Parenting Emma Chao/Romper; Getty Images Baby back-cracking is all over our algorithms now. And pediatricians are concerned. In 2022, Natalie Mitchell welcomed her first child. A few weeks in, Mitchell’s pediatrician began pressuring her to get her…

Caroline Wurtzel/Romper; Getty Images; Shutterstock It was the summer of 2018, and Ann O’Neill was pregnant with her fourth baby — another boy. By all standards, this pregnancy, like her others, was healthy and low risk. On the morning before her due…

When the TikTok algorithm started to serve me videos about wake windows, my son was 2 weeks old, and my husband had just gone back to the office. My newborn slept in weird spurts throughout the day (as newborns tend to do), and at night, he woke up…

When the Fisher-Price Rock ’n Play was introduced in 2009, it had everything a new parent could want. Its lightweight frame and foldability meant you could move it easily around your house. Sleeping on a flat surface can trigger an infant's startle…

Experts fear that it will be low-income parents and babies who will pay the price for Trump's trade war.

miniseries/E+/Getty Images “We almost made it,” I thought, as I sat with my 14-month-old son in the emergency room. He was stripped down to his diaper and sprawled against me, simultaneously shivering and sweating profusely. He was barely responsive,…

hobo_018/E+/Getty Images Three years after the Covid-19 pandemic began, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have finally announced what seems like a permanent plan for Covid vaccines: get your initial doses, and then one updated jab…

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED Getty/Shutterstock Forget your newborn’s sleep schedule and focus on yours. Seriously. New Parents Issue 2024 From the time your algorithm clocks that you’re pregnant, it begins: the slow trickling in of baby care content. Before…

Danielle Robinson, 43, packed extra underwear to take to work each day when she was trying to finish her Ph.D. in neuroscience. After delivering her son and sustaining internal and external tearing during his birth, she needed to have backup pairs in…