A volatile stock market, unpredictably disastrous weather, home mortgage crises and tightening credit crunch all add up to increasingly difficult home environments. Some of the most at-risk members of our population include pregnant and postpartum mothers. They are already coping with tremendous hormone and brain chemistry changes, and have a biological imperative to establish a safe haven for their new charges.
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I thought back to all the times I’d tried to warn her and I knew I was partially to blame. It’s true. We don’t tell our pregnant friends everything, not because we don’t think they can take it, not because we [...]
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Hello again and welcome once again to Family Life! Family Life is a new blog dedicated to the stories that come from being a family. The point of sharing these stories? Perhaps so you can identify, to laugh, to cry, to cope, to perhaps take your own circumstances less seriously.
Yesterday I made passing mention to [...]
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