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Starter Kit: Home Remedies for a Pain-Free Sex Life

While you muster the energy to find a specialist to help heal your childbirth injury, these home remedies will help you feel a little more whole.

We’re in Mutha!

Check out Meg Lemke’s interview in Mutha with Hillary on why she started LST, parental judging, and our natural birth series. The Longest Shortest Time may earn a small commission from products linked on this site. Using our affiliate links helps support our work.

EPISODE #41: How to Be a Pregnant Butch

Artist A.K. Summers on her fabulous graphic memoir Pregnant Butch, and what it’s like to try to look tough and masculine while your body is growing a baby.

EPISODE #38: Pediatricians, They’re Just Like Us

Pediatrician Jessica Franklin figured she had a handle on newborns. But then she had a baby and wound up feeling like the “worst, most educated rookie ever.”

EPISODE #35: Picturing Her

When Giancarlo Roma was four years old, his sister Mary died the day she was born—an experience that he says trained him to write a book from the perspective of an elderly woman.

10 Movies That Won’t Make You Cry After Having a Baby

New moms need stuff to watch during never-ending feeding sessions. Problem is, almost everything makes us cry. Movie Date podcast comes to the rescue with 10 movies that won’t bring on the waterworks. But the hosts have vastly different ideas about what that means.

EPISODE #31: How to Brag to Your Mom Friends

Is it possible to share your parenting triumphs with other moms, or is it only okay to bitch?

I Talk Natural Birth with Brian Lehrer

In honor of Mother’s Day (and my recent partnership with WNYC), I go on the Brian Lehrer Show to talk about what I’ve learned from digging deep into my own birth story and interviewing Ina May Gaskin. The Longest Shortest Time may earn a small commission from products linked on this site. Using our affiliate […]