All posts tagged "mother health"
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Baby Blues: I’m Trying Hippie Dippie Mood Therapy Instead Of Medication
If my home birth or eating my placenta didn't give it away, I'll say it...
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Baby Blues: Spending Time Away From My Baby Makes Me Feel Healthier
There was no toddler tugging at my leg. I didn’t have to tread softly lest I wake her...
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Absurd Abortion Restrictions Just Make For More Gosnell ‘Screeching’ Aborted Babies In Back Alley Clinics
The horrific case of Dr. Kermit Gosnell of Pennsylvania abusing female patients in desperate need of...
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Study Posits That Popping Antidepressants During Pregnancy Won’t Result In Teenie Tiny Stunted Babies
On the always controversial topic of pregnancy and antidepressants, an admittedly very small study gives mothers suffering from...
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Baby Blues: The Isolation Of Motherhood Makes My PPD Worse
Motherhood is many things: primal, competitive, loving, complicated, necessary But one of its many definitions doesn’t make...
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Baby Blues: I Can’t Be Honest With My Mom About My PPD Because She’s A SAHM Martyr
I’m having a hard time letting go of what happened that day at the mall, when I hesitantly...
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You’re Fat Because You’re Not Scrubbing The Floors Like A Good 1960s Wife — And Irrationally Pissed About It
It's no secret that we're a big fat nation. Child obesity may be on the decline...
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Baby Blues: I’m Getting A Part-Time Job To Save My Sanity — And Therefore My Daughter
If it weren’t for my postpartum depression, maybe I’d be okay with continuing to work exclusively at home....
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I Finally Caught A Break In My Postpartum Depression
I was reluctant to admit it to the world, but it’s a fact and I shouldn’t be ashamed...
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I Said I Refused To Be Freaked Out By My ‘Advanced Maternal Age.’ I Lied
I said I wasn't going to let the "advanced maternal age" boogey monster...
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People Mag Says Jessica Simpson’s Morning Sickness Is A ‘Good Thing’ So She Doesn’t Get Fat
Professional Weight Watchers spokesperson Jessica Simpson is making the rounds promoting yet another pregnancy -- and a "lifestyle" --...
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Anonymous Mom: I’ve Been Drinking Through My Pregnancy
This pregnancy comes on the heels of a miscarriage. As a result, I’ve spent the past nine weeks...
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The First Trimester Is Great, Even Though You Feel Like Crap
The first trimester is the hardest part of a pregnancy. You haven't started showing yet, but you are...
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Like Pregnant Kate Middleton, I Had Hyperemesis — And I Considered Abortion Because Of It
I wanted to weep for her.
