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In a recent article in the New York Times, Perri Klass, MD says it is vital to check up on the parent’s mental health in the first months of a baby’s life. U...

You've just had a baby and you reach for the fifteenth diaper of the night and you realize there are only two left in the bag!!! What? You ask yourself, “how did we use so many in such a short amount of time”? Welcome to the world of newborns an...

With both parents working more and more hours, out of necessity rather than choice and with day care centres now offering 24/7 care for our children puts a lot of pressue on today's working parents.  Forty percent of the American labor force now works some form of nonstandard hours, including evenings, nights, weekends and early mornings, according to Harriet B. Presser, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland.

Your wife/partner has just given birth and you do not feel the euphoria you were told you would expect when you witnessed her giving birth or after a while of being a New Dad? Guess what dudes? It is ok to feel like that. 

Depression and sadness is s...

So you've just given birth in the hospital and all the nurses are around making sure you and the baby are well. You spend 48 hours in the hospital (if you didn’t have a C-Section) during which your and your baby's needs are addressed. Then it's time to leave and your hands start to shake when you try to s...

It is the 27th January 2006 and my twins sons are 6 weeks old and it is time for me to visit my OB, Dr Emeka Okaro (http://www.womenswellnesscentre.com/eokaro.htm) for my post-partum checkup. My sons were delivered by emergency C-section. At this time, Ryan and Joshua are on four hourly feedings. We make the appointment to fit in with the feeding schedule of the boys. As we did not have any paid help with ...