Joys of Motherhood |
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One Perspective on Women's Sexual Experience
As a result of the significant number and complexity of the responses received with respect to women’s loss of interest in sex, we...
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Surviving the First Month Postpartum
Feeling exhausted by the demands of caring for your new baby? Having difficulty remembering why you wanted to become a parent in the first place? Here are some tips on surviving this wonderful yet challenging...
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Getting Back to Work
As a working member of society you enjoy income, position, respect, working with others, a feeling of community and that somehow you are contributing something to the world. With this comes a higher self-esteem...
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Depleted Mother Syndrome
Parenting can wreck your life. One morning a few months after our second child, Laurel, was born -- we'd been up much of the night (again) and were blotto with fatigue -- my wife looked at me and said...
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How to Write and Record Your Birth Story
Interested in preserving and sharing your own birthing story? Well, if you like to write, you can simply take pen to paper or sit at your computer. However, if you're daunted by the idea of putting words on paper...
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Motherhood: It Will Change Your Life
Time is running out for my friend. We are sitting at lunch when she casually mentions that she and her husband are thinking of "starting a family. What she means is that her biological clock has begun its...
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Stay at Home Moms vs. Working Moms
Why does everyone feel this constant need to compare "Stay at Home Moms" with the so-called "Working Mom?" First, I take offence to the term, ‘working mom.' All Moms work and the work...
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman
I had my first encounter with the scale a little over 36 years ago. I weighed in at a positively svelte 5 lbs. 13 oz.-the one and only time in my life that I would ever be classified as underweight! Over...
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Price of Motherhood
The good mother, the wise mother . . . is more important to the community than even the ablest man; her career is more worthy of honor and is more useful to the community than the career of any man, no...
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Pamper Yourself
You sigh as you prop your feet up on the coffee table. The kids have had a great time at the park and you even managed to chat with some other moms while you were there. A quick stop at the grocery store to...
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Hey Mom, what did YOU do today
My husband came home today and saw me sitting on the couch, toddler on one knee, and baby nursing on the opposite breast. I was trying to turn the pages of a book with the hand not attached to the infant, while...
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Super Mom
Diana Prince, Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker… What do all these names have in common? They are the alter egos for Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man. Super heroes are not super all...
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352 Tips for Mothers
Cut off the crusts. Make real cocoa. Hang their drawings on the fridge. Say the clay ashtray is what you always wanted. Sing silly songs. Make goofy faces. Let them take off the training wheels. Remind the Tooth...
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Motherhood and Sexual Desire
As dedicated and caring mothers our questions of concern most often revolve around our kids. Moms ask me, "When should I tell my child about reproduction?" "What should I say?" "What...
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Motherhood with an Autistic Child
Relax. He is the same little boy you loved yesterday. I smiled trying to hold back the tears. "No he isn't. Yesterday I dreamed he would be an astronaut. Today I am hoping he will learn to talk. He is...
