Melanie Notkin

If you're like me, and always aspired and expected to be a mother, Mother's Day, and the days that precede it, can be a heavy time. With continuous Mother's Day promotions and news stories featuring moms of all ages, shapes and sizes ("It's the hardest job in the world!"), the...

OK ladies, take a breath. You're not the only ones hoping to have a baby or who have given birth to a second or even third child after your fortieth birthday. In fact, you're part of a growing trend of women who do.

According to a new study published by...

Christina and Isabella Huffington, ages 22 and 20 respectively, are two very fortunate young women. Not only is their mother, Arianna, one of the most well-respected and most successful women in media, but Agapi Stassinopoulos, an inspiring author and speaker, is their aunt.

But if you were to...

We all know that going through infertility treatments can be incredibly challenging for couples. But single women who yearn to be mothers go through their own heartache. They are waiting for their future life partner to come into their lives before they can even begin to try to conceive. While...

When a woman is over age 30, single and childless, people want to know why. Not just her doting parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. Not just the college roommate whose bridal and baby showers she threw ten or fifteen years earlier. Not just her married mom friends chiding her to...

The grief hit me in my mid-thirties without warning.

By all appearances, my life was fantastic, or pretty close. I had a great job in New York City, good friends, some good dates. But then there were times, lonely days and nights, when I would cry. I would sob....

There are a series of milestones Western society views as steps a female takes toward full-fledged womanhood. The first stage starts with the beginning of menstruation around age 12 ½, then goes on to the wearing of a bra, (the next items are in no particular order) then makeup, a...

Donny Deutsch, ad man-turned cable TV show host-turned morning show expert on just about anything, looked straight into the camera. Normally, he'd be looking at Savannah Guthrie, the Today Show moderator of the curiously popular (and yet curiously entertaining) "Today's Professionals" segment to share his opinions. But on a Monday...

It was earlier this year when I met Elizabeth at Rm. Fifty5 in the Dream Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. We were there to toast Melissa, a single 40-year-old woman finishing her final treatments for breast cancer. There was so much promise in the air.

Elizabeth, a stylish and attractive woman...

With the recent New York Magazine cover story making hoopla out of the growing age of first time moms, a recent study out of the department of human genetics at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, shows that men get too old to have kids...

I sat in the theater biting my tongue. In the newly released film, "I Don't Know How She Does It" about the challenges of a working mother, Sarah Jessica Parker's character Kate Reddy describes her female, child-phobic junior associate, Momo, as a "robot" and went on (and on) throughout the...

I admit I'm guilty of looking in the mirror and feeling grateful that there is not a wrinkle on my 42 year old filler-free face. I am even more thankful for a cluster of monthly zits, a possible sign that some of my more youthful hormones are still functioning. In...

Dinner started off simple enough, three friends in their mid-thirties catching up on each other's lives. One was a married mom of two kids. One was a newly married woman, pregnant with her first. And one was a single woman about to lose another unfertilized egg hours later. I was...

"I know a lot of women like you," said my date, admitting he was trying to figure out why a 'great girl' like me was still single. "They are also single, no kids. But you know, they're career women like you are." Then, in a way to make himself sound...

Nearly 46 percent of American women through age 44 are childless. That's up from 35 percent in 1976.

All reasons this generation of women are not bearing children at the same rate their mothers did are valid. Some are young women and just not at a point in...

College-educated women, as much as you may want children, you're not having them when the Census Bureau thinks you should, and it's your fault.

You went to college. You got an education. You went to work so that you could support yourself. And because of that, they're going to point...

Not too long ago, Mom was the norm. She played the role so elegantly, first in pearls opening the door to greet the Beav, then with a shag do, blissfully managing her combined family, three from his, three from hers. Soon, she was newly single, managing life "One Day at...