A ribbon cutting Monday at the SEK Multi-County Health Department in Iola served to announce the office is now a breast milk drop-off location.  The Oklahoma Mothers Milk Bank, which manages a network across Oklahoma,…

AUBURN, Wash. (AP) — After a series of lower-paying jobs, Nicole Slemp finally landed one she loved. She was a secretary for Washington’s child services department, a job that came with her own cubicle, and…

TOPEKA — The state’s only women’s prison could have a nursery center for mothers who give birth while incarcerated, if a proposed plan catches on. The pilot plan would establish a correctional center nursery on…

Hi, Carolyn: Your column concerning a new mother feeling pulled in many directions to celebrate Mother’s Day really got me thinking. I have felt the Mother’s Day guilt of wanting to make my mother and…

In the wake of Tuesday’s decision by Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration to shutter all K-12 schools in Kansas in response to the COVID-19 crisis, parents are doing their best to cope and start figuring out…

Dear Carolyn: This will be my first Mother’s Day as a mom, and I’m already not enjoying it due to the pressure I feel to balance time with my husband and baby, time with my…