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A helping hand. Karina Smirnoff was overwhelmed with anxiety about becoming a first-time mother to her newborn son, Theo, but she found solace in a strong support system — her parents. “I love babies, but when I would come to my friends who had a newborn and they were like, ‘Here, hold,’ and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, how do […]
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File this one under Studies We Don’t Exactly Know What to Do With: A study from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York–Presbyterian claims that maternal stress during pregnancy may actually affect fetal and child development — including the sex of your baby. Hey, there are currently studies out there searching for the “gay gene” too, […]
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If you only judged pregnancy announcements by celebrity Instagram posts, you’d think that sharing the news was always a happy event. But here in the real world, we understand that pregnancy can present women with a variety of feelings: elated, scared or, in some cases, angry. For country singer Carrie Underwood, she felt a mixture of both excitement and hesitation, […]
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