It is so cathartic for me to be surrounded
by other mothers who have experienced the loss but are still raising other small children.
They are surrounded
by other mothers who won't object if their babies peep or nurse, and they can make a quick exit if necessary.
Mothers who formula feed their babies are all - too - often shunned
by other mothers who feel like if you don't feed your baby from your body, you're a selfish quitter.
Not exact matches
Menon referenced research
by sociologist Mark Granovetter,
who found that most people don't secure job opportunities through strong ties — think
mother, father, significant
other.
We should learn from those
who are dying that the best way to teach our children about God is
by loving each
other wholly and forgiving each
other fully - just as each of us longs to be loved and forgiven
by our
mothers and fathers, sons and daughters.
This article
by Richard John Neuhaus,
who passed away January 8, 2009, was published in the February 1999 issue of First Things, and is reprinted below in honor of the feast day of
Mother Teresa.A couple of years ago physicist Alan Sokal published an article in Social Text arguing in the most abstruse postmodernistic jargon that gravity, among
other things, is a social construct.
The image of a woman
who is battered for 20 years
by her clergyman husband and
who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young
mother and father
who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman
who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the
other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker
who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest
who would make sexual advances on a woman
who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.
Castro's
mother,
who was also trying to do things right, married a man in the church
who was much admired
by others.
It was
Mother Teresa
who in 1987 said «you get closer to Christ
by coming closer to each
other on earth».
One home was headed
by my sophisticated, East Coast - born, feminist
mother; the
other by my down - to - earth, Idaho - bred father,
who held fast to his traditionalist views.
The
mother who raises (rather than aborts) a Down syndrome child is falsely made equivalent «in
other contexts, with creativity» (not
by Moran, but
by the self - defined creative class).
Other facts: according to the gospels
by Peter, Paul, and Matthew, Jesus»
mother was a virgin
who gave birth to Jesus,
who also walked on water and brought a man back from death.
She was not like
other moms we knew,
who seemed to
mother with their whole selves and as if
by nature.
Philomena traces the heart - wrenching journey of a devout Irish woman (played
by the incomparable Judi Dench)
who sets out to find her long lost son, whom she was forced to give up for adoption as a teenager
by nuns
who kept her like a prisoner in a convent full of
other unwed
mothers in the 1950s.
He is not a friend
who always eagerly suspects a breach and looks out for faults; but he with whom he dwells as a son at the breast (of his
mother), he is indeed a friend that can not be severed (from him)
by others.
In the spring of 1997, around the time that Hughes,
who worked as a salesman for a video company, abused three boys at once in his office — he molested the boys one at a time while the
other two watched — the
mother of another victim was folding her son's underwear and putting it in a drawer when she saw, hidden among the clothes, a letter written
by her son to his girlfriend.
Nine - tenths of the island was purchased in 1659 from Thomas Mayhew (
who also owned Martha's Vineyard at the time)
by a syndicate of Massachusetts colonists whose names live on in the present - day Coffins, Folgers (Benjamin Franklin's
mother was a Nantucket - born Folger), Starbucks, Macys (one of whom started a department store in New York and didn't tell Gimbels), Gardners, Colemans, Husseys, Worths — among
others.
On the
other side of the court, St. Patrick — St. Vincent is led
by their prized sophomore, center # 22 Dishon Jackson at 6» 8» 220 lbs,
who has athletic jeans from both parents — his
mother, Shabaki played basketball at CAL and his father Joshua was a basketball standout at Cal State Hayward (now CSU - East Bay).
WIC
by no means is excited about the numbers but they do want to move forward and include peer councilors into the normal visit to encourage pregnant
mothers as well as
mothers who are currently breastfeeding the opportunity to get support from
other mothers like myself
who have breastfed.
Both kids (and despite the legal distinction that they are of majority age, they are still kids at that age, especially considering that both have been traumatized
by the loss of their sister a few years ago) felt abandoned, and have had barely any contact with their
mother in the five months that she's been gone (their
mother has initiated no contact with our children, one of whom still lives with me and commutes to college, while the
other is a college freshman, but
who comes here during vacations).
Research shows that young
mothers who feel supported
by their baby's father adjust better to motherhood and behave more positively towards their children — for whom a good relationship with «my dad» proves protective in face of
other disadvantage.
The punches didn't come out of nowhere, of course; the
mother felt that she was rudely approached
by the
other woman,
who'd asked her to quiet her screaming child in the store and then told the
mother to «go to hell» after receiving a negative response, and thus, the
mother transitioned from «angry mom of screaming toddler» to «violent mom of screaming toddler» as she threw punches in the parking lot.
I think the real faultline is between, on the one hand, those
who believe that
mothers should stay at home and fathers should work — a view passionately held
by many men and women — and, on the
other hand, those
who believe that parents
who want to do things differently should have the choice to do so.
Teen
mothers who come to La Leche League meetings generally find themselves welcomed and supported
by the
other mothers.
Some of the
other mothers also talked about additional contributing factors, such as the stress caused
by unsolicited advice, feeling trapped with family members
who are insensitive to the emotional needs of a new
mother, or struggling with loneliness or past history of depression as a new
mother.
The Association is run
by mothers who wish to support
other women
who difficult childbirth experiences.
One of my kids is angry at me, my BF and I had a huge fight and when I went to go cry it all out at my
mother's grave, I discovered that the rocks and
other things I'd left on her tombstone were gone — removed, no doubt
by the sibling
who's been bullying me.
This feeling of being excluded may be reinforced
by health and
other professionals
who may also assume he doesn't want to be involved, especially if he is not living with the
mother.
I am hoping to have a progressive home and raise my daughter to be open and aware, but I do not think I will allow someone elses child into my home to possibly infect or abuse my daughter... He could certainly be a great guy, or he could not be... He could be a bad guy
who could change my daughter
by hurting her in many different ways... Sex is sex, but another human being being raised
by some one you do not know could potentially be harmful... Even if I know the
other childs
mother or father... the
other child could be not so good at heart... I will just raise my child to focus on herself and her future and her education and wants, needs, likes, and dislikes before jumping in the bed with some body
who could hit her, impregnat her, or give her an STD: S
Many
mothers who work outside the home or have suffered from complications with lactation try to get their babies used to bottle feeding so that they may be fed
by other caretakers.
As
mothers we can help
other parents
who are doing the best they can
by being less judgmental and more honest in sharing our triumphs and failures.
A breastfed baby depends on his
mother for both food and comfort and in societies that place a high value on self - sufficiency, the baby
who will not be satisfied with anyone
other than his
mother may regarded
by many as a liability.
La Leche League International (LLLI) is a non-profit organization founded in 1956
by seven women
who wanted to help
other mothers breastfeed their babies.
So
by 1956, I was the happy, though often tired,
mother of four beautiful daughters under the age of seven, I was married to an incredibly supportive husband, and I'd met five people
who would become key players in the rest of my life: Doctors Ratner and White, Mary White, Edwina Froehlich, and Betty Wagner,
who, along with three
other women I was soon to meet, would become the cornerstone of an effort that would ultimately affect
mothers and babies around the world...
By aggressively promoting their own choices, aggressively demeaning the choices of
other mothers, and aggressively insisting that anyone
who makes different choices is implicitly criticizing them, advocates of attachment parenting, homebirth, lactivism, etc. encourage the very conflicts that they claim to deplore.
To quote myself: If you are one of those women
who can't seem to offer your «support» without judging
other women either directly or passive aggressively, if you do denigrate formula feeding
mothers in the name of upholding women
who want to breastfeed, if you spread outright lies about formula companies and the product they sell, you are doing nothing but feeding into the hype and exacerbating the anxiety felt
by some of the very
mothers you claim to express concern for.......
In August of 2009, researchers reported that women
who have a
mother, sister, or
other type of close relative
who suffered from breast cancer cut their risk for developing the disease
by 59 % if they breastfeed their babies.
Consider organizations like
Mothers Against Drunk Driving, started
by parents
who suffered the ultimate loss, to ensure that
other parents would not have to endure the death of a child.
Seventeen - month - old kids
who were rated
by their
mothers as anxious, difficult, or emotionally disturbed were more likely than
other children to have bad dreams at 29 months (Simard et al 2008).
«In this anthology, we are exploring how we are informed
by and participating with those
mothers, especially radical women of color,
who have sought for decades, if not centuries, to create relationships to each
other, transformative relationships to feminism and a transnational anti-imperialist literary, cultural and everyday practice.»
With everything I said, not one came and commented in support of women
who adopt being supported
by the
mothering community, not one came to support the millions of
mothers on antidepressants or
other meds
who are caring for themselves a d hence caring for their babies.
The resources available through this site offer immediate, personal support to
mothers and
others who are struggling with birth trauma, PTSD after childbirth and anxiety caused
by their birthing experiences.
Trusted research
by Dr. James McKenna, Director of the
Mother - Baby Sleep Laboratory of the University of Notre Dame, showed that
mothers and babies
who sleep close to each
other enjoy similar protective sleep patterns [as Asian cultures, which co-sleep and have the lowest SIDS rates known].
Aside from all the
mothers who quickly learn to use infant formula because they are embarrassed
by their hungry babies when there is no private space to breastfeed, women in the U.S. often fail at breastfeeding because they do not have adequate opportunity to observe
other women breastfeeding.
ORLANDO — Nursing
mothers who attempt to ward off food allergies in their babies
by avoiding milk, nuts, and
other risky foods may be doing more harm than good, researchers said here.
Babies
who are gently led to their tummies while being talked through it
by their
mothers / fathers were more receptive to it and did not cry like
others who were simply placed on their stomachs.
Of course its the
mothers choice and that should be respected but don't knock
others decisions
who said yes as they felt they are doing best
by their baby.
I tried to match Johnson and Daviss as specifically as possible
by adding in the additional variables of singleton (not twins or
other multiples) and looking at Certified Nurse Midwives,
who tend to care for lower - risk
mothers than obstetricians.
Devastated, and hurt
by those
who couldn't empathize, Tara reached out to
other loss
mothers.
I have spoken to so many
mothers who are sick of being preached at, and frankly almost bullied
by other parents because their baby hasn't learned self soothe
by three months old.