Offbeat Mama | Features

This is Offbeat Mama’s archive of Features posts.

Elka and her husband recently made it through their first backpacking trip with baby Uli, and she's compiled a list of tips and tricks for fellow backpacking and parenting enthusiasts.

Katie is exploring what motherhood may mean to her down the road, and went straight to the source — her own mother — for a quick question and answer session!

Perhaps one too many? Photo by Ashley. I was at a party. I was pregnant. Someone handed me a half glass of wine, and there it was — the crack of the whip glare. At first I...

James is an ex-military, current nursing school student DILF. He is also a fan of pink and faeries, which amps up his DILF factor.

Everyone yells at kid’s baseball games, and at least 50% of them are completely bat shit crazy, knuckle-dragging fathers who have some warped sense of displaced childhood glory. How did I become one of them?!

One morning I woke up with a huge, hard lump on my right breast. I didn’t know where it came from and totally freaked out – Did I have a tumor!? I wrote my mama friends, did some reading and figured out it was had to be a clogged duct.

Charlotte told friends she was pregnant and then filmed their responses. The result? Instant pregnancy announcement genius!

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep is a network of volunteer photographers who are on call to serve bereaved families and honor their children through infant remembrance photography. Angela is one such photographer.