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Being Childfree
Posted by: 1wmcaw on: August 18, 2009
You know, I have a lot of respect for people who choose to remain childfree. If you know yourself well enough to know that you would not make a great parent, more power to you. I do believe that too many people have children without thinking through the amount of work parenthood entails. As a [...]
The Key to Parenting: Sacrifice
Posted by: 1wmcaw on: August 4, 2009
I’ve often had trouble putting into words how I feel about parenting. People are often “turned off” when I say that I come second behind my kids, that I will do anything for them. While they are young, I ride in the backseat, guiding where necessary.
Well, I recently read the most apt description of parenting [...]
A Quick Promo
Posted by: 1wmcaw on: July 11, 2009
I just want to give a little shout out to a fabulous researcher. If anyone has questions about infant sleep–how it works, what is best, how to decrease SIDS risk–please read Dr. James McKenna’s “Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent’s Guide to Cosleeping.”
Not only is this a quick, easy read for sleep-deprived parents, but it [...]
Breastfeeding affects behavior
Posted by: 1wmcaw on: November 2, 2008
Breast-Fed Baby May Mean Better Behaved Child
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter by Serena Gordon
healthday Reporter Wed Oct 29, 7:03 pm ET
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) — Add yet another potential benefit to breast-feeding: Fewer behavioral problems in young children.
Parents of youngsters who were breast-fed as infants were less likely to report that [...]
Crazy during every season…
Posted by: 1wmcaw on: September 11, 2008
You know, we often refer to summertime as the “crazy travel season.” Everybody takes to the road and goes around visiting as many people as they can while the weather is good. Then comes Fall.
I happen to think Fall is a more intense “crazy” season. Kids go back to school, parents have used up all [...]
More from the Mommy Wars
Posted by: 1wmcaw on: July 14, 2008
(LifeWire) — When Christine Durst, 45, had her first child in 1987, she received a package from her boss while recuperating in the hospital. But instead of a baby gift, she found something else: year-end tax forms to complete.
“My son lay sleeping in his bed next to mine while I toiled away in the [...]
Wanna be truly happy? Don’t have kids!
Posted by: 1wmcaw on: July 2, 2008
An excerpt from NEWSWEEK:
Today, we have kids more for emotional reasons, but an increasingly complicated work and social environment has made finding satisfaction far more difficult. A key study by University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Sara McLanahan and Julia Adams, conducted some 20 years ago, found that parenthood was perceived as significantly more stressful in the 1970s [...]
Did you miss me?
Posted by: 1wmcaw on: June 26, 2008
- In: Health| PCOS| Relationships| culture| feminism
- 3 Comments
Ha! You know I couldn’t stay away that long. Fortunately, my testing this morning was minimal.
I will say this though, seeing the right doctor at the right hospital makes all the difference. I’m not sure I’ll ever waste my time again on private practice doctors where I live again. Any more, I’m headed [...]
More Internet Musings
Posted by: 1wmcaw on: June 18, 2008
I’ve recently discovered that people take the Internet way more seriously than they should.
I used to be involved in an Internet community if you will allow the phrase, that I found when I had been newly diagnosed with PCOS. I was looking for information about the condition, as well as for support in my efforts [...]
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