Danielle Braff

Our favorite newborn sleep doc isn’t simply shushing and soothing our babies to sleep anymore. He may be saving their lives. Harvey Karp, co-founder and CEO of Happiest Baby, worked with his company and an industrial designer from MIT for six years…

After trying to conceive through nine cycles of IVF, unsuccessfully, Alexis Cirel’s doctor suggested she and her husband take a different route: a gestational surrogate. “It was a hard decision and it took months of introspection,” says Cirel, an…

Alice Gottlieb recalls her doctor screaming at her so loudly that the entire office could hear. The topic was her weight. “He yelled at me because I gained 5 pounds,” Gottlieb says, thinking back to the time she ate Chinese food before her OB-GYN…

Sometimes the toddler who won’t put on their shoes isn’t in the throes of a tantrum — rather, their limp body might have fallen victim to the tantrum’s shadow brother: the giggle fit, rendering them incapable of functioning, even if they wanted 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…

If you’re a parent of anyone older than the age of 1, then you’re probably familiar with this scenario: your child, in a last-ditch attempt to resist you during a tantrum, relaxes all the muscles in his body and slumps to the floor. It’s funny at…

It was in the hospital room just after Crystal Henry delivered her first child that her life began to resemble a Margaret Atwood book. Her doctor winked at her husband and then stitched her, adding an extra stitch so she’d be nice and tight for him.…

Maintaining a social media feed can be a full-time job for influencers, according to a recent Forbes article. Between determining content, scouting a location, filming, editing, partnering with brands and creating captions, some influencers are at…

Baseballer Anthony Rizzo is on track for his best year. What you might not consider, seeing him at the plate ready to slug one over the fences, is the mental fitness work he does to prepare. “Bad performance starts with a bad thought,” says Joe…

My daughter has been in a rut for years. One of her issues: the family on the reality show Kate Plus Eight (you know, the one that used to be Jon & Kate Plus Eight) looks like it’s way more fun than her life. The reason, she says, is because they…

Five months after she became a mom and began to experience sleep deprivation, Monique Compton’s hallucinations began. Her cuddly little bundle of joy never slept more than two hours at a time, and when he woke, it would often take hours to get him…