There are many things that are the same all over the world in the week after a woman has given birth. If both mom and her baby are healthy after delivery, then they will be adjusting to the new phase ...
Autism or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex, lifelong neurodevelopmental condition that affects a person's ability to communicate and engage in social interaction. Just as no two people with...
It may be a surprise for many women to learn that there is no such thing, medically speaking, as an overdue baby. When a woman reaches 41 weeks, she has a late-term pregnancy, and when she reaches 42 ...
If parents are struggling to find just the right name for their little one, it can sometimes help to make random decisions about the number of syllables or the number of letters in their name. This ca...
When The Little Mermaid was released in 1989, it was, in many ways a movie ahead of its time. The first big step on Disney’s road back to world domination, “The Little Mermaid” used traditional animat...
Choosing what to call one's baby is rarely easy. Unless by some miracle a woman and her partner are both in love with one specific name, chances are they’ll be bouncing ideas back and forth for months...
As soon as a woman discovers that she's pregnant, it begins. Suddenly she's always waiting for the next sign, the next step, the next milestone. In some ways she should try to avoid the “when is X goi...
Parenting is probably the most difficult, but rewarding, job in the world and will most likely be the most significant thing you ever do. Physically, emotionally, mentally, and financially, having a b...
Across the pond, in Europe, the word, which had evolved from the old Scottish/German word geck meaning "idiot" was still only used in its original form, as an insult. Then the word slowly fell out of ...
There is often an assumption, among modern parents, that the parenting advice of the past no longer applies today. It is easy to look back at times like the 1950s and think that the moms and dads were...
Maybe it is an awkwardly posed holiday picture where it is obvious nobody wants to be there, or maybe one of those candid shots where someone's true feelings are caught as they fleetingly cross their ...
Joseph Stalin was the director of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 until his death in 1953. Stalin had played a critical role in the Russian Revolution, working closely with Le...
Maternity clothes. Love them or hate them they are a staple of most women's pregnancies. The problem with maternity clothes is that they always seem so expensive for an item you might only wear for a ...
It is a frequent problem for parents trying to choose the right name for their child, do you like the nicknames that may go with your choice? It is easy to say you will never shorten the name but once...
Motherhood. Some would say that it has changed dramatically from years past, others would claim it has only changed a little, but in some ways, it is exactly the same as it has been for millennia.
For some people, choosing a name for their child can be a complicated process, fraught with stress, on a par with trying to tiptoe through a minefield of family thoughts and feelings while blindfolded...
It is that time of year again. Where parents suddenly decide that the perfect way to celebrate the season would be to dress up their child in their most festive outfit and take them to visit Santa. Ma...
Thanks to movies, music and other forms of popular culture, some Irish baby names are no longer immediately thought of as Irish. Most of us know of someone called Liam, Sean, Shannon, or Bridget and w...