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Friends, coworkers, neighbors: Motherly can help you navigate the community that supports you with advice and essays from real mamas.
"You need hands. You need help," says Simmons. "It is so exhausting, and there's so many pieces to it."
I am the mother I am because of the collective group of women I have in my life.
Thank you for letting me text you 10 messages in a row detailing what my kiddo is melting down over. Multiple times. At various points on various days.
Thank you for being a constant, positive and loving presence in his life, just like you are in mine.
The flood of private messages after my baby’s birth was just what I needed. I just wish it wasn’t such a secret.
Sometimes getting the help we need is as simple as asking for it.
There’s no greater gift than to be invited into another person’s truth.
For the one who's doing it all and giving it her all, you amaze me every day.
Peanut's app founder Michelle Kennedy writes a letter to her mom BFF.
These days, my friendships are few, but they are rich.
Build up your village?
Thank you for being my person.
“I believe every life comes with a message. Many of those messages are ignored. Our children’s aren’t.”
Without knowing it, my sister was teaching me how to be a mother myself.
A whole new friendship circle awaits. Promise.
Love me and I’ll be grateful for your friendship; love my babies, too, and I will do anything in the world for you.
“Back in the day you would have your aunts and cousins and everyone would help you raise your kids. It still takes a village.”
There's always someone to hang out with at family functions!
Laughing over wine + apps in a dimly lit, cool restaurant sounds like a magical dream world you can’t wait to visit.
You offer me a space to be vulnerable and to feel safe. A place to be a mother, but also a full person outside of motherhood.
