitous boobage. And most people would agree that big boobs can take you places as evidenced by The Girls Next...
We all have mommy issues, right? I'm sure they're much more personified if you're female.
I have been unhappy with the relationship with my mom for as long as I can remember. Not just unhappy, but...
I am feeling a strange sense of deja vu. Over a year ago I wrote a piece for the Huffington Post entitled, Those Bad Breasts. It was a story of news program that included a live self-breast exam in...