Rethinking Stretch Marks—Our Mom Tattoos
By HEATHER HOPSON When Beyonce’s bootylicous body bounced back four months after giving birth to Blue Ivy, many moms around the world sucked in their...
The Fatkini and Gabi Fresh: On Having A Real Belly and Being Real Fly
For the record? You couldn’t beat me into a bikini. Not even when I was 120 lbs, pre-baby—before the stretch marks, thick thighs, and stretched...
White Births In US No Longer Majority: The Coloring Of America
Our country, settled by white Europeans and riddled with the troubled racial legacy of slavery, bitter civil rights battles and an awful anti-immigration stance, has...
WTF: Cop Kicks Pregnant Mom-To-Be In Stomach—Department Says He’s Justified
Just writing this sentence hurts me and pisses me off to the core: An Atlanta-area cop is under criminal investigation for dropkicking a pregnant woman...
Hospital Bullies: Doctors Try To Berate Mom Into Giving Up On Her Unborn Twin Sons
Hers is an incredible story of heartbreak and hope, tragedy and triumph, fear and courage, weakness and strength—and for anyone who has ever fought for...
Facebook Pregnancy Pact: Black Teens Proudly Show Off Group Baby Bumps
News of pregnancy always has been a cause for celebration in my book—new life, a little baby, is a beautiful blessing. A miracle. But this...
LaLa Ponders Baby No. 2 With Carmelo: Deciding If It’s Time For Another Child
Last night on La La’s Full Court Press, La La Anthony, wife of New York Knicks basketball phenom Carmelo Anthony, spent the whole of the...
Pregnant Love & Hip Hop stars Kimbella and Yandy Go Clubbing: Would You Belly Bounce In a Club?
I know, I know—what in the world is MyBrownBaby doing talking about the juicy, gossipy, champagne glass-tossing, knock-down-drag-out VH1 reality show, “Love & Hip Hop,”...
Birthing While Black In the Jim Crow South Stole My Grandmother: Thankfully, Things Change
Welcome to the First Edition of the Black Birth Carnival, hosted by Darcel of The Mahogany Way Birth Cafe and Nicole of Musings From The...
An Unlimited Supply of Eggs? Exciting Breakthrough for Couples Battling with Infertility
By NICK CHILES A new scientific breakthrough could be wonderful news for future couples going through the trials of infertility: scientists have discovered that human...
