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PODCAST #3: Is Class Over Yet?
For most of us lucky enough to be able to stop working and stay home with our babies, we wouldn’t have it any other way. But at the same time it can be really overwhelming … and then, after awhile,...
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PODCAST #23: The Longest Longest Time
Lisa tried to have a baby. And then she tried some more. She tried and tried and tried and tried. In all kinds of ways. For 11 years. All of that trying eventually led to that little hand you see...
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PODCAST #25: The Provider’s Guide to Quitting
Bry Webb was a punk rock star. For 11 years, he was the lead singer and songwriter in the Constantines. Yelling into a mike, jumping around onstage—it was what he knew best. But when Bry realized he...
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Several of our podcast stories, including yesterday’s, have involved miscarriages. As we discussed in episode #23, we rarely talk about miscarriage openly, and that can mean a lot of bottled up...
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PODCAST #29: The Shortest Day
All this month we’ve been digging deep into the subject of natural childbirth. First I attempted to rewrite the way I tell my own traumatic birth story; then I asked homebirth guru Ina May Gaskin if...
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PODCAST #35: Picturing Her
Fourteen years ago, a good friend of photographer Thomas Roma died unexpectedly, and it made him afraid of dying, too. He suddenly felt an urgent need to connect with his 8-year-old son Giancarlo, so...
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PODCAST #45: Love Yurts
When my friend Perry gets his mind set on something, he goes big. Like the time he went as scissors (in a rock-paper-scissors trio) for Halloween and he made blades for his legs that could really cut....
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PODCAST #48: The Parents’ Guide to Doing It
Welcome to our Sex & Parenthood series! We’re so glad you’re here. It is high time we talk about this topic in the bold, head-on way that it deserves. We’re kicking off the series with some real,...
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EPISODE #57: Sixty-Five Women and a Baby
Three days after Whitney Baker gave birth to her son Jay, she and her husband Bret bundled him up in the car and drove him home. To a sorority. The Bakers with the sorority girls on one of their...
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EPISODE #65: Kids Ask About Death
Parenting truth: kids ask crazy questions. My kid’s latest kick? Death. She asks when I’m gonna die, when she’s gonna die. Will we be buried together? How many WAYS are there to die? No, I mean it,...
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EPISODE #73: Love Yurts
When my friend Perry gets his mind set on something, he goes big. Like the time he went as scissors (in a rock-paper-scissors trio) for Halloween and he made blades for his legs that could really cut....
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EPISODE #81: The Accidental Gay Parents, 4
We continue our saga with Trystan and Biff. When we left off, things were tough. They’re about to get tougher. Tune in to hear the unlikely technique for what breaks their passive-aggressive standoff....
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EPISODE #105: Uterus + Sperm + Uterus
We’re back, with the second half of last week’s show, Uterus + Sperm. If you haven’t heard that episode yet, go listen to it before this one. And, SPOILER ALERT: listen all the way through before...
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EPISODE #147: Awkward Adventures in Infertility
John Murray and Silvija Ozels perform sketch comedy together at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York. And a few years back, John came to Silvija with a topic for a new comedy show: infertility....
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EPISODE #152: The Sisterhood of “Donor Don”
A couple weeks ago, we asked you to tell us YOUR mom (and dad)-ventures — the stories of how you went from wanting kids to having them. And… whoa, did you people come through! You told us about raising...
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EPISODE #154: Let’s Get Unladylike
Cristen Conger and Caroline Ervin have been proudly saying the word “vagina” into microphones for almost a decade now. On their podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You, they’d nerd out about feminist...
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Episode #161: Imaginary Friends & Grown-ups
Last week, we brought you stories from the bizarre and wonderful world of imaginary friends. And as we were putting that episode together, it became increasingly clear that there was someone we really...
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EPISODE #186: Lucy Knisley Redraws Her Birth Story
Lucy Knisley has captured most of her life in comics. She’s also always been fascinated by motherhood, pregnancy, and childbirth since she was a little kid (watching Murphy Brown on TV, and dressing up...
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EPISODE #204: Breaking Cycles (and Chairs!) with Kulap Vilaysack
Actress and comedian Kulap Vilaysack knew she had a complicated past. She was happy to put it in a box until a time she felt ready to confront it. That time came in her early thirties, when she started...
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EPISODE #147: Awkward Adventures in Infertility
John Murray and Silvija Ozels perform sketch comedy together at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York. And a few years back, John came to Silvija with a topic for a new comedy show: infertility....
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