Category: Concerns and Expectations
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Choices, Choices
Parents-to-be face many important decisions. Breast-feed or bottle feed? Cloth diapers or disposable? To go back to work after the baby is born, or not? To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? For me, many…
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Postpartum Depression
After pregnancy, some women start to feel like they’re just not ‘right’. Hormonal changes, healing, and taking care of a newborn while still running a household can all attribute to this feeling. In cases,…
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Anticipation… Anticipa-yay-tion
Remember that weekend sans children that we got dooped out of a couple of weeks ago. Well, this weekend, we will get our due. The disappointment stung, yes, when we had it swiped right…
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Boys Will Be Boys….
I have gotten used to people (usually those without kids or those with girls only) looking at my son with great wonder – his preference to jump and run everywhere rather than to walk,…
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Year of the Soccer Mom
This weekend, I crossed a threshold that I wasn’t sure I would ever be crossing. I am now a partaker in the weekend, rush-hour life of youth sports. My son had his first soccer…
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Risk of Depression Relapse High During Pregnancy
Here’s an interesting report I heard on NPR today: Women with a history of major depression who stop taking their medication during pregnancy have a high likelihood of relapse. A new study published in…
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Obesity Before Pregnancy Linked To Childhood Weight Problems – Pregnancy And Baby
Results of the study, which included more than 3,000 children, suggest that a child is far more likely to be overweight at a very young age — at 2 or 3 years old —…