Sentences with phrase «couple had their first child»

When highly educated, dual - career couples have their first child, both spouses think the baby increases their workloads by equal amounts — but a new study suggests that's not true.

In 2002, the couple had their first child, Peter, and a year later Lawrence was born.

Last February, the Winnipeg - based couple had their first child, Carter, shortly after purchasing their first home the year before.

Sushant had bought a term cover at the age of 30, when the couple had their first child, Aman.

Not exact matches

I recently took a couple months off of my duties at Inc. to have my first child.

After two years together, the couple have welcomed a dog, moved into their own home at Kensington Palace, and are now preparing for the their first child this summer.

We joined an abusive, (house / semi-communal) «Bible» church primarily because it seemed to provide what we desperately felt we needed at that time, as a young couple, expecting our first child: Stability, Clarity of belief, «Coolness», Community, and a sense that we were joining something that promised it was going to have a great impact on the culture in the future, and we were thus getting in on the «bottom floor.»

First, the couple were devastated to discover that they couldn't have children.

You're right, Your Answer, what should not matter is whether it was a «couple» having the children as much as the fact that they (gays and lesbians) chose to have them in the first place by whatever means.

There are two children — Mark, 13, a skinny big - eyed lad who just the week before had shot his first elephant, and Gail, 8, a tomboy who was growing a couple of teeth to fill a vacancy in front.

Walsh and the couple's surviving children, Craig, 47, and Elizabeth, 35 (their oldest son, Steve, died of leukemia in 2002 at age 46) have made arrangements for Geri to receive care if Bill should die first.

But as research indicates, childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, despite numerous studies that indicate marital happiness plummets in the first year or two after the birth of a child and sometimes never quite recoups.

, an international social group for people without children, and one by Laura S. Scott, author of «Two is Enough: A Couple's Guide to Living Childless by Choice,» couples often decide not to have kids because they want to put their relationship first — having kids can get in the way.

But that might have been the problem; childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, according to researchers, despite numerous studies that indicate marital happiness plummets in the first year or two after the birth of a child and sometimes never quite recoups.

on our first child i would stay up a little later with the baby so my wife could get even just a couple hours sleep then we would swap.

My husband and I are expecting our first child and we always imagined that we would be that couple that countinues to travel with baby.

Like the need for their children to have them home, their first holidays as a married couple I was asked if I remembered how it was My first Christmnas as a wife, It was the most lonely time in my life, My husband was 150 feet under the surface Atlantic ocean.

Ideally, the first months of family life, rather than often being in the care of a single adult or couple, children should have the opportunity to observe and interact with a wide range of people with varying degrees of commitment to their well - being.

A friend of mine will be having her first child in a couple of months and she's interested in cloth diapers.

As many young couples do, when my first husband and I started talking about having a family, we had our list of things we would not allow our children to do.

Z at age 7 was in Junior Club, my worry for him was that he'd be alone whereas the girls had each other, but from the first evening playing games with the other children he was absolutely fine and a couple of days in couldn't wait to get there.

The couple has a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Santino and three children: two sons, CJ and Nicholas, and a beautiful daughter Ashlee with finance Peter Malleo, and first grandson Cameron Hendrix....

Some parents have to gently wake their children with a breast or bottle every 2 - 3 hours during the first couple weeks to make sure they eat, but otherwise babies will wake up when they're hungry.

When my second child showed signs of being ready, I needed a few more weeks to mentally be ready to be all - in for potty training and muster the patience I knew I'd need for those frustrating first couple of days.

If your child has reached his or her first birthday, the risk of SIDS decreases greatly, which means a couple of things.

For many couples, the build - up towards having their first child brings them together closer than ever before.

Our tour group was very small just two other couples, one was a set of first time parents and the other couple had five other children.

I was excited to be able to experience this magical first - feed bonding moment that had not been possible with my first two children (my 15 year old and 5 year old were born premature at 28 weeks and 32 weeks and breastfeeding was delayed a couple of weeks).

When I do a parenting plan with divorcing couples who have children, my first questions are about their goals and concerns regarding the divorce.

My husband and I wanted to throw in the towel a couple of times, but what other program has your child popping 2 times and urinating 9 on the first day of toilet training!

«I would like see more equality in terms of child care in the first couple of years of a child's life so that women don't necessarily fall far behind men when it comes to earning money and ultimately saving money for their older years,» Crowley said.

Another dirty little secret of parenting is that it might bring you closer during the first few weeks you bring your child home, but almost every couple is having some problems 6 - 18 months out.

In the rural areas of some provinces, a couple may have a second child only if their first is a girl.

other issues such as education and vaccination decisions had to be made, and, while at first the young couple followed the norm and the first two of their children started out in public school and fully vaccinated, it just didn't sit well with the parenting style they'd developed.

Explains why Lego (for example) has stood the test of time, and is one of the best commercial toys of all time (IMHO)... A popular gift I recall from our first child was a key chain with a couple large plastic keys in a box.

I would love to have this for my husband... we're expecting our first child in the next couple of weeks, and I know he's going to be such a great daddy!

After over 48 hours of contractions, I ended up getting an epidural and had my first child a couple hours later.

For the first year after baby arrives, couples of every age have sex one to two times per week on average (and that frequency is the same whether it's a couple's first or second child).

I'm only going to be breastfeeding for another couple of months, but I've only just had my first child, so there will be lots more breastfeeding / pumping in my future!

«All of the folks who have been anti-marriage equality have been professing to speak on behalf of our children, but up until the point where we filed our first brief, nobody had actually thought to ask children raised by same - sex couples what their experience had been.

When a couple decides they're ready to have a child, the first thing they'll want to find out is when the woman is ovulating.

While you may have both been okay with a lack of intimacy for the first couple of years of your child's life, this may soon become a challenging problem that's too difficult to overcome.

The incredible and unreal 24 hour experience of learning their first child would be born early, followed by a challenging birth that their daughter did not survive, and then spending seven perfect hours loving and cherishing each moment with their deceased newborn was life changing and upending in a way the couple could not have imagined.

I'm no expert, but in addition to the vast amount of research I did before my 2nd child (homebirth), my experience with an ob before I switched to a midwife with that same child, my experience with a medicated vaginal hospital birth w / my first child, my experience in talking to dozens of women that have had surgical births, in addition to all that anecdotal «wisdom», I have taken a graduate level Sociology of Medicine class that was an in depth look at our current medical system from a sociological perspective and we spent a couple of weeks talking about the medical model of birth and the alternatives.

This story has been corrected to show that Carey Gabay's wife was not pregnant with the couple's first child.

The report says that preimplantation genetic diagnosis should be allowed in cases where a couple want to have a child, but a pregnancy is likely to lead to a baby with a serious and incurable genetic disease, including those that first emerge in adulthood.

When reports that couples squeezed by the one - child policy were aborting female fetuses first trickled out of China in the early 1980s, it could hardly have been a surprise.

Stamets had recently married a woman with three kids of her own, and the couple's first child was on the way.

Some couples talked about their need to use a new sperm donor if the one they had used for their first child was no longer available.

A computer model can give couples an idea of when to start trying for their first child, based on their desired family size and whether they'd consider IVF