May is here—which means it’s officially Mother’s Month! While we believe in celebrating Mother’s Day all year around, it’s definitely worth it to make an extra effort on May 12, 2024. Which is where today’s deluxe gift guide comes in handy. Filled with over 60 crowd-pleasing ideas, we’ve got Mother’s Day gifts for the Homebody Mom, the New & Expecting Mom, the Foodie Mom, and more! Enjoy! Need more Mothers Day gifting ideas? Check out our recent Mother Essentials column for ideas from dozens of cool mamas. The post 60+ Crowd Pleasing Mother’s Day Gifts appeared first on MOTHER ..read more

Seeds of desire sow a tender green reality for all 12 signs this May. Beyond springtime clichés, Taurus’s tendency toward correctly recognizing value turns the soil for a healthy glut of gifts. The fertility of the season is yours to shape and mold. Yet, we’d all do well to transcend the ego’s earthly hunger and develop tastes for something more profound: An innate goal or yearning that directs life’s destiny. A New Moon in Taurus on May 7th sets the table and serves an exquisite menu of opportunity. Serendipity seems effortless, and new endeavors evolve with unexpected plot twists and thrilli ..read more

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Before I had children, I assumed they’d be two years apart. “That way they’ll be close,” I explained, as if I had a clue. Then I became pregnant with my first child. Severe nausea and exhaustion clung to me the entire pregnancy, and the labor was not easy. When I finally held my sweet boy for the first time, I could not imagine going through that experience again any time soon. When he turned two, I was in physical therapy for a gnarly shoulder injury, while my husband pursued the clinical requirements for his master’s degree. Adding another human to our lives felt outlandish. Another year-and ..read more

The current life of Alex Elle looks a bit different from the time we first profiled her in 2017. Back then, she was the mother of one child and trying to conceive another. Fast forward two and a half years, and we once again visited Alex in her home, this time in her brand-new nursery, with a toddler in tow and baby #3 on the way. Besides growing her family (her three kiddos are now ages 6 through 16), other things have changed for Alex, too. In 2022, the Maryland resident became a New York Times bestseller (for How To Heal) and she’s created numerous collaborations with a variety of brands, t ..read more

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This year marks 10 years of Storq (!), the minimal maternity brand known for comfortable, stylish, and practical essentials for pregnancy, breastfeeding, and all those child wrangling days ahead. Co-founders Courtney Klein and Grace Kapin—who’ve become mothers themselves over the past decade—are all about clothing that doesn’t scream “maternity,” but instead seamlessly blends into your current wardobe (think: roomy button-ups, stretchy leggings, and classic tank dresses). They’ve also recently extended their interest in the practical (and delightful) with their parenting-themed Substack,  ..read more

Postpartum depression is different for every person who experiences it. In the case of New Jersey-based writer and mom Loren Kleinman, her depression lead to a psychiatric emergency when she was just a month postpartum with her daughter, Lily (now 4). Even if postpartum depression is not something you’ve dealt with, her deeply personal story is something we think every mother can relate to. Life before Lily was a hazy blend of ambitions, dreams, and snapshots of what motherhood would look like: quiet nights with lullabies and nursery rhymes, afternoons filled with smiles, and the unmatched joy ..read more

The person I credit for making motherhood even a possible life choice for me, in that she returned the role to its core—an experience of beauty, however complicated or fraught, but not a prize—was the author and mother of Fais, a force and creative delight on her own, Katya Apekina. Before that, I was finding myself bogged down by what the role was “supposed to look like.” Katya is free from much of the atmospheric noise that surrounds us, and she has been this way, intuitively, for as long as I’ve known her. How does she do it? I don’t know, which is why I sleep with her novels under my head ..read more

We have all heard the philosophical question: “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound?” Over the past 10 years, I have asked myself a more difficult question: “If a pregnant woman never gets to parent the child she’s carrying, is she still a mother?” There are countless times I have struggled with this question since losing my own child. Were people supposed to wish me happy Mother’s Day? When someone asked me if I had kids, was I allowed to say “Yes, his name is Leo”? How could I prove to others that I was a mother if I had no child to hold? But most ..read more