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Can You Afford to Go Back to Work After a Baby?
For years women have dealt with the struggle of being able afford to stay home after having a baby, but these days, times have somewhat changed. With the price of fuel and food rising every week, along with the other related cost increases, many women are now faced with the problem of being able to afford to go back to work. Though the time with your new baby has been magical, you may be one of the many women who are chomping at the bit to get back into the working world. Just as for women who are hoping to stay home, women who are considering a return to work have a lot that they need to consider.
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When Your Baby is Premature
Every woman goes into her pregnancy with her own mental image of what her perfect pregnancy experience will be. While the ideal scenario is different for every mother, each ends in the delivery of a happy, healthy, full-term baby. Sometimes, though, this is not the case. Complications can arise that might result in your baby being delivered before his due date. This can be a frightening time for a new parent or even someone who has been down this road before. However, knowing a little bit about what to expect when dealing with the premature birth of a baby can help to ease the worries and strain a bit.
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Ten Things Every New Mother Should Know
After nine months of waiting, you have just returned home from the hospital with your new baby. You’ve read all the books and think you know everything you need to know in order to take care of your baby perfectly. Then things start to happen that you never expected. Suddenly you wish that your new baby had come with a user’s manual or instruction booklet. Every mother deals with some unusual discoveries about parenting, but there are some common issues that come up pretty often. While everyone’s experience varies with their children, these are some answers straight from the mouths of real Mums.
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Toddler Tantrums: How to Silence the Monster!
Long before we were parents, every one of us watched an innocent mother attempt to reign in a toddler having a serious meltdown in a grocery store, restaurant or other public place. We all shook our heads in disgust, saying how we would never allow our own children to act that way in public and they certainly wouldn’t get the item or reward that they were throwing a holy fit over. Then, one day, we became parents and we were faced with our first public tantrum. All our promises of perfectly behaved children went right out the window and we handed our precious gems whatever they wanted just for the sake of shutting them up.
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Puerperal Psychosis: More than Just the ‘Baby Blues’
After the exhausting labour you have just been through, all you probably want to do now is curl up and sleep. Your body has just been through the most stressful experience it will probably ever have to go through and now you need peace and quiet and time to adjust to life with your new baby. Once you get home away from the hurly burly and noise of the hospital everything will be fine, won’t it?
Latest Pregnancy & Parenting Discussions
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problems with daughter
i know this is my first post but i got to internet and this forum to help me with this problem that i don’t share with one i know
Hi
I’m a mother of 3 girls 16 y.o, 14 y.o & 11 y.o.. i have many problems with my sweetie t Sara the youngest. Firstly she is little ashamed of her body. I heard little young men in her school calling fatty girl, camel toe, beef can, and things like that. I’m very sad for her. I talked with her a lot about her body and… -
update my foster child..
Ok as you may know from my other post S was supposed to be here for 6 weeks or so now it looks as if he will be here for a year..
His parents are worthless individuals.His father was still receiving the family allowence and promised to give S pocket money each month equal to the family allowence ... january was ok but this month , well his father has moved into a 4 bed house with his girlfriend and her two kids and setting up home costs money so guess who misses out?…
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Advice on returning to work after having a baby.
Hi all,
I’m wondering if anyone can help with my dilemma.I’m due to return to work in July after maternity leave and have applied for flexible working (3 days a week). According to the chat I had with my manager it doesn’t look like they are going accept my request. Although I know they have to provide me with a valid business reason, I’m sure they will come up with something to cover themselves.
Problem is, if I go back full time my partner and I really cant afford the childcare costs, which…
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bad behavour
I was appalled today. one of 3 couples who looked around our house in view to renting it had a baby and a young boy, the boy must have been about3years old.
Durring their time in the house the boy went through most of our kitchen cupboards even although the mother said not to a few times, he picked up a handful of gravel and threw it at our conservatory windows and spent the rest of the time trying to steel change out of a pot of money we have on the stairs(its not much, just loose pocket…
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Advise needed
Hiya - I am 11 weeks pregnant and have been diagonised with UTI .. urinary infection .. i am done with my treatment of antibiotics and I have had another urine test done . But I am still waiting for the results which will take another 7 - 10 days .
I am wondering if I am still having the infection and this would have an adverse affect on my unborn :(
Please help .. I know I ll have a sleepless night until I know I have not done any irreplacable damage to my unborn…