Motherhood

New research from UCLA suggests that the biological age of women who don’t sleep enough during the first year after they give birth to their babies was higher than women who did sleep enough.

Covid-19 has prompted many women to take time out to care for loved ones. What that could mean for their retirement income.

Ilana Glazer is expecting in real life, and so is her character in the Hulu horror film “False Positive.” She told us she’s been having incredibly odd dreams lately and explained the fear that went into the film.

“Imagine if not one candidate at any level of government had to consider the cost of child care when weighing their decision to run for office.”

We asked the cast of Netflix’s “The Upshaws” to apologize to their moms for Mother’s Day, so Wanda Sykes, Mike Epps and Kim Fields came clean to us about some bad things they did as kids. (We might’ve gotten Mike Epps in trouble.)

With all due respect to all the dads out there… it’s been a really, really (one more time so they can hear me in the back row) … really hellish year to be a mom. As the pandemic forced schools to shutter across the country and introduced us all to the unwelcome concept of remote homeschooling, mothers have largely borne...

“It’s not just women who suffer, it’s their entire family who’s going to suffer if we don’t pay them what they’re owed.”

The U.S. has high rates of infant mortality for a wealthy nation, and those rates are even higher for Black infants. Latham Thomas, founder of Mama Glow, explains the problem and potential policy fixes during Black Maternal Health Week.

The decision to start a family is always very personal and multi-faceted, but it becomes even more complex for those who have a history of mental health illness.

Dr. Erica Wymore of Children’s Hospital Colorado authored a study that found THC, the chemical that gets cannabis users high, can linger in breast milk for 6 weeks or more after a mother stops using the drug. The impact on newborns is still hard to study.

Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms, says the Biden Administration needs to end the economic devaluing of a mother’s work.

“If we’re going to build America back better, we’ve got to build motherhood back better.”

Since the pandemic began, more than 2 million women have left the workforce —at more than four times the rate of men — as they have been forced to shoulder the burden of child care and home schooling. Girls Who Code CEO Reshma Saujani spearheaded a public letter in The New York Times signed by 50 prominent women including Gabrielle...

District Motherhued aims to create a tight community of millennial mothers of color — and is now banding together to try and help struggling single moms purchase gifts this holiday season. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.