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Isn’t it interesting how we can think that Postpartum Depression is something that happens to other people even while we are surrounded by the signs of depression within ourselves?
I struggled with Postpartum Depression with three of my four births and I’m not yet out of the woods with my fourth. My fourth baby, Laurelyn, is […]

How many of us are currently coping with, or about to cope with, our children’s schedule changes? The transition from school year to vacation is heavy on the minds of most of the parents I know and has figured prominently here in recent posts on GNMParents. My own children are in the process of leaving […]

Recently, a group of investigators at Harvard were found to have been personally enriched, through consulting for drug companies, to the tune of $1.6 million dollars, each, over a period of seven years. That’s approximately $228,500 per year. Based on what my husband makes as a physician at an academic institution, this would […]

Every 6-8 weeks, I try to go away by myself for a weekend. Even before we completed our adoption, Peter and I agreed that I would take time off once in a while as compensation for the weekends he’s on call at the hospital and seldom makes it home.
It’s easy to explain to K and […]

ADHD often gets a bad rap because it seems like a “new” thing. The problem here is that it is an old problem that has been called many names, but just like a rose, whatever you call it, it still amounts to the same problem for many.
ADHD was described in a book of German […]