Motherhood

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News Flash to Mika Brzezinski: Not All Women Get Your Breaks And Can Have It All

Jill Brooke | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Career Women, Working Mothers, Mika Brzezinski Morning Joe, Motherhood, Careers, Mika Brzezinski, Working Families, Parenting, Families, Media News

Brzezinski seems to lack any compassion for the many women who desperately wanted husbands and children, but fate -- not desire -- worked against them.

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Mothers and Sons: How Close Is Too Close?

Peggy Drexler | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Mama's Boy, Son, Relationships, Mother, Children, Mamas Boy, Overprotective-Mother, Feminine, Motherhood, Parenting, Masculine, Family, Living News

Is your son in danger of becoming a mama's boy? That's the stereotype so many people associate with sons raised by women alone. And like most stereotypes, it simply doesn't hold up to reality.

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My October "Vacation"

Meredith Lopez | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Toddlers, Motherhood, Parenting, Children's Health, Brooklyn, Sick Children, Living News

Loose bowl movements, smashed birthday cake and the Bubonic Plague -- just another month the life of the Princeling.

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This is Not How I Thought It Would Be: Remodeling Motherhood to Get the Lives We Want Today

Kristin Maschka | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Moms, Parenting Tips, Working Mothers, Parenting Advice, Family, Living News

The appearance of the Mother piece of pie presents us with a psychological pie dilemma we have to solve to find ourselves again: How do I integrate this huge new piece of who I am into my Identity Pie without making a big old mess?

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Health Tip: Recovering After Childbirth

Yahoo! News | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Birth, Post-Pregnancy, Pregnancy, Motherhood, Health Tips, Parenting, Babies, Newborn, Health, Pregnant, Childbirth, Living News

New mothers may be so consumed with their newborns that they forget the ordeal of childbirth. How quickly their bodies actually recover is another sto...

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Super Mom: Melissa Lopata

Meredith Lopez | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Mom Blogs, Playdates, The Balanced Life, Park Slope, Working Mothers, Brooklyn, Toddlers, Motherhood, Work-Life Balance, Parenting, Life Balance, Blogging, Living News

When a woman feels creatively, spiritually, and emotionally fulfilled, then she has the mental and physical energy to be the best mom she can be: a Super Mom.

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Are Womb Transplants The Next Frontier In Fertility?

Politics Daily | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Birth, Infertility, Infertility Treatments, Health Insurance, Motherhood, Fatherhood, New Treatments for Infertility, Future, Babies, Fertility Treatments, New Fertility Treatments, Womb Transplants, Results, Parenthood, Health, Home News

Doctors in Britain have announced that they have figured out a process to transplant wombs that could result in healthy pregnancies -- and they estima...

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The New Normal: Die Childless at Thirty

Joan Williams | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Work-Family-Issues, Glass Ceiling, Motherhood, Gender Bias, Work-Life Balance, Gail Collins, Living News

Men have lost three-fourths of the jobs during the Great Recession, making women's wage work more important than ever. Our public policy hasn't caught up.

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How First Candle is Fighting SIDS

Emma Byrne Rooney | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Birth, First Candle, National SIDS Alliance, Charity, Children, Motherhood, Sids, Babies, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, The Giving Life, Living News

Every year, First Candle celebrates another year of helping babies survive and thrive with a beautiful evening of dinner and dancing under the stars.

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Hanging with Motherhood Writer-Director Katherine Dieckmann

Thelma Adams | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Manhattan, Women, Women in Film, Mothers and Sons, Motherhood, Uma Thurman, Parenting, Mothers and Daughters, Screenwriting, Parenthood, Punk, Screenwriters, Mike-Leigh, Katherine Dieckmann, Joan Didion, Women Directors, Working Moms, Entertainment News

I was frustrated by the absence of movies where a mother is the lead and her issues are the film's main focus, where she is a significant character expressing her soul and existence.

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Super Mom: Amanda Doss

Meredith Lopez | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Meredith Lopez, Whip It, Roller Derby, Gotham Girls Roller Derby, Relationships, Independent Film Companies, Roller Skating, Brooklyn, Toddlers, Motherhood, Parenting, Film Companies, Interview, New York, Living News

I met Amanda recently at an October 2008 birthday party for neighborhood babies. She not only skates with Gotham Girls, but also runs two film production companies out of her home in Brooklyn.

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A Real Mom Attends the Motherhood Movie Premiere

Louise Sloan | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Minnie Driver, The Balanced Life, Uma Thurman, Movie Premiere, Living News

The movie premiere reminded that my usual boring, barefoot evenings of reading storybooks and running bubble baths are exactly what I want to be doing right now.

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Navigating Competitive Motherhood Is A Job Unto Itself

Pauline Millard | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Manhattan, Relationships, Working Mothers, Kids, Pauline Millard, Motherhood, Babies, Lactation, Stay at Home Mothers, New York City, Childbirth, Living News

During visits to Madison Square Park, I started to grasp the complicated terrain of Manhattan Motherhood, and how I wished someone had written a guide about what to expect when breeding in New York City.

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Super Mom: Nicole Block

Meredith Lopez | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Meredith Lopez, Working From Home, Stationery, Wahm, Relationships, Maternity Leave, Starting Your Own Business, Graphic Design, Motherhood, Parenting, Babies, Wedding Invitations, Sahm, Interview, Living News

And so, this is the first of a three-part series I'm calling "Super Moms" - interviews with three of my mom friends who lead extraordinary lives beyond diapers and playgrounds.

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A Mother Plays Monday Morning Quarterback

Elizabeth Donoghue | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Concussions, Football, Kids Playing Football, Parenting, Head Injuries, Sports Medicine, Living News

Last week, my ten-year-old son, Mikey, suffered a concussion in third game of his first season of tackle football. I'm in a quandary: do I end tackle football now and forever, or let him play?

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Motherhood Is Not Just For Mothers

Katherine Dieckmann | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Minnie Driver, Films, Motherhood, Anthony Edwards, Uma Thurman, Mothers, Movies, Living News

Movies are stories. Stories that take us places we may not have been to before, in the hope of enlarging our sense of human drama or frailty or complexity.

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Midlife Crisis Shoes

Holly Robinson | Posted 09.28.2009 | Style

Read More: Motherhood, Women, Midlife Crisis, Fashion, Shoes, High Heels, Mothering, El Naturalista, Ecco, Espradilles, Joy Chen, Footwear, Crocs, Merrills, Style News

With four kids in college and one in junior high, it's high time for my midlife crisis. Shoes are cheaper than a boob job, a tummy tuck, or a new car.

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Athlete Mom

Laura Pappano | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Candace Parker, Kim Clijsters, Working Mothers, Keri Walsh, Athlete Moms, Motherhood, Misty May-Treanor, Moms, Living News

As working moms playing gold-medal-worthy competitive beach volleyball in bitsy bikinis, Treanor-May and Walsh may just be giving the rest of us a little more room to move.

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Hips (and Belly and Butt and Thighs) Don't Lie

Meredith Lopez | Posted 09.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Low-Cal Dieting, Prenatal Health, Prenatal Yoga, Yoga, Health, Cardio, Fitness, Pilates, Motherhood, Weight Loss, Baby Weight, Weight Loss After Baby, Low-Carb Dieting, Living News

I spent most of 2007 feeling pretty spectacular about myself. For the first time in my life, I had a flat stomach and thighs that didn't rub together when I wore skirts or dresses. Then I got pregnant.

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Live On Stage: Moms Tell All

Heather Cabot | Posted 09.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Theatre, The Well Mom, Heather Cabot, Moms, Mom-Bloggers, Drug Addiction, Women, Twitter, Children, Family Care International, Theater, Motherhood, Facebook, Babies, Gender, Living News

Through a series of new stage productions in New York and elsewhere, mom bloggers and tweeters will step into the spotlight and tell motherhood like it is to a live audience.

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Female Alcoholics: Their Secret Lives

wellness.com | Elizabeth Weise | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Alcoholics, Women, Mental Health, Women's Issues, Women's Health, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Alcoholic, Motherhood, Alcohol Abuse, Binge Drinking, Drinking, Addiction & Recovery, Living News

The numbers are troubling: An estimated 17.6 million adults in the USA are either alcoholics or have alcohol problems, according to the National Insti...

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A Mom's One Wish: Make Their Future Better

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Raising Children, Health Care, Weddings, Motherhood, Marriage, Living News

At a wedding your mind wanders across some pretty deep territories, like life, love, and the passage of time.

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What's So Scary About Home Birth?

Amie Newman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Out-of-Hospital-Birth, Natural Childbirth, Reproductive Rights, RH Reality Check, Women's Health, Reproductive Health, Motherhood, Home Birth, Midwifery, Childbirth, Cpms, Cnms, Living News

The Today Show presents homebirth as an option to be feared, but that's only because the unknown is often a scary venture. If you listen to women's experiences, It doesn't have to be that way.

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One Vibrant Life

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Aging, Wisdom, Love, Dying, Death & Dying, Death, Living News

I went to a memorial service yesterday for a friend's mother who died at 99. It was full of some 50+ people who knew this extraordinary woman - an ordinary mom who revealed the extraordinary in everyday life.

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