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Brittany Krystantos

Headshot of Brittany Krystantos, a Momé founder and editor, with long blonde hair and a black top, smiling on a white sofa.

Brittany Krystantos has spent much of her life overcoming challenges related to mental health, becoming an advocate at a young age. Through those experiences, she discovered a passion for writing — not only as a way to share her own story, but also to help others tell theirs. Throughout her career, she has interviewed a wide range of notable figures, using storytelling to connect, inspire, and amplify diverse voices. With Momé, Brittany is excited to shine a light on the extraordinary stories of mothers, celebrating their journeys, resilience, and impact. When she's not writing, she's likely being judged by her dog, Charlie, or fueled by an excessive amount of matcha lattes.

Articles

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Chef Imani Jackson in a red chef's coat holds two crossed chef's knives, looking down, against a deep red backdrop.
Features · Nourish

Chef Imani Jackson Cooks From Two Cultures and One Big Heart

The Blewish chef, caterer, and founder on using food as a language for identity, community, and healing — and her real advice for the mother who thinks dinner has to be complicated.

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Identity

The Mental Health Decline No One Is Talking About: Moms Are Getting Sicker, and It's Not Just Postpartum

A landmark 2025 JAMA study of nearly 200,000 mothers found the share reporting excellent mental health fell from 38% to 26% in seven years. This is not postpartum — it is a systemic, sustained decline.

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Identity

Rage, Grief, and Unexpected Joy: The Full Emotional Range of Becoming a Mother

The greeting-card version of motherhood leaves out the rage, the grief, the loneliness, and the ambivalence. The full emotional range no one warned you about — and why holding all of it is the work.

A smiling toddler in a white shirt and suspenders kisses his pregnant mother's belly, her hand resting gently on the bump.
What Matters

The Maternal Health Crisis Is a Policy Crisis: What the US Can Learn From Countries That Got It Right

One of the highest maternal mortality rates in the developed world, no federal paid leave, the most expensive childcare in the OECD. Not a medical mystery — a policy outcome, with known solutions.

A woman with long braids and glasses works on a laptop beside a calculator at a sunlit windowsill desk surrounded by houseplants.
Business & Career

The Side Hustle That Became Everything: How to Know When to Go All In

Knowing when to leave employment and commit fully to your business trips up more founders than anything that comes after it. The signals that tell you the business is ready — and the runway that makes the leap survivable.

Two Black women professionals sit together on green sofas in a bright modern office, looking at a laptop mid-conversation.
Business & Career

The Women Leading the C-Suite Charge — and What They Did Differently

C-suite promotion growth for women was just 1% in 2025 — and yet a determined cohort of mothers broke through anyway. The strategies, the sponsors, and the specific choices that made the difference.

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What Matters

The Real Cost of Having a Baby in America in 2026

From prenatal care to the first year of childcare, the honest line-by-line accounting of what families are actually spending — and what it reveals about a country that says it values motherhood.

A woman with curly hair and glasses sits on the floor against a sofa, working on a laptop balanced on her lap in a sunlit living room.
Business & Career

Remote Work Was the Great Equalizer for Moms. Now It's Being Taken Away.

Flexible work drove a historic surge in employed mothers — from 34% in 1975 to 66% in 2023. The return-to-office wave is reversing it. What the research shows, and what comes next.

A woman in glasses and a striped top sits at a desk with a laptop, holding a phone in one hand and a payment card in the other.
What Matters

How to Access Every Financial Benefit Available to New Mothers in 2026

The money is sometimes there — it's just buried in acronyms and government websites. A plain-English guide to every federal and state benefit you may be entitled to, with the links to apply.

A blonde woman in a black hoodie sits alone on a weathered wooden bench, head bowed, facing a grey, overcast sea.
What Matters

The Loneliness Epidemic Nobody Is Talking About: Why New Mothers Are the Most Isolated Generation in History

Seven in ten mothers say motherhood is lonelier than they imagined; one in five feels it every day. Why new motherhood is structurally isolating, and what actually helps.

A masked clinician in blue scrubs cradles a crying newborn moments after birth in a hospital delivery room.
What Matters

What the Medicaid Cuts in H.R. 1 Mean for Mothers Who Give Birth

Medicaid covers 41% of US births — over 60% in some states. What the H.R. 1 cuts mean for prenatal care, deliveries, and postpartum coverage, and which mothers bear the risk.

A smiling mother in a white shirt wraps her arms around her laughing young daughter on a couch by a bright window.
Identity

Matrescence: The Word That Finally Names What You're Going Through

There's a word for the identity shift of becoming a mother — one psychologists have used for fifty years and most mothers have never heard. What it means, and why naming it changes everything.

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What Matters

The CDC Stopped Tracking Maternal Deaths. That Should Terrify All of Us.

In 2025 the CDC paused PRAMS, the system that tracked maternal mortality for 38 years. What was paused, what's been erased, and what the measurement gap means for every mother giving birth in America.

A toddler in a striped shirt sits in a red high chair holding a purple toy camera up to their face, in a colourful playroom.
What Matters

Infant Care in California Costs More Than College Tuition. Where Did It Go So Wrong?

At nearly $20,000 a year, infant care now costs more than in-state college tuition in California and New York. The structural failures behind the crisis, and what other countries do differently.

A pregnant woman in a mustard sweater and her partner share a tender moment in their marble kitchen, his hand resting on her belly, with WeNatal jars on the counter.
Features · Pregnancy & Postpartum

From Heartbreak to a Fertility Revolution: WeNatal Founders Ronit Menashe & Vida Delrahim

Two pregnancy losses one week apart became WeNatal — the brand that brought men back into the fertility conversation and has supported over 30,000 families.

A smiling pregnant woman in a beige top reclines against jewel-toned pillows on a bed, one hand resting on her belly.
Wellness

The Mental Prep for Motherhood Nobody Talks About

We obsess over the nursery and the birth plan. Almost no one prepares for the psychological transformation — and it is the part that changes you most.

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Wellness

Mindfulness for Kids at Every Age (No Incense Required)

A practical, screen-free guide to mindfulness for children — from sensory narration with newborns to the one-breath rule with teens. What the research shows, and exactly what to do.

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Parenting

The Phrases That Raise Emotionally Intelligent Kids

What to say when they're angry, sad, anxious, or overwhelmed — the phrases that build emotional intelligence, and the well-meaning ones that quietly do the opposite.

An overhead spread of anti-inflammatory whole foods — wild salmon, blueberries, leafy greens, nuts, seeds, avocado, turmeric, ginger, and olive oil.
Nourish

15 Anti-Inflammatory Postpartum Foods That Actually Heal

A simple, anti-inflammatory guide to postpartum recovery foods — what to eat to heal, regulate, and feel a little more like yourself. No project, no cleanse, no labels to read.

Andria Gordon, founder of Have Baby Must Sleep.
Parenting

Andria Gordon on Sleep Training, Wake Windows & Why You Can't Ruin a Newborn's Sleep

The founder of Have Baby Must Sleep on the sleepless season that nearly broke her, the diagnosis that reshaped her family, and why you can't ruin a newborn's sleep.

Rachel Kornblum, the children's musician known as Rockin' Rach, smiling with her young daughter.
Parenting

From "You Are My Sunshine" to Self-Discovery: Rachel Kornblum's Return to Music and Identity

The children's musician known as Rockin' Rach on the loneliness of the first trimester, postpartum rage, the feeding journey, and how one lullaby led her back to herself.

A mother with windblown blonde hair holds her young child close against her shoulder under a wide, soft blue sky.
Wellness

Nervous System Regulation for Moms Who Cannot Meditate

The wellness industry says sit still for twenty minutes. Motherhood doesn't allow it — the regulation tools that actually work in thirty seconds, with a baby on your hip.

A grid of wholesome family dishes on a dark wood table — a broccoli grain bowl, oat energy balls, green soup, yogurt with granola, avocado toast, and a chia-banana pudding.
Nourish

Cook Once, Feed Everyone: 8 Family Meals for Baby and the Whole Family

No more separate purees, no more cold dinners. The framework, eight reliable recipes, and the pantry list that make one-meal cooking actually work.

A mother in cream linen sits against a soft plaster wall, holding her young daughter close beside an olive branch in a terracotta pot.
Wellness

The Mental Load Is Real. Naming It Is Step One.

The invisible work of anticipating, planning, and remembering is one of the most exhausting and least acknowledged forces in modern motherhood — and how to begin to share it.

A mother and her young daughter sitting cross-legged on the kitchen floor, both meditating with eyes closed, in soft morning light.
Wellness

5-Minute Meditations for Moms — 6 Resets That Actually Work

A realistic guide to meditation for mothers — small daily resets that fit between feeds, school runs, and the quiet hours when nothing is technically wrong but everything still feels loud.

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A note from us, stories worth reading, things worth knowing, and the occasional find we can't stop thinking about. Not a roundup. Not a pitch. A letter — from mothers who get it, to mothers who need it.