PARENTING

New Moms 5 Minute Guide to Spicing Up the Relationship With Your Husband

New Moms 5 Minute Guide to Spicing Up the Relationship With Your Husband   By Salena Kulkarni   There isn’t a mom out there that can’t relate to loss of connection they have experienced with their husband once a baby is born. Not only does the focus moves from the couple to the baby, but …

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New Moms – Five Powerful Tips to Getting Back in Shape After Your Baby Arrives

New Moms – Five Powerful Tips to Getting Back in Shape After Your Baby Arrives   By Salena Kulkarni   Pregnancy and child birth puts an enormous strain on a woman’s body. Healing is of the utmost importance naturally, but for many getting back the body they once had is also important. Luckily, there are …

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How Breastfeeding Benefits Mothers

How Breastfeeding Benefits Mothers By Shen-Li Lee       With numerous guidelines being written on the importance and benefits of breastfeeding, more and more mothers are becoming aware of how beneficial it is to nurse their babies. However, it seems that the benefits of breastfeeding to a mother isn’t as well publicised, for many …

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Moments Only Working Moms Know!

Moms are some awesome creatures. Honestly, whether you’re a working mom or stay-at-home mome, just being a mom can be exhausting. Chasing kids around, trying to feed them, changing them, dressing them, cleaning up messes, cooking food, doctor appointments and dentist appointments. This makes me want to thank my mom for all she’s had to put up with.

 

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Shopping Does Actually Motivate Women To Do Wonders, Even Quit Smoking, Research Suggests

Financial incentives could help one in five women quit smoking during pregnancy, according to new research published in the journal Addiction. The study, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge and King’s College London, found that only a small number of women ‘gamed’ the system to receive the incentives whilst continuing to smoke.   …

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Preventing StillBirth May Now Be Possible!

Despite recent dramatic reductions in cot death rates in the UK, and the development of sophisticated screening for Down’s syndrome, preventing stillbirth is proving tougher to tackle. Now, a major study under way at Cambridge could change all that.   In the UK, one in every 200 women reaching their 24th week of pregnancy will …

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Mothers With Gestational Diabetes More Likely to Pass Condition to Child

The University of Cambridge study found obese mothers who developed gestational diabetes are more likely to give birth to children who develop obesity and diabetes during their lives.     The babies of obese women who develop gestational diabetes are five times as likely to be excessively large by six months of pregnancy, according to …

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You Won’t Believe What Happened When This LAdy Delivered A Baby

When a woman came into Perth’s King Edward Memorial Hospital, doctors and staff were not fully prepared for what was about to happen during the birth of her child…     It wasn’t their first time delivering babies here; but this particular one was an astounding 40 lbs.!           According to …