Laura Donovan

I am due to deliver my second baby in October, after seeing two pink lines on my pregnancy test in mid-February, not long before the first death from COVID-19 was reported in the U.S. It is a pregnancy defined by a pandemic, and the stress that…

Jenny Odell’s best-selling book How To Do Nothing, which came out in April 2019, wasn’t marketed on its inherent appeal to moms and dads, but resonated with those of us feeling our time squeezed between our jobs, the ping of social media, and the…

The Jan. 31 release of Miss Americana, the Taylor Swift documentary streaming from Netflix, has been anticipated in part because it promises to lift the veil on Swift's political evolution, and in part because we are used to orienting ourselves to…

New moms need more support. A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (AJOG) in June found that suicide and drug-related deaths are among the top causes of death for new moms. Looking at over one million women who had…

When I entered high school, my parents offered me a cell phone — I wanted no part of it. At that time, I was already expected to check in with my parents every half hour by phone when hanging out with friends, even if I was at the park right by our…