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Fortesa Latifi

journalist writing about family vloggers and mom influencers while also trying to figure out new motherhood

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are good mothers allowed to sleep (train)?

inside the most toxic debate in modern parenting

mom influencers know predators are looking at their content

and I know because they told me

it's not postpartum rage, it's postpartum realization

on motherhood, rage, and ~realizing stuff~

the pressure to “soak in” the “newborn bubble”

Every mom of a newborn has heard it: ~ Soak it in, Mama!

night in my life with a 5 week old

7:20 P.M.

the loneliness of American motherhood & the draw of mom influencers

This excerpt is adapted from my debut book Like, Follow, Subscribe: Influencer Kids and the Cost of a Childhood Online.

8 things I forgot about you, postpartum

Somehow, I’m 4 weeks postpartum with my second child which makes me feel like A Real Mom.

this is how postpartum is different the second time around

Hello from my world, where I’m nearly three weeks postpartum.

day in my life 10 days postpartum

8:15 A.M.

a day in my life at 36.5 weeks pregnant as a [very] miserable pregnant person

5:10 A.M.