By Alexa Rodriguez
Feb 5, 2021
From work friends to childhood friends, your circle is likely filled with people who you met in different phases of life. But in the parenting stage of life, finding someone who can relate to what you re going through is crucial that s why mom friends are important to have. Motherhood is a huge life transition. As with other major life transitions, it is important to find support, licensed clinical social worker and certified perinatal mental health clinician Jamie Kreiter tells Romper.
Friendships come in all shapes and sizes, but mom friends are particularly special. They re the ones you lean on when you ve been up all night with a newborn and have no idea how you ll get through the day. Then later, they re who you call when you re fighting yet another battle with your preteen. In short, they re priceless.
Why 2020 Was a Breakthrough Year for Talking About Miscarriage Alyssa Sybertz
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Sharing miscarriage publicly
Chrissy Teigen is a high-profile and active user of social media. So when she and her husband John Legend lost their third child to miscarriage in September, it s not surprising that she shared the devastating news with her Instagram followers. We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we ve never felt before. We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn t enough, Teigen wrote of her loss at 20 weeks of pregnancy. To our Jack I m so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many complications, that we couldn t give you the home you needed to survive. We will always love you.