While birth order is known to influence people’s personality traits and behavior, whether you’re the cautious firstborn or the risk-taking youngest child, that’s not the only way it affects your life.
The author and her daughter Kessler's first selfie together on the day she was born. Even as a first-time mother, I thought I understood childbirth. I’d spent my pregnancy preparing for every ...
Erica Stern’s essay “Giving Birth to My First Child Was Traumatic. I Wanted a Redo” (Review, Oct. 25) resonated with me. Our second child is in the neonatal intensive care unit. We and many others can ...