Pregnancy
A Delivery Room Stand-Off
Ah, the politics of the delivery room guest list. An expectant mom needs help on setting boundaries with her overbearing mother-in-law.
Pregnancy
Second Baby Shower Blues When You’re In Need
A mom is in financial need of being showered for her second baby but is concerned about the baby shower etiquette and politics of the South. Amalah helps out with some ideas.
Pregnancy
Pregnancy & Cross-Continental Family Guilt Trips
An expectant mom is feeling lots of pressure from her parents to deliver her baby in her homeland rather than in her adopted country. This decision is weighing heavily on her and causing anxiety.
Pregnancy
Hosting the Perfect Post-Birth Party
What’s a Sip-and-See? Is it a real thing? How does it work? What’s the gift etiquette? Amalah to the rescue.
Pregnancy
Dealing with Coworkers’ Inappropriate Pregnancy Comments
Expectant reader writes in to ask advice on how to respond to her co-workers who are making inappropriate and rude comments about her pregnant belly size.
Pregnancy
The Anxiety-Inducing Mother-In-Law
When you know you need to set boundaries with your mother-in-law, especially as life becomes more intertwined with a baby on the way, but don’t know how.
Baby
On Life With Three
A reader follows-up with Amalah asking her how life looks like now raising three kids.
Pregnancy
Depressed Over Pregnancy Weight Gain
We are far less concerned about this expectant mom’s weight gain than we are about her feelings about her weight gain.
Pregnancy
Families, Pregnancy & WAY TOO MUCH ADVICE
An expectant mom is experiencing high anxiety from the extraordinary amount of very detailed and unsolicited advice she is getting from her mother and in-laws so early in her pregnancy. She needs help setting boundaries.
Pregnancy
Is It Safe? Hot Yoga During Pregnancy
A reader asks whether it is safe to continue practicing hot yoga now that she’s pregnant.
Pregnancy
Surprise Pregnancy at a Crossroads
A newly pregnant woman feels as if she is being forced to make some very big emotional and logistical decisions given her recent pregnancy news and her father’s terminal cancer diagnosis. But does she have other choices?
Pregnancy
Toxic Families, Secret Pregnancies & Starting Over
Now that she’s expecting, a mom-to-be needs advice on how to maintain her relationship with one family member given that she has cut ties with all the rest of the toxic family.
Pregnancy
Is This My Last-Chance Baby?
What happens when you’re facing 40, staring at menopause and yelling, “Back off, sister, my uterus has more work to do!”
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Books for Fathers-to-Be
An expectant mom is in search of pregnancy and baby book recommendations for her husband. We’ve got some ideas but would love your opinions as well!
Pregnancy
The Etiquette of Baby Shower Guest Lists
An expectant mom is being pressured to have a postpartum baby shower by her husband’s family and friends. What are her alternatives?
Pregnancy
What to Expect (From Your Infertile Friends) When You’re Expecting
An expectant woman is concerned about her relationship with her friend with infertility and the recent chilly reception she has be getting from her. She needs relationship advice.
Pregnancy
The Public Domain Pregnant Belly
What do you say and or do to people who try to touch your pregnant belly?
Pregnancy
Nesting Instinct in Overdrive
An expectant mom is having a very strong nesting urges but needs her super supportive husband to clean up his office first. What can she do nesting-wise to appease her urge without upsetting her husband, too.
Pregnancy
How to Throw Yourself A Baby Shower That Isn’t Tacky
Doesn’t look like anyone will be throwing this expectant mom a baby shower. How can she celebrate the arrival of her baby with a party she throws herself without it looking tacky? Is it possible?
Pregnancy
Bad Combo: Friendships, Pregnancies, and Jealousy
A pregnant reader is being shunned and hurt by a friend who is jealous and hurt because she and her husband have decided not to have children. She wants to know whether her friendship is salvageable?