The Longest Shortest Time

EPISODE #96: The Parents’ Guide to Doing It with Esther Perel

How do you keep the fire alive? Can motherhood awaken your inner lesbian? Couples therapist and author Esther Perel answers YOUR sex advice questions.

EPISODE #95: The True History of a Child Chef & His Mom

Judah is 12. He makes a mean beef wellington. Hear how he became a child chef, and how his mom had him when she was just a kid herself.

EPISODE #93: Anna Sale on Becoming a Mom

Death, Sex & Money host Anna Sale on her parents, her baby, a trampoline, and potato chips.

EPISODE #91: I Ate My Placenta for My Best Friend

When you’re lucky enough to have a best friend, you’d do anything for them.

EPISODE #90: A Childless Man Makes Edible Placenta

Radiolab’s Latif Nasser learns how to turn a placenta into pills, and why it’s become a trend for new moms to consume this organ.

EPISODE #87: The Mortality of Motherhood

We check back in with NPR’s Kelly McEvers on what it’s been like to readjust to American life with her 7-year-old, after a long stint as a Middle East correspondent.

EPISODE #85: Dispatches from Black Motherhood

Anthonia Akitunde went looking for websites about Black working moms that broke stereotypes. She came up empty. So she started her own.

EPISODE #84: My Best Friend’s Baby

Two friends try to figure out how to stay friends after one of them has a baby. The one without the baby hatches a secret plan.