Sentences with phrase «first child long»

She had her first child long before she even knew home births were a viable option and during the experience many decisions were made for her without her even being consulted.

This was the original 3 Series wagon, the famous origin - story of which holds that a BMW technician expecting his first child longed for the versatility of a wagon.

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As more women wait longer to have their first child, the number of women choosing to freeze their eggs has grown «exponentially,» said Dr. Alan Copperman, a fertility specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital.

For the first time in the United States, middle class, Caucasian children may not live as long as their parents.

If they indicate that their child is heading off to their first year of college, or they are taking a long awaited vacation, jot these things down on a calendar so you can ask how things went when you do a follow - up call.

«We can't expose our children to this any longer, not for another minute, let alone for four years,» the first lady told Clinton supporters at a rally in New Hampshire.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

First, it extends the logic of the redefinition of marriage which the earlier legislation on no - fault divorce required: Marriage is no longer a lifelong, monogamous bond between two people of the opposite sex intended for the raising of children and the provision of a stable family environment; rather, it is a relationship of mutual convenience, to be dissolved as and when it becomes inconvenient to the contracted parties to maintain it.

After giving birth to her first child, Jennifer Fulwiler began to question her long - held atheism.

In fact, as soon as the first child is concieved and born off our planet, it would be quite reasonable to say he wasn't even human any longer,

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

Not long after Pope Benedict was elected, he invited First Communion children to meet him in St Peter's Square.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

When I hold my first grandchild in my arms, I long to believe that she will grow up to have children of her own.

Children instinctively do whats wrong as it comes easy to them one of the first words ours picked up apart from mum and dad was no or mine and sibling rivalry got pretty hostile at times.With anything goes from biting scratching kicking we had 3 boys and a girl i thought the boys were much easier to keep in line as long as they had clear boundaries.Your a lucky man your children must have been angels i guess mine took after my side of the family so my wife keeps tellChildren instinctively do whats wrong as it comes easy to them one of the first words ours picked up apart from mum and dad was no or mine and sibling rivalry got pretty hostile at times.With anything goes from biting scratching kicking we had 3 boys and a girl i thought the boys were much easier to keep in line as long as they had clear boundaries.Your a lucky man your children must have been angels i guess mine took after my side of the family so my wife keeps tellchildren must have been angels i guess mine took after my side of the family so my wife keeps telling me..

To understand why Thomas now spends his Saturdays at a Kansas City library reading to children — one of many activities sponsored by his Third and Long foundation — you have to go back to his first meeting with Williams at Palmetto Junior High.

Clyde Walker, her teacher at the Houghton Park public courts in Long Beach, thought teaching would help her game, so one afternoon she gave her first lesson to a group of younger children.

Likewise you have no more rights as a long term supporter than a young child going to their first match.

Driussi first joined River's legendary youth system when he was just nine years old, and not long after, having shown he was a level above his peers in the children's divisions, his family received an offer too good to turn down from the club.

Lifted, Supercharged Chevy Suburban While a high performance, high capacity offroad vehicle may at first seem incongruent with caring for babies, in reality it represents a long term commitment to your child's welfare.

First, because most employees in the US are «at will», meaning, we can be fired at any time for any reason long as it's not discriminatory, we work long hours, are afraid of taking time away from work longer than a week, and certainly not for child care purposes.

Touted as the first of their kind, the guidelines, however, largely mirror best practice recommendations that MomsTEAM Institute has long advocated that independent sports programs adopt as part of a holistic approach to safety using a process spelled out in the International Safeguards for Children of Sports, which MTI played a part in developing as part of a 38 - member global coalition of sports safety NGO's, and that is embodied in its SmartTeams program.

They showed that the first signs of delinquency often appear in children as young as three — long before children come into contact with influences outside the home.

Oh, I don't mean that my kids were doing that — that is what's been on the news as we followed former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's announcement of a love child with his long - time housekeeper, the revelations that former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss - Kahn allegedly sexually assaulted a hotel maid, and that former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner had been engaging in social media hanky - panky with a bunch of young hotties on Facebook and Twitter but not without lying about it first for 10 days before resigning.

She then went on to get her teaching credential from California State University Long Beach and taught first grade for many years before deciding to stay home with her own children.

HTGC is the first step on a long journey toward being fully accessible to dads, and we're the first children's centre in Bradford to do it, so we feel as if we're leading the way.»

• Where mothers had been depressed AND the fathers had worked long hours (particularly at weekends) in the first two years of their baby's life, this predicted poor developmental outcomes for their child through to age 10, especially among boys (Letourneau et al, 2009).

I don't care how long I've had a pet, my husband and children will ALWAYS come first.

Volcanoes are a fantastic first science experiment for children, and definitely one they will remember for a long time.

Delighting children since 1949, The Big Snow depicts how animals prepare for a long and cold winter and their delight when the first flakes hit the ground.

Some statisticians believe that the decrease in teen pregnancies is largely responsible for the increase in the average age in women having their first child but the bottom line is that women really do seem to be waiting longer.

I have read Jeannette LaBlanc's website «Crunchy» for long before she had her first child (who has to be at least 7) and is certainly one of the earlier and most famed attachment parenting mommy bloggers.

I think the reason for dropping the dreamfeed first is so your child can have long, continuous uninterrupted sleep at night.

The main disadvantage of waiting this long is that it is almost like having a first child all over again.

When your child deals with her teachers in school or gets her first job and has these skills to fall back on, it will really go a long way.

This first - ever large and long - term study of hormonal changes related to fatherhood showed that men who take care of their children have lower testosterone levels.

Most parents choose to have their second child within five years of the first, but there are some good things about waiting longer.

Although you might feel a little bit sad at first to know that your child is growing up and will one day no longer be breastfeeding regularly, don't worry.

Being a new mom with my first child I was (I think now) almost obsessed with checking how many hours it was between the nighttime feedings and how long they took.

My OB, first time I've had one but she's delivered with midwives for her two children and is very in - tuned to natural childbirth, recommended not waiting too long since we are now living over 7000 feet and it does seem to increase the risk of jaundice.

Becci Barker, East Morton, Keighley, West Yorkshire, UK Photo: At First Sight Two different experiences of induced birth When I fell pregnant with my second child I was overjoyed, but at the back of my mind lurked the worry that I might have to endure another long and traumatic labor.

First child, laboured at home for as long as possible, birthing ball, birthing pool, moved body according to instinct, natural high

I'd agonized for a long time about child spacing, and was worried about how Sol (my first born) would handle the addition to the family.

I know we all have the things that other moms seem to comment on first — usually having to do with our children's appearance: «Her hair is so pretty,» «His eyelashes are so long,» etc. — which is fine, I get it, I do it too.

Babies usually take their first steps sometime between 9 and 12 months, but it's okay if your child takes a little longer.

I was pretty much sold on the school when I first learned that parents are allowed and encouraged to stay as long as children need them to.

You'll see - how some researchers in Britain are questioning if «breast only» is best for the first six months, - who children pick up their smoking habits from, - how long contaminants in breastmilk stick around, - how sharing childcare duties may increase parental conflict (huh?)

BF was long, distressing, and my child was losing weight, but apparently latch was ok and milk was ok — neither seemed ok to me, nor did my child, she was losing weight for no reason well over and above expected loss in the first few days, and they kept us in 10 days (checking for maternal competence as a reason for my child doing so poorly, and doing tests to see if there was some illness making her so poorly) only to release us with her still not stablised with a referral to a lactation consultant.

The breast is fine for the first 2 or 3 weeks but after that the child is on literally all day long.

There is not right or wrong with choices about breastfeeding as long as the best interest of the child is put first.