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Depression, Substance Abuse Linger After Pregnancy - HealthDayNews
Women who binge drink, get depressed or smoke during their pregnancy boost their risk for depression and alcohol use after they give birth as well, a new study shows.

Speech and language development milestone - Are your child's speech and language skills developing normally? While every child is unique, the following timetable compiled from information provided by the American Speech Language Hearing Association (www.asha.org) and the Center for Speech, Language and Occupational Therapy, Inc (www.cslot.com) offers a rough guideline of what to expect.

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Managing Your Energy After Childbirth - The Post-Pregnancy Handbook: The Only Book that Tells What the First Year After Childbirth is Really All About -- Physically, Emotionally, Sexually - by Sylvia Brown
Unfortunately, fatigue is part of the postnatal period. Although sleep deprivation is almost inevitable, utter exhaustion is avoidable. Here are a few tips and recommendations on how to manage your energy levels in the weeks and months after childbirth.

While some mothers feel “back on their feet” after just a few days home from the hospital, medical studies show that fatigue generally reaches its peak two to four days after you return home. Many women also go through a slump between the eighth and tenth week after childbirth when the accumulated lack of sleep really begins to cause damage. Only 50 percent of women feel that they have regained their usual energy levels within six weeks postpartum. Twenty-five percent more feel that they are back to normal only after six months. This means that a quarter of new mothers are still suffering from fatigue and low energy more than six months after childbirth. But then, remember also that two-thirds of babies aged six to twelve months, and a third of toddlers have trouble sleeping through the night….

Rules of Thumb for Choosing a Baby Name - By Laura Wattenberg - From Aaliyah to Zvi, the range of name choices is dazzling. If you're a sleepless parent-to-be, it can look like a vast landscape with no roadmap. To make sure you keep your bearings, here are some basic principles for understanding names -- and finding that one perfect name that speaks to your heart.
 

Tips for New Moms - twice monthly advice from our contributor Amy Allen Clark at www.MomAdvice.com - Tips for a new mom to things that matter to all Single Mothers. 

Cloth Diapering 101 - By Amy Allen Clark - If you think of diaper pins and plastic pants, when you think of cloth diapering, you have not seen the cloth diapers for today’s mom. Cloth diapers are a far cry from this image, and cloth diapering is definitely something to explore when you are a frugal mother. The days of origami, accidentally sticking your child with pins, and sloshing diapers in the toilet to rinse them are the diapering days of our mothers. I am here to tell you that cloth diapering is easy, affordable, and is worth every moment of your time and dollar investment. You will not believe how easy it is or how rewarding the process of cloth diapering is- both financially and environmentally.

What is postpartum depression? - by Amanda Bach - Postpartum depression is a treatable medical illness characterized by feelings of sadness, indifference, blue, unhappy, miserable, or down in the dumps, exhaustion and anxiety following the birth of your baby. Most of us feel this way at one time or another for short periods. But true clinical depression is a mood disorder in which feelings of sadness, loss, anger, or frustration interfere with everyday life for an extended time. Depression can be mild, moderate, or severe. The degree of depression, which your doctor can determine, influences how you are treated.

Surviving Colic, and all the advice comes with it - by Cecily Harrison Single, with eggs that weren’t getting any younger, I decided it was now or never to have a child and plunked down real cash to get my wish. I had waited so long, I wanted the entire experience of motherhood to be instinctive, natural.  I pictured my little angel smiling sweetly when she wanted to nurse, and afterwards, drifting to sleep in her Moses basket as I floated from one bohemian setting to another. “Women have been doing this for thousands of years,” I kept repeating, and each time someone with children suggested being a parent was the hardest job around, I’d say, “Bring it on.” Then somewhere around five weeks, all hell broke loose.  My sweet little lamb with the heart-shaped mouth started crying.  And crying.  She cried each time I put her down.  She cried when she nursed, tormented by gas.  “Colic,” said the pediatrician, and prescribed Mylicon ‘round the clock. 

Diaper Bag Essentials - By Amy Allen Clark - There was a time in my life when I could hop in the car, carrying only a purse, and head out the door with absolutely no planning. Ah, those were the days! Upon having our son though, I realized that any trip out the door had to be a well-executed one and it often took hours just to get ready for our destination. As he has gotten older, I can now stash the essential items he needs conveniently in my gigantic mommy purse, but those days of enormous diaper bags are definitely not far from my memory. Here is a list of my own essential diaper bag items….
 

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