Health

Pregnancy

5 rules for using essential oils safely during pregnancy

Your primer on how to use essential oils when expecting.

Women's Health

It’s Science: Climate change is a women’s health issue

Weather shifts and natural disasters hit women and children hardest. Here’s how to help

Children's Health

5 ways to protect your baby’s microbiome after birth

The choices you make today can impact your baby’s health tomorrow.

Safety

5 water safety tips to share with all your kids’ caregivers this summer

The founder of Goldfish Swim School shares her top tips for keeping kids safe around the water this summer.

Celebrity News

The Home Edit star reveals breast cancer diagnosis—and the obstacles she faced from the healthcare system

If I can convince any of you to self-examine on a regular basis, self-advocate always, and to prioritize your health over your busy schedules - then this will have meant something.

Children's Health

The Sunday Scaries can plague kids, too

Experts give advice on how to help your child cope.

It's Science

Diabetes drug in fathers could raise risk of birth defects in babies

While more research is needed, the new study highlights the fact that men’s health before conception matters, too.

Motherly Stories

Friendly reminder: Childbirth doesn’t ‘ruin’ your body

You are beautiful. Your body is beautiful.

Motherly Stories

The pain of watching your parent’s health decline when you’re a mom is brutal—and you aren’t alone

If you too are part of the “the sandwich generation”, if you have lost a parent, if you are watching a parent die, if you are seeing a loved one’s health decline, you aren’t alone. 

Women's Health

No, nothing happens to your eggs the day you turn 35

Here’s why being considered ‘advanced maternal age’ isn’t such a bad thing.

It's Science

Could a real, actual male birth control pill be in our future?

This seems promising: A new animal study showed a non-hormonal male contraceptive was 99% effective.

Fitness

5 Pilates moves that are safe for postpartum

The right moves can boost circulation and promote healing after birth.

Fitness

An overlooked tool in pregnancy and birth? Breathwork

Let’s get back to the inhale, exhale, mama.

Season 10

Alex Elle on generational healing and community care

Author, breathwork coach and podcast host Alex Elle joins Liz on the Motherly Podcast to talk about her journey with IVF and her idea of self care as community care.

Infertility

How to reduce stress while trying to conceive

Learning strategies for stress reduction can help you navigate the numerous ups and downs that come with trying to conceive.

Our Partners

How to prepare for postpartum at home

How to prepare for postpartum at home The must-have products you need…

Women's Health

Can you get pregnant on your period?

Sorry to break it to you, but yes. Here’s how it can—and does—happen.

Our Partners

5 ways to help strengthen kids’ immune system this cold & flu season

5 ways to help strengthen kids’ immune system this cold & flu…

Viral & Trending

Premature baby finally gets to go home after spending 460 days in the NICU

Baby Kendall was born in December 2020 and only weighed 15 ounces when he was born at 25 weeks.

Mental Health

Dreading pregnancy or childbirth? It may be tokophobia 

Fear of giving birth can exist on a spectrum, but tokophobia is a rare, severe form. It may cause some women to elect for a C-section or avoid pregnancy altogether.