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Sleep Training Your Baby: Does It Work?

divinecaroline.com | Annie Tucker Morgan | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress. Anxiety. Babies, Sleep Training, Newborns, Baby, Insomnia, Sleep Study, Parenting, Richard Ferber, Sleep, Exhaustion, Living News

Most parents expect to live in a daze when their baby is a newborn. But if the tumultuous routine of waking up every few hours persists after the firs...

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

Joyce McFadden | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: New Mothers, Nursing, Newborns, Breastfeeding, Mothering, Sexism, Childbirth, Caesarean, Living News
Joyce McFadden

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

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Loved Twice: Mother Gives 20,000 Lbs Of Clothes To Underprivileged Newborns (VIDEO)

Toan Lam | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: University of San Francisco, Go Inspire, Newborns, Lisaklein, Lovedtwice, Toan Lam, Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi, Go Inspire Go, Loved Twice, Academy of Art, Arianna Huffington, Lisa Klein, Inspiration, Toan-Lam, Toanlam, Usf, Goinspirego, Inspire, Living News
Toan Lam

For the past two years, Lisa has packed more than 20,000 pounds of kids clothes for underprivileged newborns living in and around Oakland, California -- Kids that would otherwise leave the hospital without the baby basics.

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World Breastfeeding Week: Breastfeeding Is a Feminist Issue

Amie Newman | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, RH Reality Check, Feminism, Breastfeeding, Reproductive Rights, Women's Rights, Newborns, Parenting, Living News
Amie Newman

Breastfeeding is not simply a "choice" women make. It is a decision women make based on a tremendous variety of social and medical factors.

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Breastfeeding Benefits--for Moms

Amy Sohn | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living

Read More: New Mothers, Parenting, World Breastfeeding Week, Newborns, Benefits of Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding, Living News
Amy Sohn

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

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Breastfeeding Around the World

Barbara Dehn | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Benefits of Breastfeeding, Baby Formula Standards, Breast-Milk-Benefits, Newborns, Breastfeeding, Baby Formula, Raising Children, Toddlers, Breast Milk, Babies, Living News
Barbara Dehn

Babies and toddlers are the most vulnerable to serious bacterial infections leading to diarrhea, dehydration and in some cases, even death when the water supply is compromised.

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The Most Common Disease You've Never Heard Of

Randall Amster | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Anemia, US Military, Military, Newborns, Health, Screening, Food Additives, Racism, Food, Genetics, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Soy, g6pd, Malaria, The Balanced Life, Living News
Randall Amster

G6PD is an essential enzyme that is lacking in people with this widespread genetic disorder, and its absence leads to a condition that is closely related to other forms of anemia.

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Incorporating Mindfulness into Motherhood

Cassandra Vieten | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Parenting Tips, Mindful Motherhood, Mindfulness, Newborns, Motherhood, Parenting, Babies, Mothers, Living News
Cassandra Vieten

Mindful Motherhood is a way of approaching all of the experiences you'll encounter as a mom with open eyes and an open heart.

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Leading the Way to Make Mothers Day Every Day

Donna E. Shalala | Posted 06.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Developing Countries, Countdown to Mother's Day, Newborns, Mother's Day, Health, Newborn Health, Maternal Health, Healthcare, Infant Mortality, Health in Developing Countries, Maternal Mortality, Mothers Day Every Day Campaign, Living News
Donna E. Shalala

Progress is being made to save the lives of mothers and newborns around the world. Still, every minute, a woman dies of complications in pregnancy and childbirth.

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The Bliss Myth: Cut the Crap, Mommies

Galt Niederhoffer | Posted 07.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Parenting, Moms, Parenting Tips, Newborns, Parenting Advice, Working Moms, Living News
Galt Niederhoffer

After four years of motherhood, I finally know the truth: mothers of young children are not in a state of bliss

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Newborn Babies Switched At Birth

abcnews.com | Chris Strathmann, Rich McHugh, and Imaeyen Ibanga | Posted 04.22.2008 | Living

Read More: New Mothers, Babies Switched at Birth, Gma, Newborns, Giving Birth, Newborns Switched, Living News

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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