Topic days are days on MiM devoted to a single topic, featuring posts from many of our regular contributors as well as guest submissions. To...

I always remember Topic Day at 11pm on...Topic Day, so here I am, dead last. Wow, I could write thousands of pages on this one, but since...

I recently let me my nanny of four years go, just after having my third kid - yes, I know it sounds crazy but I was having an identity crisi...

September 2001 One year and three months into a two-year residency, I give birth to my daughter. I am eligible for one year of maternity l...

Day care, preschool, kindergarten, after hours (and before hours, which we have not yet needed)... it is almost too overwhelming to reflect ...

It is amazing to see the variety of available child-care options that are available to working parents. For our family, we carefully consid...

The take home message from the following, for those who don't have time to read the whole post: Don't be afraid to change childcar...

She was an OB-GYN just beginning her new attending position in private practice as child #3 turned 6 months old. She left her beautiful baby...

I was recently at a birthday party for one of my husband's colleages (who is a doctor). It was one of those events where I didn't kn...

The Day Care topic day is scaring me a little. Okay scaring me a lot. I am mother to a 9 month old. Since birth- well actually earlier- e...

Once upon a time, before maternity leave was available, I had to return to my university clinic job 3 weeks after birth of first child. A h...

We had my daughter midway during a two-year research hiatus from my residency. Our daughter is now five and just started kindergarten. Bec...

When Eldest was born, I was still a resident. Our first attempt at day care was, in short, a disaster. Despairing at our choices in tradit...

I'm not one for shooting off numbers, but man, this is a story I can't help but tell: We recently moved and had to give up our pre...

I am an internal medicine intern ( 9 months of q4 to q5). We live across the street from our daycare. They open at 7 and close at 6 and ...

We had a variety of arrangements as the kids grew up, some better, some not. When they were tiny we had a wonderful woman who came to the h...