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A two year-old talks about “dwimming” in mummy’s tummy.
The day Melissa turned two, her godmother dropped by to celebrate her birthday. Since Melissa was very articulate for her age, her godmother wanted to try an experiment she had about read in a...
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The Common Sense Approach
My Doctor celebrated each birth with joy. “Good. The head nurse is on coffee break .” Our family doctor and my obstetrician, had warned us to come into town immediately with my first labour pains....
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The Weirdest Thing about My Health
You would think having nine children would turn you into a frazzled wreck with a figure like the Pillsbury Doughboy and a brain gone to mush. Not necessarily. People look at me, their eyebrows shoot...
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Conversation With My Doctor
After moving to the Ottawa Valley with our first child, I became the patient of a very feminist Doctor who was childless, although she did have tropical fish and a parrot. I was an enigma to her as...
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Become a Baby Whisperer
Horse whisperers read a horse’s cues and respond in a way that the horse understands,using body language and voice tones. Baby whisperers relate to infants in a similar way. It is not hard to become a...
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My Doctor Taught Me the Value of A Good Sense of Humour.
When I was pregnant with my sixth child, I went to my first appointment with our new family doctor and now my new obstetrician. He asked me why I was changing doctors and I sighed, “I just can’t face...
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Is a Mother’s Life Her Own?
Is it true that once you have a child, you life is not your own? A child’s whole world revolves around his mother for at least 3 years. In fact infants have no sense of an identity separate from...
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Bonding Before Birth
An unborn child hears and reacts emotionally , not only to his parents but also to all the other people and activity whirling around him. Prenatal babies have personalities before they are born. As any...
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First! Transformed Instantly into a Mother
Daily Prompt: First! Tell us about your first day at something — your first day of school, first day of work, first day living on your own, first day blogging, first day as a parent, whatever....
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Becoming a Mother Inspite of Myself
Thirty odd years ago, I never could have imagined myself as a mother. I was a 23-year old student at the University of Regina on the Canadian prairies. Having just graduated with an Honours Degree in...
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Inspire Me Monday in December: Inspired by a Pregnant Mary
In Greenbush, the snow is falling straight down in huge flakes which absorb sound waves and intensifies the silence of our country home. A deep silence combined with a thick covering of white, clinging...
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