For moms becoming themselves while raising tiny humans. Honest essays on motherhood, fertility, identity, and ambition.
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I got laid off. Then Substack brought me 3 contracts and a whole new squad.
Sometime back in June, a woman slid into my DMs. Is that something people say when we’re talking about Substack? Well, you heard it here, so maybe it is now.
She wrote to tell me that an article I published for Nanit about the joy that com...
The Time I Paid a Stranger to Feel Me Up
Note: This is a guest post and the sixth installment in the Becoming Mom Real Talk series where I create space for other women to share their journey to becoming a mom. This essay discusses infertility and pregnancy loss. Please take care w...
My Nana Raised 8 Kids. Some of Her Best Parenting Advice Was Just 3 Words.
After raising eight children and embracing nineteen grandchildren, my Nana knew that letting perfect become the enemy of the good would get you nowhere fast.
You’re doin’ it,” she would often say, which was her shorthand for something I’m...
Two Moms, Two Hardships, One Comfort Show
A note before reading: This essay discusses pregnancy loss, infant medical trauma, and childhood illness. Please take care while reading—or save it for a time when these subjects feel less tender.
A note from us together:
We are no...
10 Ways the Maternal Health System Could Better Serve Moms
As our system stands right now, maternal healthcare is treated as the end of pregnancy rather than the beginning of a mother’s recovery. We have to change that.
Here are the 10 areas where I think we need to see the most improvement to hel...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Essays on motherhood, fertility, identity, and the bumps along the way that shape us into the mothers we’re becoming. For women still figuring it all out.
From a medical mom, for moms navigating the hard, beautiful, ordinary parts of life. Stories, perspective & reminders to notice the good. Come for the stories. Leave encouraged.
Founder of To Life Primary Care in DC/MD. Chief Medical Officer of Montgomery Hospice. Childbirth doula. Mom to 6 little joyful kids.
I study what motherhood does to the psyche, the identity, the body — then I throw a dance party about it. Psychotherapist. Co-founder of MFT/The Mom Dance Party. Writing here on matrescence, the mental load, and the insistence that moms deserve joy.
Amy Gallo Ryan is a Brooklyn-based writer whose personal essays have appeared in Vogue, Lit Hub and Hippocampus. Her infertility memoir, You May Feel a Bit of Pressure won a 2026 National Indie Excellence Award.
CEO of RESOLVE, fighting for everyone’s right to build a family.
Nicole is a mom, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She wrote this deeply personal essay for her sister Vaughan’s “Real Talk” series in hopes that more honest conversations around infertility, marriage, and motherhood help women feel less alone.
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