Parent trap: why the cult of the perfect mother has to end
Worldwide, mothers are overworked, underpaid, often lonely and made to feel guilty about everything from epidurals to bottle feeding. Fixing this is the unfinished work of feminism
‘Raising a child without a village is doable – but lonely’: readers on the highs and lows of having a lockdown baby
Bringing a baby into the world can be tough at the best of times, and the pandemic has been far from that. Readers reflect on the pain and joy of new parenthood
A maddening grief: my year of miscarriages and how I got through it
Navigating an uncharted landscape, I found solace in an unlikely place
Monzo bank to offer employees paid leave after pregnancy loss
Either partner can take up to 10 days’ leave after miscarriage, stillbirth or abortion in UK digital bank’s policy
‘Stop the Breast Pest’: MP’s ‘horror’ at being photographed while breastfeeding
Stella Creasy launches campaign to change law after a boy took pictures of her feeding her baby on a train
The city my grandfather used to call home no longer exists – except in our minds
After his death, I wanted to know more about his life, and the city that made him and very nearly killed him, says Michael Segalov
Home Office sued by asylum seeker over baby’s death
Woman claims asylum housing staff ignored pleas for help when she was in pain while 35 weeks pregnant
Laura Dockrill on parenting, paranoia and postpartum psychosis: ‘I thought I’d been hijacked by a devil’
A month after the birth of her son, the writer and illustrator was on suicide watch in a psychiatric ward, experiencing severe delusions. Now her podcast is raising awareness of a condition that affects one in a thousand new mothers
Experience: I carried a twin in each of my wombs
The medical staff had never seen anything like it. They told us the chances were one in 50 million
The social biome: how to build nourishing friendships – and banish loneliness
All your daily interactions with others, big and small, make up your social biome, and the pandemic has severely damaged most of ours. Here’s how to reinvigorate it