Baby carriers are truly the most important accessory and a vital part
of motherhood for me.
Don't get me wrong, I'm proud of my stretch marks and wouldn't trade a second
of motherhood for better abs, but I also prefer to avoid getting any more stripes!
A deep despair mars the first year
of motherhood for as many as one in five women.
As this website matures, so too will my advice as I experience the realm
of motherhood for myself and can give an even more personal insight into tips and tricks I find useful or irrelevant.
In the midst of all the day - to - day hustle and bustle, I have taken the blessing
of motherhood for granted, as so many other moms do.
Despite everything, you have a smile in your heart, and you are thankful for those moments because one thing you learned from heartbreak is to never take a second
of motherhood for granted.
Each day, for 31 days, adoptive mothers, birthmothers, mothers - to - be and adoptees shared their Mother's Day and Birthmother's Day stories in their own words and told how adoption has changed the meaning
of motherhood for them.
May 16: How Open Adoption Changed The Meaning
of Motherhood For Me Monica, a birthmother, explains why birthmothers and adoptive mothers have to fight against the stigmas about open adoption and how she and her daughter's adoptive mother have made their own own relationship work.
OK I jest, about breastfeeding at least (we're still happily doing it, nearly 17 months in, and it's been one of the most surprising and fulfilling elements
of motherhood for me).
I never took a moment
of motherhood for granted — not even now that she is a grumpy, moody Tween.
Not exact matches
Although it may seem difficult
for a three - time married man to profess to «family values,» Melania Trump already has gone out
of her way to follow in the footsteps
of women like Laura Bush and Michelle Obama who have prioritized
motherhood during their tenures.
«As tough as juggling the demands
of motherhood and being a Senator can be, I'm hardly alone or unique as a working parent, and my children only make me more committed to doing my job and standing up
for hardworking families everywhere.»
Even as her offspring grow and learn to fend
for themselves, the neurological changes
of motherhood persist... She is more efficient, making fewer errors.
Even though I was so happy
for her to embark on the amazing journey
of motherhood, I was totally freaked out about her impending absence.
His mom graduates high school as a salutatorian destined
for college but falls pregnant as a teenager and begins a life
of single -
motherhood and squandered opportunities.
Motherhood, lack
of management experience, and traditional socialization have all been cited as reasons
for delayed entry into entrepreneurial careers.
A new study
of HBS alumnae shows that female grads are leaving full - time work at surprising rates, sacrificing their careers
for motherhood.
The discussion touched on all the usual culprits
for the underrepresentation
of women in tech industry leadership roles: discrimination in the workplace, the «pipeline problem»
of too few girls studying math and science, the difficulty
of balancing
motherhood with the demands
of a startup.
But the ultimate result is that the very first stages
of motherhood are a bigger budgetary burden,
for worse results and in far more humble settings,
for everyday American families than they are
for literal princes and princesses.
It has worked with Merck and the White Ribbon Alliance
for Safe
Motherhood to allow women to use Gram Vaani's voiced - based platform to review the quality
of care they get from clinics.
For the U.S. government to negotiate a trade agreement manifestly to the advantage
of international business interests using the «
motherhood and apple pie» issue
of security and prevention
of terrorism is highly suspect.
The spokesperson
for the National Rifle Association has long used the logic
of motherhood in her defense
of guns.
John W. Campbell, the editor
of Analog (formerly Astounding) Science Fiction, once wrote an editorial remarkable
for the contrarian points he brought up (among other things, he came out against
motherhood and
for the man - eating shark).
In our historical freedom we are able to transcend that natural fact, and we certainly need not let it be determinative
for our understanding
of what
motherhood means.
Perhaps we can get at this sense
of motherhood as both nature and history by suggesting that a mother, though not «in her place,» should seek to «be place»
for her children.
The Mission
of Motherhood: Touching Your Child's Heart
for Eternity by Sally Clarkson.
The «rules»
for both personal responsibility and sacrifice on behalf
of the collective good conflate as marriage and
motherhood come into play.
Churches are usually pretty good about valuing
motherhood, but I think that sometimes the intense focus on that aspect
of what Christian womanhood means can lead to us devaluing a lot
of other amazing things that women can (and do) do
for God.
That is, John Paul never limited
motherhood to the physical but rather defined it as a woman's «readiness to be poured out
for the sake
of those who come within [her] range
of activity.
These were customarily cast in a kind
of «
motherhood» language that made them very hard
for nice people to resist.
For me, the dissonance
of this strange year is compounded by the fact that
motherhood turned my bleeding heart into a hemorrhage.
Some
of my friends are sympathetic to the pro-life movement's ideal
of a world where mother and child are both offered love and support, a world less subject to the cultural and economic forces that can make
motherhood unthinkable
for women in unplanned pregnancies.
She asked why that was the case, and they talked about the problems
of combining marriage,
motherhood, and training in medicine (which she had experienced personally), the resentment
of women that many doctors have, and the irony that a profession dedicated to caring
for people was so overwhelmingly composed
of men.
Short finds no evidence
of explicit complaints against the demands
of motherhood in the 18th century, nor any foreshadowing
of a call
for «reproductive rights».
Readers looking
for a nuanced discussion
of how the institution
of motherhood has been constructed and maintained should go to one
of the first two volumes.
Having devoted one month
of the project to exploring
motherhood — a topic
for which I rely heavily on interviews and time spent with actual mothers — I wanted to add a bit
of fun and humor to the chapter.
For Sarah, though stricken in years, was young enough to desire the pleasure
of motherhood, and Abraham, though gray - haired, was young enough to wish to be a father.
We push the littles on the swings while talking about the Rob Bell thing on Tuesday, we talk about the mission
of motherhood and sometimes it's nice to have someone that doesn't judge you
for being a big baby yourself.
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of values, capacity - building, women's rights, children's rights, reproductive rights, sexual orientation, safe abortion, safe
motherhood, enabling environment, equal access, life skills education, peer education, bodily integrity, internalisation, ownership, bestpractices, indicators
of progress, culturally sensitive approaches, secular spirituality, Youth Parliament, peace education, the rights
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I believe that when people espouse the values
of a mother or wife exclusively being a homemaker, they are longing
for a perceived simpler and easier time as opposed to truth, elevating a nostalgic look at
motherhood from the standpoint
of the post-war American dream
of the white, upper - middle - class rather than Scripture.
Even
for those women who enthusiastically embrace marriage and
motherhood... a substantial part
of their lives is without a husband and / or children... Furthermore, the traditional message to women is tenuous at best — all it takes is a single tragic phone call
for her to be dropped from that demographic.
Because we define sexuality through human dignity and ministry, we see beyond the family, the sign also
of a yet fuller ministry
of a fatherhood and a
motherhood, and a
motherhood defined in chastity
for Kingdom
of God's sake.
In terms
of her
motherhood in grace, Mary is the model
for each disciple who is called to bring Christ into the world.
The consistent theme among these authors is that they were unprepared
for the challenges
of pregnancy and
motherhood.
Mary's surrender at the foot
of the cross to a plan that could in no way have been part
of her own
for herself or
for her child figures as the centerpiece
of her proposal
of a Catholic feminism, which locates the foremost value
of women not in forms
of service to others (marriage,
motherhood) but in service to God, in the decision to surrender to his plan.
Perhaps it is society's low opinion
of teenage
motherhood that makes it such a miserable reality
for them.
The honest recounting
of friends prepared me
for the enormous uphill battles that came with the joys
of motherhood.
, replies: «The regulation
of births, which is an aspect
of responsible fatherhood and
motherhood, is objectively morally acceptable when it is pursued by the spouses without external pressure; when it is practised not out
of selfishness but
for seriousreasons; and with methods that conform to the objective criteria
of morality, that is, periodic continence and use
of the infertile periods» (no. 497).
Moreover, to fear and avoid a vocation to
motherhood, when that vocation is there, is an immense block to the fulfilment
of womanhood, and an immense impoverishment
for humanity.
She points out that the biggest losers in the sexual revolution have been poor women and children, and that decoupling sex from procreation has resulted in a casualness to sex and a devaluing
of motherhood that is bad
for us all.