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When Postpartum Depression Hits Home
Postpartum depression can tear a new family apart. If you see the symptoms in a new mom, get her the help she needs.
A new mother is supposed to be happy. She has a healthy, beautiful baby, so what could possibly make her sad?
Stress, anxiety, surging hormones, and a lack of sleep can all p ... read more
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Scared Silly
Phobias are no laughing matter. Here's how grandparents can help.
"There are monsters under my bed!"
"Turn the light on — it's too dark!"
Childhood fears are a nearly universal part of growing up. "It is normal for children, developmen ... read more
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10 Ways to Celebrate Your Grandchild's Mom
These ideas will help you make her feel special this Mother's Day.
Whether she’s got a newborn, preschoolers or teens, Mother’s Day is a special time for your daughter or daughter-in-law — and an opportunity for you to let h ... read more
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6 Babysitting Basics
Worried you're not prepared to babysit your new grandchild? Our tips will help get you ready.
As a new grandparent, you’ve already fallen in love with the adorable grandchild in your life. But sooner or later, the baby's parents are going to ask you to sit for th ... read more
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Breastfeeding is Back
New moms are often anxious about nursing. A field trip with your daughter to a breastfeeding boutique can ease her fears.
As Sara Savage and her pregnant daughter, Diana Hegarty, made their way out of a Manhattan boutique, they cooed at toddlers while Savage paid for her daughter's new breastfeed ... read more
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8 Fertility Treatments Explained
We've done the research so you can skip the questions & stick to supporting the trying couple.
Infertility affects about one in eight couples in the U.S. — and perhaps that stat includes your own daughter or son. The good news: Infertility is, for the most part, t ... read more
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Supporting a Fertility-Challenged Couple
10 do's & don'ts for comforting a couple trying to get pregnant.
In my early thirties, my parents were so eager for me to get married that my father once answered a personal ad on my behalf. Five years later — after I'd found a husban ... read more
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Grandparent Boot Camp: First Trimester
The first workout of a 9-month fitness plan designed by Wayne Westcott, Ph.D., for grandparents-to-be. Welcome your grandbaby with open — & toned — arms!
Let's face it: While they score points for being cute and cuddly, babies are a ton of work! Becoming the pitch-in grandparent who's the apple of every new parent's eye require ... read more
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Trend Alert: Class Act
This grandparent moved to the head of the class — the grandparenting class!
First-time grandma Donna Mora recently enrolled in a class. Not at the local community college, but at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif.
"The grandpare ... read more
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Is Your Daughter Expecting a "Push Present"?
7 birthing gifts that would make any new mom feel... glamorous!
When a daughter or daughter-in-law has a baby, she gives the greatest imaginable gift: a grandchild! It has long been tradition to congratulate new parents with bouquets of fl ... read more
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Expecting... At Last!
How to best support a daughter giving birth at an older age. Plus: Medical experts fill you in on what to expect.
When Lilly Chase’s daughter Patrice Panza announced she was pregnant, Chase was elated. “I knew she wanted children so badly. It was very special,” says Chas ... read more
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Trend Alert: A Trip to the (Baby)Moon
We've been trendspotting! Find out what heaps of expectant couples are doing pre-parenthood.
For the first seven years of their marriage, Eric and Kris Davis daydreamed of lounging on Hawaiian beaches.
In October, the Minneapolis couple finally booked a flight &ndash ... read more
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There's an Ultrasound in My In-Box!
Many grandparents are meeting their grandchild... in an e-mail.
It took a little prodding from her pregnant daughter. But when Gayle Morris opened her e-mail, she met her grandson for the first time. From his first official photo, there he ... read more
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Baptism, Bris, Namings — Oh My!
What's your role at your grandbaby's welcoming ceremony?
In Navajo tradition, it's the exuberance of a baby's first laugh that triggers a ceremony. Just make sure it's a giggle, not a gurgle — and be sure there's a witness. Ac ... read more
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A Baby Shower for... Grandma?
A trend set to take off, or a fad bound to fade?
Louise had long been complaining to friends in her Chocowinity, North Carolina town about not having any grandchildren. The 60-year-old was even beginning to think she might n ... read more
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Grandparents to the Rescue
They've just become parents for the first time — and they need your help!
While an honor, becoming a temporary member of a new-baby household can require the diplomatic intuition of a veteran United Nations negotiator — and that's before you f ... read more
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Just Call Me Oma
The new grandparent monikers
Gathered in a box is the collection of greeting cards that chart my oldest daughter's life. Birthday, holiday, graduation cards: I've kept them all. A closer look at the earli ... read more
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Granny Nanny Boundaries
Don't say we didn't warn you: Set some... or else!
Grandmas adore babysitting. So much so, that it doesn't matter when you're called upon, or for how long. A whole week, maybe two. No problem. Right?
Not so fast. While you re ... read more
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Baby 101
A refresher course on babyland
If you think holding your own baby for the first time was the most earth-moving experience, just imagine how magical it’ll be to hold your grandchild. There’s noth ... read more
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