In The Fourth Trimester, we ask parents: What meal nourished you after welcoming your baby? This month it’s oxtail guisado from novelist Cleyvis Natera. For an entire week, I’d been lying as still as ...

I have tried to be a good mother to my two children. But if anyone had suggested to me, in the long-ago overwhelming days when they were tiny, that I make their baby food, I would have given that ...