Sentences with phrase «wondering about birth parents»

Many adult adoptees have spent a lifetime wondering about their birth parents: their appearance and personality traits, their reasons for choosing adoption, and how their lives turned out.

Insights to how to respond when your child begins wondering about birth parents.

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She is also the author of Mommy Calls, Dr. Tanya Answers Parents» Top 101 Questions About Babies and Toddlers, Editor - in - Chief of the American Academy of Pediatrics» best - selling parenting book, Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 and The Wonder Years.

Colic, crying, round - the - clock wakings — is it any wonder that parents experience high rates of depression in the first year after the birth of a child?A study of British parents in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has found that more than one - third of mothers and about one - fifth of fathers seem to have weathered depression sometime between becoming parents and their children's 12th birthday, with the most episodes occurring in the first year after birth.

One evening, while chastising myself for slacking off on this important parenting / birth activist / blogger task, I got to wondering about birth stories as a social phenomenon: Why do (some) women write their birth stories?

Each time we wondered about why the agency's practices operated a certain way, the answer always came back to what was best for the child, first and foremost, and also what would be most supportive of the birth parents.