Lauren Wilde

But the issue of children and who looks after them has become, in my view, profoundly political, and so it would be a contradiction to write a book about motherhood without explaining to some degree how I found the time to write it. For the first six months of Albertine’s life I looked after her at home while my partner continued to work. This

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If you experience pregnancy or infant loss, you may feel like you’re the only one who is going through what you’re going through. But about 10 to 20 percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriage before the 20th week. In 2022, the infant mortality rate in the United States was 5.6 deaths per 1,000 live births, a 3% increase from 2021. You are not... See more

“Even when they are asleep, infants as young as six months react negatively to angry, argumentative voices, as University of Oregon researchers discovered by measuring brain activity of babies in the presence of steadily rising voices. Babies raised by unhappily married parents have been shown to have a host of developmental problems, from delayed... See more