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Help! My Sleepless Toddler Is Breaking Me!

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. – Ralph Waldo EmersonI thought I had it down. Both my babies had been such perfect textbook sleepers, Harvey Karp would have been proud. Swaddle and soothe worked like a charm, as if Sleeping Beauty herself watched over their dreams.But now its payback. My children have become insomniac toddlers. Relentless. Or as my pediatrician calls it …

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Children With Autism And Bullies

My child is not yet in middle school and I am already worried about bullies.I had a gym teacher tell me a few years ago that she could pick out a bully at a young age. It was a 3rd grade class.Her statement made me nervous.Then, I attended a conference where a speaker said, All kids get bullied in middle school. Middle school is hard for all kids, not just ours.What …

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Pushing Motherhood: The Real and Raw Documentary

How old is too old to have a baby? Is there such a thing as being past our female prime in our progressive age of egg-freezing technology and scientific possibilities of surrogacy? Some say yes, some say no. The options for carrying and birthing a baby past the age of 35 teeters on controversial to some. Others don’t understand the controversy at all.