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After years of navigating IVF and months of antenatal anxiety, a close friend of mine gave birth recently. A few days after she came home from the hospital, I texted her, “How are you doing?”

She answered the way many new mothers do, “The baby is doing great.”

I wrote back, “I mean, how are you doing?” It’s a question we ask new mothers all the t...


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Even before her daughter was born, Noelle knew she wanted to pump. “The idea of breastfeeding just made me uncomfortable,” she says. But after giving birth, she felt unmoored — and had zero guidance. “There was no lactation coach to come in to talk with me, even about pumping correctly,” she says. “I felt like I was on my own.” She took matters into her own hands, joining mom...


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