Twelve weeks is an eternity when it comes to maternity leave time, at least in this country. After 12 weeks, you’ve seen your babe through almost three months, and seen yourself through your fourth trimester. (It’s a term, look it up!) You’re no longer quite as wobbly or as gobsmacked as you were in the […]

Rachel Reiff Ellis takes her three to a museum, all by herself and she’s so proud!

Humor columnist Rachel Reiff Ellis and her husband are playing pass the baby!

Humor writer Rachel Reiff Ellis is still in love with everyone in her house. New baby and all.

With a 6-week-old in the house, this means we are experiencing some of the most amazing and most miserable moments of our lives simultaneously.

I have been a parent for about five-and-a-half years now, which if you crunch the numbers, comes out to be about only 5.8 percent of my life. And as a gumshoe-level parent, I sometimes cling to made-up truths about child-rearing in order to feel like I have the stamina to make it through a particularly […]