[3] Journalist Emily Bazelon, who writes about women, family, and legal issues, described the magazine as "my own barometer of granola parenting gone too far".

[4] In 2006, Mothering sponsored a contest that solicited artwork to create an international symbol for breastfeeding.

[5][6] In 2001, Mothering featured a cover story about AIDS denialist and HIV+ mother, Christine Maggiore, who was pregnant with her daughter at the time and refused to take any anti-HIV drugs to protect her unborn daughter from becoming infected with HIV.

By 2011, mothering.com had 1.5 million unique visitors each month and was the largest online forum for parents.

[8] In July 2011, O'Mara sold mothering.com, to Huddler (Collacomm, Inc) to pay print magazine debts that had accumulated during the Great Recession.