Sound interesting? I received a wonderful invitation to guest post at the TheLaughingStork.com, a blog by the amazingly funny Candy Kirby. My post is live TODAY!
Please, click to this link to read about how take-out saved my marriage and take a moment to check-out the other goodies on this clever patchwork of stories about pregnancy and parenthood. Thank you Candy!
Assisted Reproduction Has No Affect on Birthing Process or the Baby’s Outcome
Researchers looked at 1.2 million women whose births were registered between 1984 and 2006. The researchers found no difference in birth weight, gestational age, risks of being small for gestational age, and preterm delivery when they compared infants of women who had conceived spontaneously and infants conceived after assisted fertilization. This is great news!
Vegetarian No More: Pregnancy made me do it says Tiffani Thiessen
Theissen hates admitting it, but the cravings for red meat made her cave. Even a strong vegetarian can’t stand up to those cravings. Now I don’t feel so bad about my ice cream binges. (more…)
Moms can be meanies. It’s no surprise that when I wrote about this sad fact on my blog, I had nearly a dozen responses of women sharing their experience of being attacked by other moms.
Jen, who has a 5 year old son with Autism explained that when he was younger she would keep him on a baby harness so he wouldn’t run off on her outside, which he had done many times. She had one mother telling her she was treating her son like a dog. Another told her she was cruel.
Georgia wrote that she was attacked during her pregnancy for gaining too much weight and deciding to induce labor. But everyone has their reasons.
For Georgia, she induced because (more…)
You find out you’re pregnant. You start shopping, or at least thinking about it. When is it reasonable to buy maternity clothes? 8 weeks? 12 weeks? Second trimester? Do you have to be showing before you start looking at cribs and paint colors? Is it ridiculous to stop moms in the street to ask them about their stroller?
One of my closest friends just entered second trimester. After nearly 10 weeks of waiting, she has released herself from the hold of “no shopping until…” and off she went to buy and buy and buy. Her husband thinks the shopping is a coping mechanism to deal with the pregnancy. I don’t.
I think it’s (more…)
My friend, Robin Saks Frankel, who is a stay-at-home mom (SAHM) and founder of Crib Notes, an e-newsletter for parents of kids ages zero to three, told me that she loves her husband, but she can’t stand him when he offers opinions on raising their young children. “When my husband has parenting suggestions I get annoyed, even though he certainly has the right as the daddy to be a part of the decision-making process.”
Despite her admission of his fatherly rights, the emotional tug of “You don’t know what you’re talking about!” is too much of a draw and they get into unnecessary fights. After all, she doesn’t tell her husband what to do at work, so why should he interfere with her job at home? I can imagine her rolling her eyes at her partner’s naïve parenting suggestion like “just ignore him” when their toddler throws his vegetables on the floor. Her response: Ignore him? When I do that he just continues throwing the rest of the food on the floor and he eats nothing for dinner.
My advice for her and for any loving mother and wife is (more…)
Hi! I'm Laurie Puhn, a relationship communications expert, family lawyer-mediator and best-selling author of "Instant Persuasion". Welcome to our blog for expecting couples!
