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Millennial Moms are having a midlife crisis. Why they're spiraling

Today, millennial parents turn to lactation consultants, newborn tracking apps, gadgets, expert influencers and an endless feed of parents on social media content to compare themselves to. If they needed extra support, they might borrow a well-worn copy of "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care," the seminal baby-rearing tome by Dr.

Millennial Moms are having a midlife crisis. Why they're spiraling

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If they needed extra support, they might borrow a well-worn copy of "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care," the seminal baby-rearing tome by Dr.

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Today, millennial parents turn to lactation consultants, newborn tracking apps, gadgets, expert influencers and an endless feed of parents on social media content to compare themselves to.

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If they needed extra support, they might borrow a well-worn copy of "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care," the seminal baby-rearing tome by Dr. Today, millennial parents turn to lactation consultants, newborn tracking apps, gadgets, expert influencers and an endless feed of parents on social media content to compare themselves to. "It's the most fundamentally inconvenient, slow, inevitable friction that you can go through as a human," she admits willingly.

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  • After publicly debating about whether she wanted to become a mother in her "Childless Millennial" podcast series, Kennedy welcomed a son three years ago.

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Chicago-based podcaster Kate Kennedy has literally written the book on her generation, fittingly titled " One in a Millennial." "We have really high expectations for what being a good mother means that maybe are part of the residual effects of millennial optimization culture," she tells TODAY.com. Spock to his millennial feelings-forward counterpart, Dr.

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