Category Archives: Motherhood
Maternal Mortality Rates for African-American Women
Maternal Mortality Rates for African-American Women. High rates of obesity, raised blood pressure and insufficient prenatal care cause death from childbirth more frequently for African-Americans in the U. S. than for whites and other ethnicities. Worsening this trend are the inflating numbers of cesarean sections nationally. These procedures may result in dangerous complications for girls … Continue reading
Dealing with your baby’s gender
One of the most common issues parents have to face is accepting the baby’s gender. Aside from expecting a healthy baby, most parents have expectations about their desired gender for their baby. This is most apparent in delivery rooms. Parents can sometimes, unintentionally, show dissatisfaction if they’ll find out the opposite of their expectations. Ultrasound … Continue reading
How Does a Mother Accept Her Own Imperfections?
A mother is a human being and just like everyone else has bad days which show although she may try to conceal it. She knows exactly what she needs to do to build self esteem in her children, to talk to them so they will listen, to listen to them so they will talk. She … Continue reading
Avoiding Sleep Deprivation When You Bring Home Baby
One of the hardest things to adjust to when you first bring home your precious bundle of joy is that sleep seems to be gone forever. Not only do you have a sleep deficit built up from those last few uncomfortable weeks of pregnancy, now you have to get up every couple of hours and … Continue reading
Baby Diapers: Disposable vs. Cloth
Disposable diapers are a relatively recent development stemming from back in the 1940s when women began to enter the workforce in greater numbers than ever before. Naturally, with many of the men off to war and the women working, there simply wasn’t the time and resources available to the family anymore so many convenience products … Continue reading
Controlling Your Anger around Your Children
We have all been angry at one time or another and we know how paralyzing and debilitating it can be no matter the reason or situation. But if you unleash your anger on your children, in can terrify and degrade them. Physical and verbal abuse of children is always wrong for the long-term and can … Continue reading
6 Great Ideas for Single Mom’s Escape
Whenever married moms need “time-out”, it usually means they need time alone – for shopping, a relaxing massage or facial, a cup of coffee, curling up with a good book or watching a rerun of a favorite black-and-whit movie. With kids, husband, in-laws, maids, household chores, parents’ meetings in school, marketing and grocery budgets and … Continue reading
CIVIL STATUS: SINGLE MOM
In this day and age being a single mom is no longer an issue. I realized this when I was enrolling my son at school. In the application form, on the field status there is a box to tick for a single parent. Also for divorced. I appreciate this fact that society now acknowledges being … Continue reading
LETTER OF A SEVEN YEAR OLD BOY TO HIS SINGLE MOM
As I was having lunch with my girl friends, one of them, a single mom, shared a heart warming story. One day when she was organizing her papers, she came across a folded paper. She opened it from its airplane form and it was a letter from her seven year old son. Just looking at … Continue reading
FEARS OF A SINGLE MOM
Life in itself is a maze. There are a lot of uncertainties, a lot of choices to make. Choosing the wrong turn may be for the good or the bad. Often times we are faced with crossroads. We may have the leisure of taking our time to process which path to take but usually we … Continue reading
