Mutha Magazine

Erika Kleinman on PREECLAMPSIA

February 19th, 2014 | by Erika Kleinman

At our four-month prenatal appointment, our midwife took my blood pressure and sat back, her eyes wide. “Whoa,” she said.

February 14th, 2014 | by Malaina Poore

I have two kids in middle school. Go ahead and feel sorry for them, and for me. Isis is 13

February 13th, 2014 | by Bronwyn Davies Glover

“I can prove your child’s gender!” I look blankly at a woman’s excited expression as she sits herself down beside

February 12th, 2014 | by Caroll Sun Yang

The death of my only child occurs to me on certain occasions that have no pertinence to death whatsoever. Death

February 12th, 2014 | by Frances Badalamenti

The morning after enduring twenty hours of sober-no-pain-drugs labor, two months after my mother died, I am sitting on the

February 11th, 2014 | by Jessica Patton Pellegrino

My husband, Moses, and I recently went to open house night at my stepkid’s high school. It was our first

February 10th, 2014 | by Jenny Heineman

18. There is another human being inside me who dreams her own dreams about colors and sensations. 19. The repetitive

January 31st, 2014 | by Danielle Leshaw

I am willing to homeschool my son. He’s almost eleven and in fifth grade. Right now, everything is fine. He

January 30th, 2014 | by Sarah Maria Medina

Before I knew I was pregnant with my daughter, I dreamed about her one night while I was still in

January 28th, 2014 | by Jane Lyn Lamb

A lot of things changed for me in 2013. Moving house, dealing with ongoing unemployment, celebrating our fourth wedding anniversary…but