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How a Teenage Boy Taught Me to Be a Mother

JJ Keith | Posted 05.29.2012

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For the first year of my daughter's life, everything was big: big love, big frustration, big anxiety, big mood swings, big me. Not since I was a teen had I been so transfixed by my own now-shriveled navel.

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Motherhood: Ecstatic, Frenzied And Exhausted

Staceyann Chin | Posted 05.13.2012

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Last year, on Mother's day, I found out I was pregnant. I can hardly believe it's been a year since that gleeful Mother's Day. Only a year later, and life is a completely different shade of tumbling. I have become the mother of a rather scrumptious little girl.

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I Love MY Son... But Yours? Not So Much

| Posted 01.01.2012

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By Caitlin Shetterly (Click here for original article.) It wasn't that I didn't want children; I just didn't yearn for them the way some people do....

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Getting To The Bottom Of Motherhood Anxiety

Wendy Litner | Posted 11.17.2011

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I know I want to raise children and have a family, but my disparate feelings toward pregnancy, the biological mechanism by which these lofty goals are achieved, have started to worry me.

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The Busy Home Cook's "Secret"

Nancy Cavillones | Posted 05.25.2011

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So, the "secret" is not really a secret -- it is a time-honored tool in a good home cook's arsenal. Are you ready for this? It's called menu planning. Painfully obvious, no?

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If Companies Really Mean Business on Work and Family Issues...

Dr. Jody Heymann | Posted 05.25.2011

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The United States is exceptional when it comes to workplace policy -- and not in a way that benefits American women, men or companies.

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Tips For Mom: Reclaim Your Mommy Confidence (VIDEO)

The Go-To Mom | 5Min Video | Posted 11.17.2011

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Being a happy mom means figuring out how to reclaim your Mommy Confidence. Learn how to achieve balance, motivation and access your inner diva. The Go...

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Maternal Mortality Rate Rising (VIDEO)

Posted 11.17.2011

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The California Department of Health has reported that the number of women who have died in childbirth is increasing, having tripled in the last 10 yea...

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Bad Mommy: The Sexism Embedded in Women's Views on Breastfeeding and Childbirth

Joyce McFadden | Posted 11.17.2011

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Women shouldn't impose strictures on other women's individuality and choice when we wouldn't want that from men.

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Breastfeeding Benefits--for Moms

Amy Sohn | Posted 11.17.2011

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Even if it makes no difference to babies' future obesity, allergies, or IQ, mothers should still nurse -- for themselves.

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Newborn Babies Switched At Birth

abcnews.com | Chris Strathmann, Rich McHugh, and Imaeyen Ibanga | Posted 11.17.2011

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New mother Kassie Hopkins had an eerie feeling when she was handed her newborn son after his March 28 birth at Heartland Regional Medical Center in Ma...

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