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Grandparents
How often should grandparents see their grandchildren
There is often a lot of passionate discussion in online forums and Mother’s Groups when it comes to the hot topic of grandparents. Whether it’s the persistent MIL, overly ‘carefree’ grandfather or outdated parenting styles – there is always someone working through the challenge of trying to blend family dynamics together. The reality is that a lot has changed over the years when it comes to raising children. Centre for Perinatal Excellence (COPE) describes this...
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Your Support Network
Is your partner planning to take time off work?
Sharing the care of your newborn after delivery is an important topic to discuss beforehand. You will want to figure out how you and your partner will care for your little one, and how long that might work job-wise...
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Managing friendships with a baby
If you’re the first one of your friends to have a baby, or you have friends without kids you might be wondering how to maintain those relationships when your life has changed so drastically...
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Co Parenting
10 things you should do when going through divorce and separation with kids
Separation and divorce can be an extremely emotional and often distressing time for a child to navigate. The world they once knew can be turned upside down and their brains often don’t have the ability to properly process what it means. Kids dealing with divorce can often feel a range of emotions including shock, anger, upset, guilt and fear. Many will often worry if it was something they did to cause the split or for...
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Your Partner
5 important ways dads impact their child’s development
We talk a lot about skin-on-skin for new mothers but we know this is equally important for the father or partner to share with the new baby. Forming that connection from day 1 can help nurture a strong bond as the child grows.
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Parents apart: Living away from your children
Parenthood is such a diverse experience and families in 2022 come in so many different shapes and makeups. For some parents, part of parenthood means living away from your child for extended periods of time and a big question or source of worry is how to stay connected with your little one while being apart from them. Furthermore, due to societally held ideas about what it means to be a family, many parents who live...
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Your Partner
The go-to guide for partners during the first year of parenting
Bringing a baby home from the hospital is one of the most significant moments of your life. It’s been 9 months of your partner being pregnant… hours of watching them in labour and giving birth, and well frankly, a baptism by fire for those first few days in the hospital. There’s so much build-up and so much focus on the baby’s arrival – that the reality of bringing the baby home can be a shock...
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Sex & Intimacy
Let’s talk about SEX: Sexologist Aleeya Hachem on fertility and sex after birth
“There is a misconception that scheduled-sex isn’t sexy, and that isn’t true at all. Having a conversation with your partner, or even a sexologist about how to make this process more fun is essential” – Aleeya Hachem When Sexologist and Fertility Counsellor Aleeya Hachem studied psychology, sexology was “an emerging field”. Today, sexologists are in high-demand – and sexology graduates are on the rise. Sexology is fundamentally about supporting sexual health, including human sexual interests,...
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Sex & Intimacy
6 women talk about sex after birth
When it comes to sex, the media likes to favour young women – specifically pre-motherhood women. It’s as if once a woman becomes a mum, her sexual currency wavers. Ironic since the biological purpose of sex is reproduction, without which we wouldn’t have a human civilisation. Or, if the male gaze still approves, said woman is marginalised as a ‘MILF’ (hello Pornhub). What’s rarely discussed, though, is a woman’s sex life after pregnancy and childbirth...
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