How I Worked Up the Nerve to Have a Second Kid After a Traumatic Childbirth

Rachel Saslow is a former newspaper reporter and current stay-at-home mom who crams all of her writerly ambitions into naptime. She lives outside of Washington, D.C., with her husband, their two young daughters and a grumpy cockapoo. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, hiking, celebrity gossip and going to dance classes and then undoing all of her efforts with cookies and wine. Her health and parenting writing appears in The Washington Post.