Mom guilt is pervasive among mothers and can have a relentless grip that impacts all of your decisions. It can present as a range of emotions when you feel like you’re not doing enough, feel you are not parenting the right way, or believe you’re making decisions that may hurt your children in the future. It can also affect your children.
Learning to tolerate our children’s big emotions is difficult, but super important and completely possible. Dr. Hilary Mandzik dispels four common myths about children’s meltdowns to help you navigate your kid’s big feelings and your own triggers from your childhood.
Teaching your children how to take ownership and responsibility for their own goals, and then working towards those goals is a huge part of parenting. We need to encourage responsibility and Nicole Wallace, LCMHC offers tips on the process.
Breastfeeding is natural, so it must be easy, right?! While some breastfeeding parents – the lucky ones – seem to latch their baby from day 1 with ease, for most parents, breastfeeding takes work. It’s helpful to prepare for breastfeeding and to have a plan if you find you are struggling with breastfeeding.
There are many intricate parts of infertility. How does a woman know when they should seek professional help because they have not conceived? Dr. Erika Aragona, Family Medicine Physician clarifies for us.
In part 4 of our series, we’re breaking down the aspects of your social safety net that can help you navigate the life changes of becoming a parent and raising a child.
Our parenting journey contains a lot of timelines that begin in pregnancy and continue throughout motherhood. There are timelines for baby development in utero, healing after birth, our children’s development, the six weeks check timeline and the timelines we give ourselves for healing. Postpartum even has different timelines. Jenna Somich offers a way of reframing our expectations on timelines to keep us present.
After giving birth, who can provide you with the mental and emotional support you need and deserve? In part 3 of our series, we’re breaking down the potential members of your care team who can help you feel mentally and emotionally supported.
As we navigate decisions associated with motherhood, we want to know that we are understanding what is being told to us in order to make an informed choice. However, it can be hard to know what to ask to be truly active in the consent process. As a fertility and birth doula, Emily shares ways that you can make an informed decision about a topic even if you are unfamiliar with it.
As parents, it is our job to ground our children in a strong counter narrative: gaining weight is a normal part of growing up and being a human; kids’ bodies and adults’ bodies come in all different shapes and sizes, none inherently more valuable than the other; and our value as people does not depend on beauty, size, or health.
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