What About Sex During Pregnancy? Your feelings about sex may change during pregnancy. These normal feelings are common: Body changes such as nausea, tiredness, or breast tenderness will affect your desire for sex. What you find exciting may also change. Some women don’t want to have sex, but want to be hugged, cuddled, and loved. Read More
Parent Tips
Pregnancy Discomfort
You’ll probably have some of these normal (but irritating) discomforts during pregnancy. Try the following measures to help you cope with them. If you’re worried, call your doctor or midwife for advice. Nausea and Vomiting It’s common to feel sick to your stomach in the first months of pregnancy. This is sometimes called morning sickness, Read More
Why Self Care?
Why is it important to take care of yourself when you are a parent? If you were going to run a marathon, you would probably do several of the items on this list: Being a parent is like running a marathon every day! What are the benefits of practicing self-care everyday? Puts Gas in Your Read More
Making “No” Easier
The Power of “Maybe” Your child: Mommy, I want…[this, that, the other thing].You: No.Your child: Please….You: I said no!Your child: It’s not fair! (Stomp, stomp, door slam.) Sound familiar? How nice it would be if “no” were all it took: “Okay, Mommy, what ever you say.” Back to reality… When the answer is no (and Read More
Eat Your Veggies!
Some vegetables can be bitter, and we have a built-in, survival reaction to avoid eating bitter things-it could be poison! Adults can override this instinct (and our taste buds dull as we age), but some children are overly sensitive to bitter tastes. This can be a genetic predisposition, and not simply a case of your Read More
Plants and Kids
Don’t Eat The Philodendron! If you are like me, you have been filling your house with plants for years. Or maybe you simply have one or two favorites around for a little greenery and life. Either way, it is important to know that some common household plants are poisonous to children and pets. When I Read More