Choosing a Workout for Your Pregnancy Looking for an exercise program while you’re pregnant can be somewhat like choosing chocolates in a candy store. You don’t know if you’re going to like it once you buy it or if it’s going to satisfy your very individual needs and tastes. Pregnant women addicted to their weekly …
Creative Ways to Announce a Pregnancy Learning that you’re going to have a baby can bring a flood of emotions, especially when you’ve been trying to conceive for a while. Hope, joy, love, happiness, and anticipation are just a few feelings that can envelop the announcement of an addition to the family. Many people don’t …
Addressing the Common Problem of Post Adoption Depression After adopting a long-awaited child, Karen Foli and her husband, John Thompson, were shocked to discover that it was not always the joyous event that they had imagined. Their new daughter, adopted from India, had been raised for her first five months in an environment where she …
5 Steps to Help You Achieve Your Goal Are you planning on a New Year’s resolution to start saving more money in the new year? Like any resolution, unless you take some action, nothing will ever change. For example, if your New Year’s resolution is to lose weight, you WILL have to change a few …
Your Local Library Is A Goldmine of Resources for Your Toddler and Infant My toddler and I traveled recently to a place that many parents do not realize can pay huge dividends in the early educational development of their little ones. We drove into the parking lot, and I got her out of her car …
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder in which insulin – a hormone secreted from the pancreas – is either unavailable or ineffective in fulfilling its role. Its job is to enhance cellular uptake of glucose (sugar), amino acids, and fatty acids after eating. Some examples of complex carbohydrate sources are cereals, bread, and grains, and …
A Real Pain in the Knee We all like to encourage our children, particularly our adolescent children, to get out and get involved in sports. There’s no doubt that athletics teach teamwork, help keep kids fit and keep them busy. However, the downside is that sometimes a child’s growing skeleton can’t quite keep up with …
Helping to Alleviate Your Child’s Fears Shandra Valenzuela knows hurricane season will inevitably stir up not just broken tree limbs and loose debris in her yard but the fears of her oldest son, Stephen, 11. “My oldest son is extremely anxious,” says Valenzuela, who lives in Tampa, Fla. “He won’t watch the weather channel. If …
Don’t You Dare Have Kids Until You Read This! It’s a question few people take the time to ask themselves: Am I ready to have a child? In his new book, Don’t You Dare Have Kids Until You Read This! (Three Rivers Press, 2003), Corey Donaldson doesn’t claim to have the answer. Instead, he brings …
You Do Have Time! Incorporating Exercise Into Your Daily Routine The biggest reason that most people give for why they are unable to fit exercise into their life is lack of time. Most think that the only way they can effectively exercise is to go to a gym or hit the bike and running path. …