Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced a new HHS initiative intended to “curb psychiatric overprescribing” by promoting “appropriate prescribing” and encouraging doctors to wean their…
You show up at your friend’s house excited to meet the new baby. But when she opens the door, she doesn’t look like the tired-but-glowing new mom you’d imagined. Something…
One (very) early morning after my son was born, I went into his room to change his clothes and diaper after a bottle. I turned to toss his spit-up-covered sleeper…
Social media, it seems, will never run out of new buzzy health trends that make me, as a health reporter for over a decade, want to rip my hair out.…
I don’t usually take parenting advice from celebrities. But I once saw a clip of Kate Winslet that stuck with me. On an episode of Running Wild with Bear Grylls,…
Again and again, dietitians and pediatricians have told Scary Mommy the same thing — even picky children likely get enough nutrition from their diet and giving them a multivitamin isn’t…
Mom guilt is so embedded in motherhood that it has its own colloquialism. It’s pervasive, it’s persistent, and for many moms, it begins the moment their baby is born. But…
Postpartum depression (PPD) is just the baby blues, a short-lived internal firestorm of hormones after childbirth, right? And hormones are just punchlines in late-night sitcoms. So what’s the big deal?…
Whether you’re shopping for the mom who’s been quietly swapping out her household products one by one, or the one who will genuinely tear up over a clean sunscreen, we’ve…
A $300 red light therapy mask so I look less bedraggled, a weekend-long reading retreat at an all-inclusive resort, a fitness wearable that tracks my sleep and gives me AI-generated…
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