Sentences with phrase «positives about being a mother»

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Although there is ample evidence that married mothers and fathers play an irreplaceable role in the lives of their children, the positive message about marriage was not — and still is not — being told to those who need to hear it most.

Additional resources: Gentle Christian Mothers Best Anti-Spanking Resources (it's worth repeating down here) From API Speaks, there are several post about how to Practice Positive Discipline From the American Academy of Pediatrics: What is the best way to discipline my child?

Mothers who have graduated from the programme are very positive about their parenting capability, reporting high levels of warm parenting, low levels of harsh discipline and levels of parenting stress similar to that in the normal population

Because the overnighting infants tried to get their mother's attention and gazed at her more often — which on the actual test is a positive sign of readiness to learn language — the study's authors concluded that the overnighting infants were more watchful and wary about their mother's whereabouts, indicating more anxiety and insecurity.

Outcomes relating to child (ren): has desired level of access to child (ren) and contact with mother; considers himself part of a family unit; has a positive relationship with child (ren); is involved in decisions about child (ren); can provide financial support for child (ren); has involvement in child (ren)'s future; is a positive role model for child (ren)

I am thrilled about having the opportunity to support mothers and to help them have a positive birth experience.

The mother is just now learning about positive discipline and wanting to implement new tools in responding to her child.

My Intended Mother loved to tell everyone how positive I was that this was going to work, even asking her about baby names and how she would decorate the nursery.

Healthy Babies, Happy Moms Inc. is passionate about having a positive impact on the health of babies and the well being of their mothers.

Mothers are amazed to hear about the many remarkable qualities of human milk, their bodies fantastic ability to produce milk as well as the positive impact breastfeeding has on families, the environment, and society.

While these reported interventions target the infant, other interventions target the mother - infant interaction48 or the whole family (rather just the mother) 49,50 to improve parental skills by providing practical parental care techniques (such as sleeping habits and feeding) in combination with psychoeducation about the postpartum period and mindfulness techniques.48 This set of studies have shown positive results such that maternal depression, anxiety scores48 and baby crying times, 48,50 were reduced.

In Kikki.K, I got this fab Words of Wisdom book, which is filled with inspirational quotes about being a woman and being a mother — my mum is one of the most positive people I know, and loves a pick - me - up quote, so I know she will love this.

Society may still be slightly more inclined to give out medals to women who achieve a DIY vaginal delivery while making disparaging comments about women who are «too posh to push,» but the fact remains that if a baby is born healthy and a woman has had a positive birth experience, the prospect for their future health and relationship is equally good, and for most mothers, that's all that really matters in the end.

Existing evidence does not suggest that concerns about the impact of breastfeeding on an HIV - positive mother's health should be the basis for the infant feeding decision.

In the absence of breastfeeding promotion, there is a danger that information about HIV transmission during breastfeeding will result in inappropriate discontinuation of breastfeeding among both HIV - positive mothers and uninfected mothers who do not know their status.

Practice Update: HIV and breastfeeding - Morrison P. - Essentially MIDIRS, August 2014; 5 (7): 38 - 9, available at page 38 HIV and breastfeeding: the unfolding evidence - Morrison P and Faulkner Z - Essentially MIDIRS, Dec / Jan 2015; 5 (11): 7 - 13, Breastfeeding for HIV - Positive Mothers - Morrison P - Breastfeeding Today, 1 November 2014; 26:20 - 25 What HIV - positive women want to know about breastfeeding - Morrison P - World AIDS Day 2013 issue of Fresh Start, Trinidad & Tobago, 1 December 2013 (see pages 8 - 12) Informed choice in infant feeding decisions can be supported for HIV - infected women even in industrialized countries - Morrison P, Greiner T, Israel - Ballard K - AIDS 2011, 24 September 2011, PMID: 21811145 Letter to the Editor (2014)- Pamela Morrison & Ted Greiner - Health Care for Women International, 35:10, 1109 - 1112, DOI: 10.1080 / 07399332.2014.954705 Conquering Fear and Stigma with Knowledge: HIV - Positive Mothers and Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breast stiPositive Mothers - Morrison P - Breastfeeding Today, 1 November 2014; 26:20 - 25 What HIV - positive women want to know about breastfeeding - Morrison P - World AIDS Day 2013 issue of Fresh Start, Trinidad & Tobago, 1 December 2013 (see pages 8 - 12) Informed choice in infant feeding decisions can be supported for HIV - infected women even in industrialized countries - Morrison P, Greiner T, Israel - Ballard K - AIDS 2011, 24 September 2011, PMID: 21811145 Letter to the Editor (2014)- Pamela Morrison & Ted Greiner - Health Care for Women International, 35:10, 1109 - 1112, DOI: 10.1080 / 07399332.2014.954705 Conquering Fear and Stigma with Knowledge: HIV - Positive Mothers and Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breast stipositive women want to know about breastfeeding - Morrison P - World AIDS Day 2013 issue of Fresh Start, Trinidad & Tobago, 1 December 2013 (see pages 8 - 12) Informed choice in infant feeding decisions can be supported for HIV - infected women even in industrialized countries - Morrison P, Greiner T, Israel - Ballard K - AIDS 2011, 24 September 2011, PMID: 21811145 Letter to the Editor (2014)- Pamela Morrison & Ted Greiner - Health Care for Women International, 35:10, 1109 - 1112, DOI: 10.1080 / 07399332.2014.954705 Conquering Fear and Stigma with Knowledge: HIV - Positive Mothers and Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breast stiPositive Mothers and Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breast still best?

Please be positive and respectful of each mother's choice in diapering, the same as you would to each mother's choice to breast or bottle feed, or to have a natural birth or medicated birth, family bed or crib... There are lots of sites on the internet, not just this one, that go into great detail about elimination communication, as well as many support groups which provide tips and encouragement to moms who want to take their relationship with their baby to this new level.

Mothers or fathers who are seeking to grow as individuals so they can feel more positive about their parenting role

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

The author makes strong statements about the risks of breastfeeding if a mother is HIV positive which are not supported by current research since there are many unknown factors involved in maternal - infant transmission of HIV.

As a nursing mother I am greatful to you for speeking out in a positive way about breastfeeding.

What do we know about continued breastfeeding - should it be among the infant feeding options for HIV positive mothers?

The book review in The Journal of the American Medical Association, about as establishment a journal as you can find, was so positive I'm convinced my mother wrote it.

While we can't do much about our mothers» diets while they were pregnant, balancing gut bacteria now and consuming enough beneficial bacteria can have a positive effect on allergies now.

I looked up to my mother because she was always so positive about herself.

Despite all of these positive aspects, Sam is somewhat hesitant about going, because the couple will be using his mother's house, and Sam doesn't get along very well with his mom.

Participants thought the following should be offered to maternal drug users throughout their pregnancy: knowledge about services, accessible services, counselling, relapse prevention, support to stop drug use, positive reinforcement, compassion and understanding and information about the impact of drug use on infants, and the impact of substance use on mothering (e.g. information on breastfeeding while taking methadone).

This is not a «positive effect of fatherhood,» and is meaningless in that regard without adding first the unwarranted assumption that there is something important about the father being the child's role model, rather than his mother, a beloved uncle, or someone else.

For low - income families headed by single mothers, the associations between maternal employment and children's cognitive and social development tend to be neutral or positive, but much of this difference is a function of pre-existing differences between mothers who are or are not employed.2, 3,4,5 The effects of maternal employment on children's development also depend on the characteristics of employment — its quality, extent and timing — and on the child's age.2, 6,7 On the other hand, poverty has consistently negative associations with young children's development, but here, too, there is considerable controversy about the causal role of income per se, as opposed to other correlates of poverty.8, 9,10,11,12,13

In one seminal (no pun intended) study, raters were more likely to correctly match pictures of infants with biological fathers than biological mothers (i.e., babies looked more like dad than mom); 4 however, this finding has not been replicated by subsequent research.5, 6 Interestingly, dads who think their kids look like them tend to have more positive relationships with those children.7 It makes sense that mothers (and mothers» relatives) are more likely to say that a baby looks like the father, possibly as a form of reassuring the father of his paternity.8 Although, to be fair, there is just something about a bald chubby baby that looks more «dad - like» than «mom - like.»

Other comments included: «very positive about the outcome and looking forward to the years with my daughter», «confident that my mom and I can have more serious conversations», a newfound sense of hope for open communication», «got to bond with my mother», «the Keynote Speaker was amazing», «inspired with a sense of clarity.»

In reminiscing about positive events, mothers are focused on creating a shared history that maintains emotional bonds, and therefore telling a story such that mother and child will have a shared understanding of what occurred may be critical.

Overall, mothers who are elaborative when reminiscing about emotionally positive events are also elaborative when reminiscing about highly negative experiences, such as accidents and injuries requiring emergency room treatment, or natural disasters (Ackil, Van Abbema, & Bauer, 2003; Sales, Fivush, & Peterson, 2003).

The positive aspects of collaborative divorce can be unraveled quickly when children witness their mother and father speaking harshly about one another, even if the conversation isn't directed at the children.

Most birthmothers reported feeling positive or very positive about their relationship with the child's adoptive mother and father and were satisfied or very satisfied with these relationships.

When you talk about their mother, be positive or don't say anything at all.

16 Parental knowledge is thought to provide a global cognitive organization for adapting to or anticipating developmental changes in children.17 Mothers who are knowledgeable respond more sensitively to their child's initiations, 18 while mothers with inaccurate expectations about their child's development tend to be more harsh.19, 20,21 Studies have indicated that when mothers have higher knowledge of infant and child development, they show higher levels of parenting skills, 16,22,23 their children have higher cognitive skills, 16,24 and there are fewer child behaviour problems.16 Furthermore, a positive association has been found between parental self - efficacy and parenting competence when knowledge of child development iMothers who are knowledgeable respond more sensitively to their child's initiations, 18 while mothers with inaccurate expectations about their child's development tend to be more harsh.19, 20,21 Studies have indicated that when mothers have higher knowledge of infant and child development, they show higher levels of parenting skills, 16,22,23 their children have higher cognitive skills, 16,24 and there are fewer child behaviour problems.16 Furthermore, a positive association has been found between parental self - efficacy and parenting competence when knowledge of child development imothers with inaccurate expectations about their child's development tend to be more harsh.19, 20,21 Studies have indicated that when mothers have higher knowledge of infant and child development, they show higher levels of parenting skills, 16,22,23 their children have higher cognitive skills, 16,24 and there are fewer child behaviour problems.16 Furthermore, a positive association has been found between parental self - efficacy and parenting competence when knowledge of child development imothers have higher knowledge of infant and child development, they show higher levels of parenting skills, 16,22,23 their children have higher cognitive skills, 16,24 and there are fewer child behaviour problems.16 Furthermore, a positive association has been found between parental self - efficacy and parenting competence when knowledge of child development is high.

The authors focused on global, overarching codes of mother — child interaction behavior (e.g., negative vs. positive); therefore, it could not provide information about specific mother — child interaction behaviors that may be most indicative of depressive mothers» parenting and may have direct implications for prevention and intervention efforts.

Mothers of children with ASD are less satisfied with marriage and less positive about their family's adjustment to taking care of the child than mothers of children with Down syndrome and typically developing children, while no such differences in the case of fathers of children with autism were found [Mothers of children with ASD are less satisfied with marriage and less positive about their family's adjustment to taking care of the child than mothers of children with Down syndrome and typically developing children, while no such differences in the case of fathers of children with autism were found [mothers of children with Down syndrome and typically developing children, while no such differences in the case of fathers of children with autism were found [35,36].