What is it like to spend nine-plus months carrying someone else’s baby? How can you not get attached to the baby growing inside you? How can you talk yourself through morning sickness, swollen ankles and back pain when you don’t get the ultimate payoff of holding your own precious baby when all is said and done?
I was very fortunate to speak [...]
Tags: Adoption, IVF, miscarriage, Mother, Pregnancy, surrogacy, surrogate
Posted in: Pregnancy
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For many mothers, Mother’s Day is a day to be endured and survived, not celebrated. I learned this on Mother’s Day 2006. Our first born son had been stillborn and we’d buried him less than a month before. I remember going to church that day and noticing that a baby baptism ceremony had been planned [...]
Tags: military, miscarriage, Mother, mother's day, single mom, stillbirth
Posted in: Holidays
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A study published in the October issue of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry by Yale School of Medicine researchers indicates that mothers who deliver their baby vaginally are more strongly bonded to their newborn than a mother who deliver via cesarean section.
The researchers performed brain scans on the mothers while they listened to their [...]
Tags: Baby, bond, cesarean, Mother, vaginal
Posted in: Health, News
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Many of us live miles away from our extended families. My mother and siblings live thousands of miles away in another continent. This is the price we have to pay for being expats.
So it is with a heavy heart that I embarked on this journey across the world today – to a mother who is [...]
Tags: children, daughter, family, Mother, Travel
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It seems that what happens on the first year of a baby’s life is very influential on his/her behavior as he/she grows up. And mommy plays a very important role in all of this. According to a study by psychologists at the University of Chicago, mom’s parenting style and baby’s temperament can predict how it [...]
Tags: behaviour, first year, Mother, parenting skills
Posted in: Baby, Parenting
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