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about your mom your mom subscribe sign in home notes archive about your mom i write a bit about motherhood and identity as a mom style as a mom etc in my other newsletter earl earl but i ve always avoided too many kid or parent specific things because i know it s alienating and can be triggering the whole thing is so fraught i just tried to not really go there if i could avoid it but here i am going there when i got pregnant with my first kid i just poof got pregnant i was very lucky but in classic laurel fashion i didn t plan didn t think it through didn t prepare i just did and here too my two best friends and i were chatting about this idea this morning and about 17 minutes later i was setting up a new substack while waiting at red lights taking my kids to a music class they ve been on spring break for a week and a half already so i m very much in a your mom joke frame of mind nothing is sacred nothing is tmi nothing s fancy or nice it s hanging on by a thread but also doing it and having fun while somehow scraping by on the bare minimum sleep and sanity i m not a parenting expert i ve actually never successfully finished a parenting book and i m not a doctor or shrink though i ve been to see both but i find myself with so many things to say about being a mom becoming a mom remembering who i was before i was a mom and i m happy to have somewhere to put them so thank you for joining me on this very spur of the moment journey i m very excited about it and it can t all come from me right so my plan is to include essays and things from other people birth stories horror stories poop stories you know what it s like anyway thank you for reading thank you for making me feel less insane thank you for having us sorry we destroyed your playroom love your mom friend laurel subscribe who is laurel i m a creative consultant stylist and writer with two little kids living in la i came up through the magazine world in new york and am now largely on my own i write another letter earl earl all about personal style and identity subscribe to your mom mom things subscribe people 2026 laurel pantin privacy terms collection notice start your substack get the app substack is the home for great culture this site requires javascript to run correctly please turn on javascript or unblock scripts