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Millennial Moms are having a midlife crisis. Why they're spiraling

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When the baby boomer generation had kids, they sought help from their family and their doctor. If they needed extra support, they might borrow a well-worn copy of “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care,” the seminal baby-rearing tome by Dr. Benjamin Spock. Today, millennial parents turn to lactation consultants, newborn tracking apps, gadgets, expert influencers and an endless feed of parents on social media content to compare themselves to. It’s exhausting. Chicago-based podcaster Kate Kennedy has literally written the book on her generation, fittingly titled “ One in a Millennial .” “We have really high expectations for what being a good mother means that maybe are part of the residual effects of millennial optimization culture,” she tells TODAY.com. But there’s no hack to raising a child. “It’s the most fundamentally inconvenient, slow, inevitable friction that you can go through as a human,” she admits willingly. After publicly debating about whether she wanted to become a m

First report: The Making of the Millennial Working Class — thenation.com, 7d