Covid

Here’s where you can still buy hand sanitizers right now

If you can't add them to your grocery order, try one of these.

Essential workers need childcare, so grandparents are filling the gap

Despite the risk.

Animal shelters are seeing more dogs get adopted than ever before

Dogs are finding their forever homes and it's the good news we totally needed today.

How the pandemic will impact your child’s long-term emotional health

There's good news, mama.

This is mothering in a pandemic

We are not meant to live in isolation.

I am done living in crisis mode

I would obsess over news reports and death rates and the endless cycle of bad news. I decided—I can't live this way.

How to raise an optimistic child in a pessimistic world

While the news is hard right now, you've got all the tools you need to make the world a better place.

Lost your cool with your child? Here are 5 easy steps to reconnect

Parenting during a pandemic means we're going to lose our cool sometimes—it's what happens afterward that really counts.

The unexpected COVID-19 symptom parents need to know about

What you need to know about "COVID toes."

How to combat postpartum depression and anxiety during COVID-19

7 expert ways to start to feel better

These viral bump photos from the front lines share an important message

It's a perfect way to capture the dualism of pregnancy: This woman is both vulnerable and strong.

Sesame Street & CNN team up to help explain COVID-19 to your kids

The 90-minute special "will tackle issues including education, anxiety, screen time and playdates," CNN states.

Delivering a baby during a pandemic turned out to be a blessing in disguise

This time, it was just my husband and me. The room was quiet. No chaos of visitors. The conversations were just between us. Just the two of us for the first time in six and a half years.

10 questions kids have about coronavirus (& how to answer them)

"When is all this going to end?"

20+ ideas for what to binge-watch during quarantine

We asked our staff what they're watching right now and they delivered.

Pregnant women about to give birth need COVID-19 testing

As many as 1 in 8 moms are asymptomatic.

Microsoft is giving an extra 12 weeks of paid leave to parents because of coronavirus

Parents said school closures changed their lives and their employer listened.

Coronavirus has changed birth + postpartum forever

It shouldn't take a global pandemic to change the way our country supports women, but since it did, let's hope these changes stick.

Everything we know (so far) about giving birth during the COVID-19 pandemic

So far, it does not appear that COVID-19 can be transmitted from a pregnant woman to her fetus.

I tested positive for COVID-19—life is paused completely, until further notice

Even though we have made it through more than half of our mandatory quarantine already, I'm terrified by the thought of leaving again—even when I'm cleared to.