Sarah Murphy was living at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, a maximum security prison, in Bedford Hills, N.Y., while pregnant in 2018. Murphy had a cesarean section in a hospital, then returned to Bedford Hills with her son three days…

“Will I have children?” is a question often hedged on romantic compatibility with future partners, and not one I’d ever actively asked myself. I was given a partial answer to the question at 26 — not when I met my future husband, but when I…

Our resident advice-giver-outer Jenny True provides shouty, full-hearted answers to your niggling questions about pregnancy and parenthood in her column Dear Jenny. Warning: This is not a baby-and-me singalong, this is about yelling into the cosmos…

When you opt to take the red pill and buy an Elf on the Shelf package, you get a doll with a pointy hat, plastic head, and limp red fabric body, as well as a book that explains the tradition of the elf, an official certificate showing the elf…

The pressure to be a good mother starts approximately a minute after your baby is born. That’s when the nurses pop your baby onto your chest so you can nurse. What they don’t tell you is that you’ll most likely end up with bloody nipples, a baby…

Five-year-old Oren Lev in Pittsburgh is famous for his love of his “Raggy.” Raggy is a promotional towel that was given out when his family toured the Alcosan Sewage Treatment plant in 2015 (yes, this is an actual thing people do), and became real…

"I went viral for Michelle Obama, so she inspired me to write this book, which is on top of your computer," Parker Curry, co-author of Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment (Simon & Schuster), tells Romper, pointing to Romper's laptop. One of the…

After mustaches and mullets have been lopped onto tile, after bites have been taken of a homemade risotto that will be “added to the repertoire,” it is Karamo Brown’s job as cultural expert on Netflix’s Queer Eye to guide each episode’s “hero” to an…

Carson Ellis appreciates witches, but would like to clarify that she is not actually a witch. Just an illustrator who happens to live near the woods with a cat, sheep, pair of goats, pair of llamas, coop of chickens, some children, a musician…

As Madonna once reported, we are living in a Material World, but now, it is evident, we are also living in a “collab” world, which is a Material World with an x in the middle. Collabs are everywhere, from Williams Sonoma x Martha Stewart to…

These days, women can finally have it all. We can work full-time while raising our kids (thanks, school!). Well, until 3 p.m. Then, we have a bit of an issue: The standard school day across the nation ends at 3 p.m., while the workday finishes at 5…

Our resident advice-giver-outer Jenny True provides shouty, full-hearted answers to your niggling questions about pregnancy and parenthood in her column Dear Jenny. Warning: This is not a baby-and-me singalong, this is about yelling into the cosmos…

What have you done lately, other than make and gestate a baby, and win over millions of fans? This is the question going through actor Danielle Brooks’ mind as she prepares to deliver her first child in late 2019. She is ready for a change. “You get…

Welcome to Everything Is Embarrassing with Sam and Haely. Consider this our little corner to share our most awkward, questionable parenting moments so you’re able to feel better about your own life. If you want advice, we aren’t it — we’re just two…

When I stayed home for six weeks with my infant daughter, I marveled at how an 11-pound creature who didn’t yet understand she had arms could leave me so thoroughly bemused and bewildered. All parents could certainly benefit from access to more…

When everything in someone's wardrobe is turned out into a pile, it takes on the shape of a monster: a presence in the home that impacts relationships, mood, self. Marie Kondo's life-changing magic has been the ability to help people tidy away the…

Raising a child supposedly costs you a quarter of a million dollars, but it can honestly be more daunting to face the idea of spending $80 on bottle nipples in a single month. Expense Report gives us a look into the spending, scrimping, and wishing…

Our resident advice-giver-outer Jenny True provides shouty, full-hearted answers to your niggling questions about pregnancy and parenthood in her column Dear Jenny. Warning: This is not a baby-and-me singalong, this is about yelling into the cosmos…

Eight steps to making it from Thanksgiving to the New Year without face-planting. This is not an article about alcoholism. It's not about binge drinking. It's not about the fact that every year, a study comes out saying drinking is good for you or…