All posts by Amanda Low
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My Mother-In-Law Thinks My Daughter Is Going To Hell
At this point, I was indignant, but not surprised. Ever since my MIL married a conservative Southern Baptist...
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My Daughter’s Daycare Teacher Has Been Charged With Abuse
My first impression of Jessie was that she was a bit distant with the kids—the first time I...
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8 Things Not To Say To An Extended Breastfeeding Mom
Just about everyone I know showered me with praise for breastfeeding my newborn. But those same people who...
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Baby Blues: I Had ‘Baby Blues’ Before I Had PPD
I did have the "baby blues," for sure. But when my daughter was born, I didn’t just feel...
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Baby Blues: As A Former Psych Ward Patient, I Don’t Condone Committing Women With Unwanted Pregnancies
Yesterday, Koa Beck wrote about the proposed change in Irish abortion laws that could deny abortions to...
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I’m Afraid Not ‘Keeping Up With The Joneses’ Does A Disservice To My Daughter
I never lived in an apartment when I was a child, and even though my parents struggled a...
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Baby Blues: Sometimes It’s Harder To Cope With The Manic Highs Of Motherhood Than The Lows
There’s this misconception about depressed people that we’re depressed all the time. I imagine some of you might...
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I Was A Super Judgey Parent-To-Be Sanctimommy
When I was pregnant and elbow-deep in parenting books, I was quick to formulate opinions and horribly stubborn...
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Baby Blues: I Tried To Make Good Changes For My PPD & All I Got Was This Lousy Emotional Breakdown
Days later, serious shit went down between me and my husband. We determined we could no longer afford...
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Climate Change Is Coming To Public Schools And I’m Ecstatic
New nationwide standards are incorporating climate change into the public school science curricula, to which I say, fantastic,...
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Rick Ross Gets Disturbingly Braggy About Date-Raping Unconscious Girls In Song, ‘You Don’t Even Know It’
People are rightfully up in arms about the blatant references to date rape in Rick Ross’s new song,...
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Disabled Mom Shows Us All Up By Changing Diapers With Her Teeth
Just when I thought caring for a 16-month-old while coping with a brutal sinus infection was the worst,...
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DWTS Teen Competitor Zendaya Is Stuck Between Sexy And A Hard Place
Come time for her to do the sultrier dances like the rumba (nicknamed “a vertical expression of a...
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Baby Blues: The Isolation Of Motherhood Makes My PPD Worse
Motherhood is many things: primal, competitive, loving, complicated, necessary But one of its many definitions doesn’t make...
