Thank you to Acts Retirement-Life Communities for sponsoring the following post. All opinions are my own. My mom and I are quite close. Not only does she live just blocks away from my family and me, but she also spends a lot of time with my kids and me. No matter how old I get, […] More
Women who give birth to four or more children are more likely to have cardiovascular changes that can be early indicators of heart disease than women who have fewer children, new research by UT Southwestern Medical Center cardiologists finds. Cardiologist Dr. Monika Sanghavi, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, found that women who give birth to […] More
Maternal age significantly affects the risk of birth defects and genetic disorders such as Down syndrome, with older mothers having a higher risk of children born with chromosome abnormalities. Now a new study published in the journal Nature Communications offers better understanding into the mechanism behind the increased risk. Disorders like Down syndrome occur as […] More
Age 35 has long been considered the magic number for safely having babies. However, a new study by researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden suggests that the “risk zone” for pregnancy begins even younger, at age 30. As published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, the study discovered that pregnancy and birth complications […] More
After a child is born, it is often the mom who wakes up in the middle of the night to care for that child. Consequently it is also often the mother who is lacking the most sleep. Now a study from scientists at Duke University claims that moms, and women in general, need more sleep […] More
Want to avoid Alzheimer’s disease later in life? Try breastfeeding your children for as long as possible. A new study of British mothers has found that breastfeeding moms reduce their risk of Alzheimer’s by two-thirds. The study conducted by researchers at Cambridge University found that, the longer a mother breastfeeds, the lower her chances of […] More
Mama is often one of the first words that a baby will learn to speak. Until your baby can stalk, however, you can teach your baby the sign for the words mother, mom, mommy, and mama in baby sign language with the following description and video. The sign is identical in American Sign Language for all […] More
Immediately after my daughter was born and placed in my arms, I instinctively kissed her on her little forehead. As I sat on my bathroom floor with my husband behind me, I bent my face close to hers and kissed her tiny little face right under her mop of dark hair. I breathed my baby in and […] More
