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Can wife and I handle pre/post our baby birth problems without our parents' help?
You and your wife can absolutely handle a baby without Grandparents help, many people have in the past and will in the future. The real question is: Do you want to?
Having a baby and caring for a ...
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Organising child care when giving birth
The birth of a child is an occasion where family often will pull out the stops to help, my mother and sister each came from NYC to London for a week and a half after my second was born, giving my wife ...
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Is it appropriate to say "Congratulations" to premature parents?
My daughter was born at 27 weeks. Congratulations will be appreciated in any case, I don't think you've stuck your foot in your mouth. After all, they did expect to have a baby, just not quite so soon....
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Laws Regarding Newborn Care at a Hospital
Legally, no medical procedures can be done to minors without parental consent (with exceptions in some states for contraceptive care for teenagers). In practice, doctors who claim emergency medical ...
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giving birth at home-- how to deal with an older child?
We did this twice. Friends and family are obvious choices but we lived far away from family at the time.
When #2 was born, #1 was not quite a year old and we had him stay the night at a friends ...
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Organising child care when giving birth
This will depend on location, but some things you can try:
There are many daycares that offer emergency overnight services for things like this. Ask your current daycare. If you don't have a daycare ...
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Can wife and I handle pre/post our baby birth problems without our parents' help?
It doesn't so much matter what we think, it matters what your wife thinks, and it sounds like she'll be happiest and most comfortable giving birth and learning to care for an infant with her mother's ...
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Does banking cord blood provide significant benefits?
If you read the fine print, there are actually not a lot of conditions where your baby's cord blood has been proven to do anything, and most of the beenfits are for other people's children.
Here are ...
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Laws Regarding Newborn Care at a Hospital
As naomisl said, legally they can't do anything without your consent, and they have a lot of checks and balances to make sure the right baby gets matched with the right parents. However, a lot of ...
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Can wife and I handle pre/post our baby birth problems without our parents' help?
Can you both handle this without help from you parents? Absolutely.
From the point of view of making life easier for your wife or yourself, using the help of the parents is just perfectly fine.
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giving birth at home-- how to deal with an older child?
We birthed two children at home. When we had only our #1 child (22 months old), we were lucky, because the birth of #2 started at midnight, and #1 slept all night. We took #1 over to another room to ...
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giving birth at home-- how to deal with an older child?
We birthed 6 of our 7 children at home (#2 was the only one born in a hospital). Our older kids were always at home during the births. Sometimes grandparents were able to watch them in another room, ...
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Does banking cord blood provide significant benefits?
Treatments using cordblood are legitimate but as @swbarnes2 has said, there are limited benefits to your child. Because if they have genetic weakness, then their own cord blood will also have that ...
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What are the differences between a child who was born vaginally versus via caesarean section?
I believe there are more factors to the health and intelligence of children than the way they arrive in this world. I personally was one of those mothers that wanted to be like every other woman and ...
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