Weekend Reading: Links We Like

What happens when you announce to the world you don’t plan to have kids, but end up having one? This writer tells her story. (The Cut)

Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS Shoes and a new dad, shares what he learned after taking three months off to help with his newborn son—and lobbies hard for paid family leave. (Glamour)

It’s almost painful how stock photography has no idea how to depict pregnancy. (Mommyish)

Celeb trainer Jackie Warner addresses “fit shaming”—including the kind thrown at in-shape new moms—and basically tells the bullies where they can go. (Huffington Post)

This piece on the so-called Glam SAHMs (glamorous stay-at-home-moms) of New York’s Upper East Side really got people talking. (New York Times)

Insurance companies, interested in lowering costs, are looking into monitoring pregnancies using mobile apps so they know exactly what they’re dealing with. (MedCity News)

A spot-on look at pregnancy via a smartly produced comic by cartoonist Rebecca Roher. (Huffington Post)

New research shows that pregnancy might change a woman’s brain for the rest of her life. (Daily Mail)

A reminder that bumps are like fingerprints: no two are the same. (Huffington Post)