Posts tagged - Advice for Parenting
One thing many women worry about besides their postpartum weight loss is postpartum depression. How do you know if you have postpartum depression or something like it? What are the postpartum symptoms? Well, around 13% of women have depression for the first couple weeks after child birth and may experience a variety of feelings like restlessness, moodiness, being anxious and overwhelmed,
As a parent you will have to make the personal decision of breast or bottle. Don’t worry, you will get many opinions – most of them very strong on one side or the other. There are pros and cons to both!
Obviously, between breastfeeding and bottle feeding, breastfeeding seems to be the ideal nourishment for your baby being that it is what nature had intended. Research has shown that children who breastfeed are passed anti-bodies that help reduce ear infections, diarrhea, allergies, and obesity. It is easily digested and provides many of the vitamins baby needs…
Surely, before you had kids you heard people say that being a mom is and will be the hardest job you will ever do. After you became a mom you quickly realized they were right. It cannot be compared to any full-time job, even one with over-time, because as a mom you literally are never relieved of your duty; there is no time card to swipe out. There are no weekends, evenings, lunch hours and so on, only 24/7 around the clock care.
The great debate: Which age is worse, Two or Three? Is it the terrible twos with the screaming, crying fits, or the thunderous threes with the attitude and sudden outbursts? We’ll let you be the judge! With Maddie her twos were so horrific I’m not sure who cried more, me or her. Let’s get into it… The Terrible Twos At 21 months something snapped inside my daughter that I can’t explain. She went from being my little come-a-long dolly to some kind of beast I could barely control. She found [...]
Don’t toddlers have an incredible reserve when it comes to their energy supply? I know mine keeps me going from the time she awakes to the time she sleeps. These toddler years though are so important in our child’s development – much too important for us to rely on the TV, computer or video games to keep them entertained… we need to have fun and enjoy many different activities with toddlers to keep them going. In this article, I am going to focus on fun activities with toddlers that engage [...]
Maddie has been to many doctor appointments in her lifetime, like a lot of children, whether for a well-child check up or for sickness. She has always done good sitting on my lap but nervous still for the doctor. After her first appointment to get her shots though, this all changed. When it was time to go back for a visit we knew it would not go over smoothly unless we prepared her, so we decided to pretend to be the doctor and acted out a checklist of things the [...]
