Category: Mom

AN EAST Oxford group created to support new mums struggling with their mental health and wellbeing will celebrate its first birthday today. The Motherkind Cafe was set up by three local mothers to be a mum and baby group ‘with a difference’. It offers free peer support for mothers who are worried about their mental… Read More

YARMOUTH, N.S. — A couple of weeks after this past Mother’s Day, a special gift was exchanged between a Yarmouth mother and her son. It came without hesitation.  It didn’t come wrapped in a box. Rather, it was surrounded by love. From before the time Bradley Verran was born, it was known there was an… Read More

YACOLT, Wash. — You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who loves old furniture more than Andrea Hoffman of Yacolt, Washington. “I love the way it’s built. It’s like dovetail constructed and it’s just a gorgeous piece,” she said, pointing to a recent piece she refurbished in her garage. Hoffman started her company, “Furniture on 5th,”… Read More

Like small portions of ice cream, a trunk-sized freezer within Flagstaff Medical Center’s Birth and Wellness Center holds dozens of bottles filled with a resource just as appreciated as the dessert, but substantially more valuable: donated breastmilk. Collected, sanitized and shipped frozen by a milk bank in Colorado, donor milk has been used in the… Read More

Jacqueline  Murakatete, a tailor in Nyabisindu cell, Remera sector of Gasabo district inthe capital Kigali, was, four years ago, devastated by giving birth to a premature baby girl as a result of not having proper diet foods during pregnancy. In her view, this incident was caused by a situation in which she was undergoing stressful… Read More

IMAGE: Eivind Meland. view more  Credit: UiB “This demonstrates that contact with both parents after a divorce is important,” says Professor Eivind Meland at the Department of Global Public Health and Care, University of Bergen. According to numbers from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health around 40 per cent of all teenagers have experienced a divorce.… Read More

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 | 12:01 AM Submitted by Elizabeth Cook Elizabeth Cook of Emsworth recently released a book, “Reflective Awareness: Experience Life to the Fullest.” Over the years, Elizabeth Cook has repeatedly been asked, “How do you do it?” The mom of six climbed the corporate ladder in a male-dominated profession and is living… Read More

Born in the States but living in Canada, I’ve always been amused by some of the silly things said by those who reject “Medicare For All” in the U.S., describing health care in Canada as being all about long waits, lack of choice of doctors, and of course, “death panels.” In the last few years… Read More

(L) Tanya Chaitanya and Deepak Lamba (R) Femina, the women-centric magazine, released a research report called ‘All About Women’, targeted at millennial mothers. This report is an in-depth analysis and gives a peek at consumer behaviour, lifestyle, habits, purchasing power and interpersonal relationships along with many other facets of a working millennial mother. The research… Read More

Details Written by Brooklyn Toews Published: 12 January 2020 Postpartum is a word that is increasingly finding its way into the world’s vocabulary, but what does it actually mean? Does it look like a “normal” depression for want of a better word? Well, for new mothers it can be as simple as not feeling like… Read More