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Opportunity for mothers with postpartum depression Are you a mother with a child between 1 month old and 14 months old? Since giving birth to your child, have you experienced postpartum depression? If so, please consider participating in this study.	We can do this in our sleep! This post was originally published on Oct. 14, 2008, but so many parents through the years since and in the future can relate well to its message.
Our story of adoption and Attachment Parenting My husband and I realized fairly soon after adopting our first son that we needed to parent differently than a lot of friends and acquaintances around us.	Giving our children presence...at work! This post was originally published on Oct. 9, 2008, and in the past 7 years since, workplaces are increasingly becoming more family friendly, including allowing employees to bring their babies to work with them.
Why We Decided to Unschool My Kids: From Attachment Parenting to Unschooling It’s strange to look back on it all now, as it seems obvious we would be here now, but you could never have told that to the old me back when my 15 year old was born. You see, he taught us how to attachment-parent him.	Inviting them in... This post was originally published on October 6, 2008, but it's a great reminder that one way to connect with our children is to let them into our grownup world.
A mother's cry for justice There is a worrying new trend the English courts to separate infants from their primary carers overnight, despite compelling evidence that this can be psychologically harmful to them.	Early childhood neglect associated with altered brain structure, ADHD University of Washington research on children who began life in these institutions shows that early childhood neglect is associated with changes in brain structure.
Pregnant woman nurses abandoned infant to save her life Would you ever nurse someone else’s baby? What if the life of that child rested on your decision?	Mother's soothing presence makes pain go away, changes gene activity in infant brain A mother's "TLC" not only can help soothe pain in infants, but it may also impact early brain development by altering gene activity in a part of the brain involved in emotions, according to a new study.

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