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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · 51m

I hate ultraprocessed foods as much as the next health reporter, but it's basically impossible to avoid them if you have kids www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...

Avoiding Ultra-Processed Foods Is Completely Unrealistic

Especially if you have kids

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · 14h

What is a toddler if not a machine for turning Uncrustables into chaos

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · 6d

Me: I have too much going on
Also me: Should I go to law school or perhaps have another baby?

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · 12d

You can’t make it to your 40s as a woman without at least one:
- thyroid issues
- yoga teacher certification
- Zoloft prescription

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · 14d

I don’t know why I even need a therapist since I always have my husband to say, “babe, stop worrying about it”

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21d

Many Americans lack basic knowledge about fertility. @olgakhazan.bsky.social spoke with doctors and other experts about the information they think should be included in sex ed for middle and high schoolers:

What Women Wish They’d Known Before Trying to Get Pregnant

Many Americans lack basic fertility knowledge. More robust sex ed could help.

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · 22d

Why is hair like
Too short
Too short
Too short
Sister wife

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · 22d

I’ll be at the Brooklyn book festival tomorrow at 1! Come through! brooklynbookfestival.org/event/the-br....

The Brain, the Mind, the Mystery - Brooklyn Book Festival

What does it look like to expand the mind, and how do we do it? What stories do our brains tell us to survive? In this panel, three nonfiction authors contemplate the mysteries of the brain in narrati...

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · 26d

I’ll be at the Brooklyn book festival on Sunday! Come through! brooklynbookfestival.org/event/settin...

Setting Community Tables - Brooklyn Book Festival

New York is a city defined and shaped by its restaurants, which serve as spaces for community just as much as they do for cuisine. Chef Scarr Pimentel (The Scarr’s Pizza Cookbook), Irene Yoo (Soju Par...

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · 29d

As a person who swears all the time (and is trying to cut back), I found this persuasive www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

Opinion | Why Does Everybody Swear All The Time Now?

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · 29d

You probably shouldn’t uh-uh in your car *while* you drive it real far

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · Sep 3

My kid doesn't care at all about external validation. It's all I care about. New on my newsletter: olgakhazan.substack.com/p/when-you-a...

When You and Your Kid Have Opposite Personalities

My kid doesn't care about external validation. It's all I care about.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Sep 1

When @olgakhazan.bsky.social introduced her favorite movie to a friend, she felt unreasonably nervous: “I was worried that she would dislike it so much that she would kind of dislike me too, through osmosis.” Jitters such as hers, it turns out, are common.

The ‘Big Lebowski’ Friendship Test

The stress of introducing something you love to someone you care about

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Aug 22

In the 19 states that have enacted significant abortion restrictions since Dobbs, many pregnant women experience “delays, confusion, and other substandard care,” @olgakhazan.bsky.social reports:

The States Where It’s Riskier to Have a Baby

In places with significant abortion restrictions, many pregnant women experience delays, confusion, and other substandard care.

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · Aug 22

and “People are dying from being pregnant.”

Read my story, about how abortion bans hurt obstetric care, at the gift link below: www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

The States Where It’s Riskier to Have a Baby

In places with significant abortion restrictions, many pregnant women experience delays, confusion, and other substandard care.

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · Aug 22

6) I spoke with 15 ob-gyns in these states. They said things like, "There’s nothing else in medicine that we wait for people to get sicker" and "“There’s less evidence-based health care that is provided for everyone that needs it in those states"

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · Aug 22

5) In a 2023 survey from KFF, four in 10 ob-gyns in abortion-ban states said the Dobbs ruling made providing care during miscarriages or other pregnancy emergencies harder

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · Aug 22

4) At least four women in states with near-total abortion bans have died because they were denied an abortion

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · Aug 22

2) When Texas banned abortion after six weeks in 2021, rates of sepsis increased by more than 50 percent for women hospitalized with miscarriages
3) Also, blood transfusions during emergency-room visits for first-trimester miscarriages increased by 54 percent

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · Aug 22

There are some alarming statistics coming out of states that implemented abortion bans or restrictions after Dobbs.
1) mothers living in states where abortion is banned were nearly twice as likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth compared with mothers living elsewhere

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · Aug 22

I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a while: Is it safe to have a baby in an abortion-ban state?

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · Aug 19

In which I take on my second least-favorite Dale Carnegie advice (my least favorite is the thing about saying their name a lot!) olgakhazan.substack.com/p/stop-askin...

Stop Asking Questions

Next time you're trying to make conversation, try making a statement instead

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · Aug 18

Gentle Fucking Hands: A parenting memoir

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · Aug 13

I wrote about MARRIAGE AT SEA! Which I loved! www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

A ‘Hopefully Completely Unrelatable’ Story About Marriage

What—if anything—can a reader learn from a couple that survived four months floating in the ocean together?

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Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social · Aug 13

It’s the uhhh Old English edition 😅

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