The benefits of touch for babies, parents (Stanford University)
(Source: Stanford University) SEPT. 23, 2013 BY JULIE GREICIUS iStockphoto Skin-to-skin time in the first hour after birth helps regulate the babies' temperature, heart rate, and breathing, and helps...
View ArticlePaid Family Leave: The Mother’s Day Gift Moms Really Need (HRW - Human Rights...
(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) What's the best Mother's Day gift New York state lawmakers could give? Paid family leave, guaranteed under state law. Julia, a mom in Ithaca, adopted a baby born four...
View ArticleAttachment Parenting Dropout
I'm a crunchy person up to a point. I trek to the farmers' market every weekend to fill up my recycled-plastic shopping bags with avocados and organic strawberries, but I've never made my own reusable...
View Article9 things that surprised me about being a new parent
See Also When my husband and I decided to have a baby, we knew that we were entering into the unknown. But we still thought we had some idea of what to expect. Turns out we were wrong about a lot of...
View ArticleWhy I don’t breastfeed – if you must know
For some women, ‘breast is best’ is painful, miserable - or simply not possible ...
View ArticleIt's OK to Hate the Newborn Stage
It was a sunglasses kind of day. Every morning since I had started strolling with my newborn, I made the decision whether or not to wear sunglasses without looking at the weather report. Instead, I...
View ArticleEven Royal Parents Face Challenges
Share 0 Prince William and Kate Middleton may be royals, but as new parents, they're in for sleepless nights, messy diapers and the fear that they'll somehow break their baby. But, like new parents...
View ArticleCelebrity Baby Scoop: Exclusive interview with new parents Jenn Brown and Wes...
New parents Jenn Brown and Wes Chatham welcomed their first child, son Nash, in November 2014. Although their baby boy was due at the end of December, Nash had other plans, the “America Ninja Warrior”...
View ArticleWhy I celebrate Mother’s Day
Imagine that celebrating Mother’s Day required giving an acceptance speech as in Hollywood award ceremonies. Last year, I would have been the self-obsessed ‘It girl’, speaking solely about how the...
View ArticleDads Watching Their Own Kids Are Not 'Babysitting'
With Father's Day around the corner, I have a pet peeve to share with all of you, and I think it is something that is somewhat common in our language about dads that we need to change. Nine times out...
View ArticleHow One Photographer's Journey To 'Normalize Breastfeeding' Was Inspired By...
When Vanessa Simmons had her first baby seven years ago, the experience, she said, was "amazing." The 32-year-old Ghanian-American photographer had the vaginal, unmedicated delivery she had hoped and...
View Article10 controversial parenting methods (and what's not so bad about them)
You bring baby home and it seems like everyone has an opinion on which techniques you should use to get her to sleep, to feed her and to help her learn and develop. And they tell you which ones not to...
View ArticleMore dads want paid paternity leave
Washington - Marc Carlson, a senior manager at Ernst & Young in Detroit, took two weeks of the company’s standard paid parental leave for dads when his daughter, Rebecca, was born last year. Then,...
View ArticleParenting, What's the Rush?
When we have our first baby there is anticipation, excitement and hopefully joy. But, there is another side to it. No matter how prepared we believe we are, nothing truly prepares you for the change...
View ArticleSupporting the Rise of the Engaged Father
As I walked past security at the airport towards our gate, carrying my baby and two bags, the security guard directed me to the escalator. There I clumsily loaded my bags and baby and off we went. It...
View ArticleWorst vacation ever
Every now and then, I hear comments likening maternity or paternity leave to “vacation.” You might assume these comments are made exclusively by men, but not so! Especially during my time working in...
View ArticleBalancing Act: Coaching can help parents-to-be ease transition at work, home
For the month of March, Johnathan Modisett, a senior manager at Ernst & Young, changed diapers and spoon-fed his newborn daughter. When the baby napped, Modisett checked his work email, not...
View ArticleWhen your child is more attached to the nanny
YOUNG children sometimes refer to their babysitters as 'mama' or will cry for the sitter even while in their mother's arms. It doesn't bother some parents, but it can, understandably, cause feelings of...
View ArticlePaternal postpartum depression: the daddy blues
Prince William announces “I did the first nappy…” and “I had every midwife staring at me.” It must be intimidating enough to change the nappy (British word for “diaper”), but even more nerve-racking to...
View ArticleWhy I want my son to play with dolls
Shortly after the birth of my third child, I was walking through Washington, D.C. My wife and I were pushing our newborn in a stroller. My 2-year-old daughter was pushing her baby doll in a stroller....
View ArticleMy Breast Isn't Best
I was a swimmer growing up. When I wasn't in a racing suit at the elementary school pool, I wore a cute one in my grandparents' backyard, but covered it up with a thick, oversized cotton t-shirt. I was...
View ArticleCoaching can help parents-to-be ease transition at work, home
For the month of March, Johnathan Modisett, a senior manager at Ernst & Young, changed diapers and spoon-fed his newborn daughter. When the baby napped, Modisett checked his work email, not...
View ArticleMothers and fathers now have the legal right to share parental leave - but...
History is being made today with the introduction of new laws allowing working fathers and mothers to share 12 months of time off after their child is born. But only a tiny number of parents are...
View Article>9 Things That Surprised Me About Being A New Parent
When my husband and I decided to have a baby, we knew that we were entering into the unknown. But we still thought we had some idea of what to expect. Turns out we were wrong about a lot of things....
View ArticleThe Parenting Club, Daddy Privilege and Mommy Martyrdom
Your parenting club membership comes with an invisible package of privileges that we all are guilty of using at times: "Oh, I wish we could, but little Sarah has a thing that weekend. This parenting...
View Article6 Tips for Dealing With Your Partner Returning to Work After Baby
Written by Nicole Fabian-Weber on CafeMom's blog, The Stir. For those planning on going back to work after having a baby, the low-grade stress of maternity leave ending sets in almost immediately after...
View ArticleMore fathers taking family medical leave
When Iain Moyer's daughter, Sophia, came into this world, he did something more and more men are starting to do — he took paternity leave. After the 12 weeks his wife Nicole took from her job, Moyer...
View ArticleYou're So Lucky: The Parenting Double Standard
I have a fairly modern marriage. My husband cooks, cleans and does laundry. I do, well, a little bit too. Under duress. By far the most traditional thing I've done, in addition to getting married, is...
View ArticlePaternal instinct
AS a new father, Chris Marsden was literally saved by the school bell. If Tasimba hadn't been born in the holidays, the secondary school teacher would have been unable to spend the critical time...
View ArticleHow to Stop Resenting Your Spouse After Having a Baby
Here's a scene that played out nightly during my first months of motherhood: My photographer husband returns home from a shoot, smelling of high-end catering and excitement. I greet him at the door,...
View Article16 Dads, 16 Different Paternity Leaves
I asked a group of fathers to share the stories of their paternity leaves (or lack thereof). A few had very supportive employers with generous policies, some had nightmare situations that led to them...
View ArticleImpossible Decisions: Choosing Between the Job We Need and the Family We Love
By Jennifer Shiao Page Last year, I made a career change and I'm now working for the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. But prior to that I had an 18-year career in the consumer products industry....
View ArticleBabies and Benefits: How Countries Around the World Support New Moms
The Duchess of Cambridge's trendsetting ways may be rubbing off on her husband. This week, Prince William became the first royal to indulge in a modern British luxury -- paternity leave. Like fathers...
View ArticleWhy I want my son, and all boys, to play with dolls
Shortly after the birth of my third child, I was walking through Washington, D.C. My wife and I were pushing our newborn in a stroller. My two-year-old daughter was pushing her baby doll in a stroller....
View Article4 Ways My 'Paternity Leave' Shaped Me As a Father and Strengthened My Family
I didn't exactly take a paternity leave. I'm a college professor and my son, Nick, was born three days after my last final exam of the Spring semester. Perfect timing (although we didn't actually plan...
View ArticleHere's Why Family Leave Is A Huge Deal For New Parents
The average age at which working Americans now expect to retire is 66. Assuming many of them start working in their late teens or early 20s, that means men and women in this country are spending...
View ArticlePaternity Leave: The Rewards and the Remaining Stigma (Rutgers University,...
(Source: Rutgers University, New Brunswick) Five months after Todd Bedrick's daughter was born, he took some time off from his job as an accountant. The company he works for, Ernst & Young, offered...
View Article8 New-Baby Costs These Parents Didn't See Coming
Flickr / eyeliam For such tiny people, babies sure do have the potential to rack up huge bills. But it isn't just top-of-the-line nursery furniture and dozens of teensy polka-dotted socks that make...
View ArticleParental Leave Is A Huge Deal For Dads. Just Ask These 6 Parents.
Father's Day is upon us, that time when we pause to celebrate dads and the contributions they make to their families. But for too many men in this country, those contributions are limited -- at least...
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