Jamina Bone has always been good with kids. She loved babysitting and being a nanny so much, she decided to get a degree in special education to continue to work with kids. When she had her first baby, she took to motherhood quickly. But after giving birth to her second daughter, the Kansas City-based mom […]
A Colorado restaurant packed with customers over Mother’s Day weekend in violation of state health orders and without social distancing practices in place has been ordered shut by officials for “causing an imminent health hazard.” C&C Coffee and Kitchen in Castle Rock had its license suspended indefinitely on Monday “until it can be established that […]
Westend61 via Getty ImagesMany people deal with painful emotions on Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day is not a fun and joyous holiday for everyone. For people who have experienced trauma like the loss of a mother or child, the occasion can spur painful emotions that require coping mechanisms to get through. But this year amid the […]
What a manicure taught me about love, happiness, and my mom. Growing up, my mom was always somewhat of a mystery to me and that was especially true on Mother’s Day. My mom loved to celebrate with spa trips, salons, and shopping. She always invited me along but I didn’t enjoy those things at all […]
Imagine for a moment that you’re a very silly 22-year-old driving through Florida sometime around 2009. You’re speeding down a road called Alligator Alley at approximately 92 miles an hour, which is about 20 miles above the speed limit. It’s late. Maybe the windows are down. Maybe the music is blaring. Maybe you’re singing offkey. […]
I met Allyson Felix on a slightly drizzly day in June at a studio space in West Hollywood. She was there to shoot the photos accompanying this profile; I stopped by a few hours earlier than our allotted time ostensibly to find a spot for our interview, take a peek at the photos, and meet […]
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) made an impassioned plea on Wednesday urging the country to focus on the high rate of maternal mortality in black women. “Black women in America are three to four times more like to die than white women because they choose to become mothers and want to raise those children to be […]
Money has been called the mother’s milk of politics, which may help explain why the Trump administration attempted earlier this year to help infant formula manufacturers by squashing a World Health Organization resolution that encouraged breastfeeding. Three of the largest infant formula companies ― U.S.-based Abbott Laboratories, Swiss-based Nestle, and U.K.-based Reckitt Benckiser ― have […]
A hospital trust has been criticised for describing mothers who use formula milk as “artificially” feeding babies. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust made the comment in a letter that said it would no longer provide formula milk in its maternity units to mothers who had decided not to breastfeed. One woman who said she had […]