The Longest Shortest Time

    A podcast about the surprises and absurdities of raising other humans. Created by Hillary Frank.

  • Help Bring Back The Longest Shortest Time!

  • Introducing Here Lies Me

  • Parents Sometimes Understand

  • Ina May's Guide, Completely Revised and Updated

  • Busy Philipps Works the Postpartum Hollywood System

  • We Made You A Mix Tape

  • John Hodgman On Being A Villain Without Really Trying

  • The, Like, Show. Wavy Edition

  • It’s A Real Mother, Part 5: Now What?

  • How Raina Telgemeier Got Guts

  • The Accidental Gay Parents 6

  • Sperm Series: I Ask a Friend

  • Sperm Series: I Visit a Sperm Bank

  • Sperm Series: I Download an App

  • Aack! How Cathy Became a Mom

  • When YouTube Is Your Birth Coach

  • Oh, The Places You Shouldn't Go!

  • Breaking Cycles (and Chairs!) with Kulap Vilaysack

  • When Mommy Boobs Go Viral

  • Give The Ellises a Sitcom Already

  • Artificial Wombs, Space Babies and Robot Nurses… Oh My!

  • I'm Pregnant!

  • How Will They Know I’m Black?

  • Transracial Adoption When You’re a POC

  • Lactation Muffins, Tape Measure Ponytails and Other Adventures in Adoption

  • What My Mother And I Don't Talk About

  • Vasectomies! Get Nuts! Go Nads!

  • One Mom’s Late-Term Abortion

  • The Qualities and Characteristics of 7th-Borns

  • The Political Power of Black Motherhood

  • Dani Shapiro’s Family Secret

  • Rewriting Your Adoption Story

  • Toy Stories

  • Baby Shark Attack

  • MILF

  • Lucy Knisley Redraws Her Birth Story

  • When the Family Band Isn’t Your Thing

  • Weird Parenting Wins FTW

  • Postpartum House Arrest

  • When Your Uterus Wants Out

  • Must Love Fish

  • The Polycule

  • Mom, Can I Wait in the Car?

  • Stuff We Love

  • When Moms Run for Office

  • Scared Sh!tless

  • You Up?

  • The, Like, Show: Deadass Edition

  • Wanna Peek Inside Our Inbox?

  • Child-Free… With Children

  • Kidtrepreneurs

  • Becoming a Single Dad While Trans

  • Parenting In The Animal Kingdom

  • Does Family Size Matter?

  • Welcome Home! Meet the Mongoose

  • Dear Mister Rogers

  • The 36 Questions to Ask Your Partner Before Having Kids

  • When Al Letson Met His Sons

  • How to Hear a Smile

  • Cecile Richards on Troublemaker Moms

  • Imaginary Friends & Grown-ups

  • Imaginary Friends & Kids

  • A Killer Story

  • Black Lives Matter for Middle Schoolers

  • Car Births, Call-In Style

  • The Scary, Beautiful Teenage Brain

  • Forget Childbirth

  • Let's Get Unladylike

  • Sperm Shopping by Color

  • The Sisterhood of "Donor Don"

  • I'll Be Watching You

  • His Id Speaks English

  • Choose Your Own Mom-venture

  • The Handoff

  • Awkward Adventures in Infertility

  • The Parents' Guide to Affairs with Esther Perel

  • It's a Real Mother, Part 4: Leave

  • The Accidental Gay Parents 5 (UPDATE)

  • BONUS: Pentagram's Michael Bierut on #ItsARealMother

  • It's A Real Mother, Part 3: The Cliff

  • It's A Real Mother, Part 2: Ideal Worker

  • It's A Real Mother, Part 1: Governor Mom

  • Zombies, Caillou, and Other Creepy Things

  • A Is For Afrocentric

  • W. Kamau Bell Meets The Daughter Of The Dragon

  • Bubble Boy

  • Shpitzle's Secret

  • White Guilt and Other Crazy Sh*t

  • How To Make A Fella Feel Relaxed

  • Alex and the Oracular Lamb

  • Genetic Future-Telling

  • Parent Spies

  • My Dad Was My First Oprah

  • Casey Wilson, Jessi Klein and a Dinosaur Dick-Punching a Bear

  • Win!

  • Katz In The Cradle

  • When "I Do" Makes You A Parent, Too

  • The Accidental Gay Parents 5

  • When Mom Says Oy! And Dad Says ¡Ay!

  • The Weird History of Judgy Parenting

  • Surprise!

  • Family Jam

  • Eggs Over Freezy

  • Single, Female, Seeking Baby Daddy

  • All The Feels With Rob Huebel

  • Coming of Age with Down Syndrome

  • How To Not (Accidentally) Raise A Racist

  • The Scarlet A (UPDATE)

  • Babymaking While Queer

  • The Fun and the Chaos, 2

  • The Fun and the Chaos, 1

  • Kids Ask Negin Farsad Unanswerable Questions

  • Risky Birth-ness

  • More Boobs

  • Boobs

  • The New You, It'll Do (UPDATE)

  • When You Tell

  • Uterus + Sperm + Uterus

  • Uterus + Sperm

  • Real Teens, REAL Babies

  • W. Kamau Bell Asks His Mom About Sex (UPDATE)

  • Kids' Election Questions

  • Is 100 That Exciting?

  • When Grace Lin Realized She Was Chinese

  • Casey Wilson on Mothering Without a Mother

  • Behind the Scenes at LST with Peter Clowney

  • The Parents' Guide to Doing It with Esther Perel

  • The True History of a Child Chef & His Mom

  • Raising A Transgender Child

  • Anna Sale on Becoming a Mom

  • I Ate My Placenta for My Best Friend

  • A Childless Man Makes Edible Placenta

  • When Katie Couric Became A Single Mom

  • W. Kamau Bell Asks His Mom About Sex

  • The Mortality of Motherhood

  • The Secret Life of a Deaf Superhero

  • Dispatches from Black Motherhood

  • My Best Friend's Baby

  • How to Parent Like a Clown

  • There's No Place That's Home

  • The Accidental Gay Parents, 4

  • The Accidental Gay Parents 3

  • Terry Gross on Not Having Kids

  • Lauren Lapkus Answers Kids' Unanswerable Questions

  • Behind Family Lines

  • Kicking Ass While Pregnant

  • Outnumbered By Animals

  • The Scarlet A

  • Love Yurts (UPDATE)

  • Stuff Mom Never Told You About C-Sections

  • A Childless Man Gets a C-Section

  • There's Something About Andy

  • Kids Ask Chris Gethard Unanswerable Questions

  • The Parents' Guide to Doing It 2

  • I've Got News 6

  • Momming It Solo

  • Kids Ask About Death

  • Should I Have Kids?

  • Kids Eat ... What?!

  • The Accidental Gay Parents 2

  • I've Got News 3

  • The Accidental Gay Parents

  • Mama Don't Understand

  • The Bestest Worstest Time with Roman Mars

  • Sixty-Five Women and a Baby

  • The New You … It’ll Do

  • The Emperor's New Onesie

  • When the Breadwinner Makes Dough

  • When Are You Gonna Be Normal Again?

  • Booze Emergency!

  • Real Teens, Fake Babies

  • Mom, It's Time We Had the Talk

  • Healing After Childbirth

  • The Parents' Guide to Doing It

  • Your Parenting Resolutions, 2015

  • Music Together-ish

  • Love Yurts

  • There's No Place That's Home

  • It's Like She Knows Us

  • Peeping Mom

  • How to Be a Pregnant Butch

  • Building a Better Boobie Trap

  • Owner of a Holey Heart

  • Pediatricians, They're Just Like Us

  • What Makes a Happy Family?

  • Lucy and the Bike Girl

  • Picturing Her

  • The Parents' Guide to Eating Over the Sink

  • How Cute! Is He Yours?

  • The Reluctant Father and His Wife

  • How to Brag to Your Mom Friends

  • When Mommy Means Everything

  • The Shortest Day

  • The Missing Chapter to Ina May’s Guide

  • Rewriting Your Birth Story

  • Blind Love

  • The Provider’s Guide to Quitting

  • Due Date Desert

  • The Longest Longest Time

  • The Mom Who Did Everything Wrong

  • The Numbers

  • I’ve Got News 5

  • The Mortality of Motherhood

  • I’ve Got News 4

  • I’ve Got News 3

  • I’ve Got News Too

  • What YOU Expect When You’re Expecting

  • And Behind Door Number Two …

  • Making Noise to Prevent More Noise

  • I’ve Got News

  • Nap Boot Camp

  • My Newborn, the A**hole

  • The Emperor’s New Onesie

  • Would’ve Been the Mean Mommy

  • Nurse, Get the Handcuffs

  • Endangered Sea Turtle, Yum

  • Kittens Can Do It, so Why Can’t We?

  • Don’t Make Me Be Your Miracle

  • Is Class Over Yet?

  • When the Poop Is No Longer a Gift

  • Your Singing Really Interferes With My Going-To-Sleep Process

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