If you’re on maternity leave, keep those daily walks, exercise routines and tight pants on at meal times. Research from Sweden shows that gaining weight after your first child is born can lead to increased risks when delivering the second.
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Regular readers will know that if there is one obsession that governs my life it is sleep.
About a week ago, the baby and I had a few rough night while she cut her first tooth. The same day I wrote my blog entry on the topic, Weary Parent posted these tips for getting a good […]
We’re waiting for my sister to give birth. She’s beyond the beached-whale stage of pregnancy and called me for the mineral-oil induction recipe that worked for me. The only problem is, I forgot to tell her that you have to follow the recipe exactly, or it doesn’t work. She didn’t and it didn’t. Writing a […]
Infants who don’t properly bond with their mothers are at greater risk of anti-social behaviour later in life. According to a report in today’s online edition of The Scotsman, a team of Scottish researchers has developed a ten-minute test to be tried in the city of Fyfe this year. It is hoped that, if the […]
Congratulations to Robyn at Inside Motherhood. Robyn, who recently took over writing the blog, is featured at this week’s Blog Jolt, an emothers online initiative.
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For more than 2 decades, Working Mother magazine has published an annual list of the most mother-friendly companies to work for.
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I had to read this announcement from the Irish news twice. Women, it seems, requested that visiting hours in the one of country’s main maternity hospitals be reduced.
“After a woman has had a baby or an operation, the first few days are key for optimum rest and recovery,” said the master of the National Maternity […]
In honour of my friend who just pushed out her second nine pound daughter, and new mothers everywhere, I re-post this little missive.
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I thought I might blog about an article from Canadian Living called 8 Quick Cures for Crankiness, but then I realised that I am quite enjoying my crankiness at the moment. Everyone else gets to do it, why shouldn’t I?
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Apparently women on maternity leave feel they are “invisible” at work, says a new study.
A report from the Scotsman on research published today in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology quotes Dr Lynne Millward of Surrey University as saying that women often find it difficult to return to work after being on maternity leave.
Staying […]
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