Community & Friendship

Friends, coworkers, neighbors: Motherly can help you navigate the community that supports you with advice and essays from real mamas.

Relationships

The real reason it’s so hard to make mom friends

If there are so many of us looking for more mom friends, then why is it so hard to actually make them?

Life

3 super easy places to start when you want to make mom friends

Where did you meet your most recent mom friend?

Community & Friendship

To the mama who doesn’t have a village

Raising a baby without grandparents nearby is hard because you have less emotional support.

Women's Health

What not to say when your friend has breast cancer (and what to say instead)

When a friend comes to us with bad news, we often struggle to find the right words. When a friend confides that they’ve just received a breast cancer diagnosis, we might struggle to find any words at all.

Life

To my sister who had kids before me: I’m sorry I didn’t get it

Now that I'm thinking back on it, I really had no clue about these 10 things.

Community & Friendship

To my friends who had kids before me: I am sorry I didn’t know

But now that I'm a mother, I do know. And I promise to pay it forward.

Community & Friendship

Sometimes motherhood can feel really lonely

The world is still out there, waiting for you to return to it.

Children's Health

10 crucial rules for visiting a newborn

When visiting a newborn, remember, it's about them, not you

Community & Friendship

I have no idea how to make mom friends—but I need them

One thing became abundantly clear: my introverted lifestyle needed to be seriously made over, and my only chance at surviving these childhood years would come in the form of a cross-body-bag-wearing, sleep-deprived carrier of small humans: another mom.