Surrogacy: Who decides to become a gestational carrier?
Why would a woman decide to carry another woman’s baby? One answer is that there are times in life when a loved one is in need of help. This happens when a sister or a cousin or a close friend has suffered repeated miscarriages, or had an illness or surgery that made pregnancy unlikely. In these instances, it is not unusual for a family member or friend to step forward, saying, “I’ll carry your baby.” But what of the woman who decides that she wants to carry for strangers? What prompts her to seek, usually through an agency, an individual or couple in need of a gestational carrier?
Surrogate or gestational carrier?...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 5, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ellen S. Glazer, LICSW Tags: Family Planning and Pregnancy Fertility Infertility Parenting Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Postpartum Psychosis Warning Signs
Having a baby is a wonderfully happy time, right? For many women, it certainly is, but estimates show that 1 in 5 women who give birth will suffer from some type of perinatal mental illness, such as depression, anxiety, OCD or psychosis. Chances are, this includes someone you know. In today’s podcast, Dr. Katayune Kaeni, a psychologist who specializes in perinatal mental health and a sufferer herself, discusses these often confusing and debilitating disorders, particularly postpartum psychosis, a more rare and severe form of perinatal mental illness.
Who is at risk? What does perinatal psychosis look like? And what is t...
Source: World of Psychology - February 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Children and Teens Disorders General Interview Parenting Podcast Pregnancy The Psych Central Show Women's Issues Source Type: blogs
Are You Sharing Too Much Information about Your Child Online?
Is it ever okay to discuss your child’s problems online? What if you are merely seeking advice? How do you know where to draw the line?
It is tempting to turn to the internet for quick answers and support. Perhaps your child is out of control. Or depressed. Or struggling in school. And you need advice… fast. It is comforting, helpful, and downright cathartic to vent and ask for guidance. We all know how worries and frustration can overwhelm. No family escapes the parenting years unscathed!
But when you post personal, detailed, and yes, unintentionally incriminating information online, it may affect your child’s...
Source: World of Psychology - February 26, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gail Post, Ph.D. Tags: Children and Teens Parenting Technology social media Source Type: blogs
Co-parent adoption: A critical protection for LGBTQ+ families
Every child deserves to be part of a loving family, and establishing a secure legal relationship known as parentage between parents and their children is critical to the well-being of all families. This provides stability and security for children and allows parents to care for their children, including making important medical decisions. For LGBTQ+ families, co-parent adoption ensures that parents have a secure legal relationship to their child.
What is co-parent adoption?
Co-parent adoption (also called “second parent adoption”) is the legal process of adopting a partner’s biological or legal child, when a person i...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 25, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sabra L. Katz-Wise, PhD Tags: Parenting Relationships Source Type: blogs
How Parents Can Get Out of the Helicopter Seat
You can’t read the daily news without encountering stories of school shootings, bullying, Amber alerts for child abductions, and news of fatal sports injuries. Despite efforts by schools to address bullying positively, we currently have government leaders who model name-calling, mockery, and marginalizing others as part of their daily conversation and tweets.
It’s enough to make any reasonable person unreasonably anxious. It makes already anxious parents want to wrap their kids in bubble wrap to eliminate all risks and keep them under their watchful eye, often winning for themselves a not complimentary term — ...
Source: World of Psychology - February 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marie Hartwell-Walker, Ed.D. Tags: Anxiety and Panic Children and Teens Parenting anxious parents Coping Skills helicopter parent Media overprotective parent Resilience Source Type: blogs
Were You Raised to Be Afraid?
“I was raised to believe that being frightened meant being alive. Timeo, ergo sum. That being scared is not a frailty but a skill. That I displayed intelligence by shunning whatever displayed itself as welcoming or wild. That the scariest time-bomb in the world was me.”
Some of us were raised to seek out scary things.
Not in a fun way. Not like skydiving or watching horror films.
Some of us were taught to expect and detect threats in every circumstance. Anticipating every buffet, ballgame and block party, every crosswalk, cough and conversation—we were taught to wonder: What could possibly go wrong?
Oh, this. Or th...
Source: World of Psychology - February 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Anxiety and Panic Children and Teens Disorders Family General Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Psychology Publishers Spirituality & Health childhood fear fearful parenting Source Type: blogs
Inside Schizophrenia: Schizophrenia in Women
Often we don’t really consider gender dynamics in treatment or medication. A lot of medications are only tested on men because of the risk of pregnancy, etc. This means there are whole drugs that have made it to market that may not have ever been tested with women. Schizophrenia affects women in many different ways than men.
In this episode schizophrenic Rachel Star Withers and cohost Gabe Howard discuss differences in age, symptoms, treatments, lifestyle, parenthood in the genders as they experience schizophrenia.
Dr. Hayden Finch joins to explain the medical side.
Highlights in “Schizophrenia in WomenR...
Source: World of Psychology - February 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel Star Withers Tags: Inside Schizophrenia Mental Health and Wellness Women's Issues Gender Differences Mental Disorder Mental Illness Psychiatry Psychology Psychotherapy Women's Health women's mental health Source Type: blogs
Parental Awareness Tools that Reduce Childhood Trauma
Since we are living in a time of extremely high statistical occurrences of childhood anxiety, depression and even suicide (which is happening at even younger ages), we need to look at the causes that are behind these difficult challenges that children, teens and young adults are facing today. Whether it be parental influences, interactions with abusive outsiders, school bullying, or something else, mental illnesses are growing at a rampant rate.
When mental illness is not alleviated, it can create C-PTSD (compound or complex PTSD), so it’s critical to reverse it early. What sometimes keeps the underlying factors of men...
Source: World of Psychology - February 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Maria Bogdanos Tags: Children and Teens Parenting Trauma adverse childhood experiences Childhood Trauma Source Type: blogs
Is bakuchiol safe during pregnancy? episode 210
We’ve got a fully packed program today. We’ll be covering a couple of cosmetic science news stories, catching up from my hiatus and answering questions about…
Is silicone suffocating hair and causing hair loss?Do proteins in nail products strengthen nails?What is goat’s milk doing in soaps and more?What’s an affordable version of Skinceuticals Triple Lipid Restore?Is Bakuchiol safe during pregnancy?
LA trip chat – Eco well sustainable beauty panel
Beauty Science News #1
Is Deva curl making people’s hair fall out?
Revlon teams up with the EWG
Hallmark Channel rant
Question 1&...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - February 18, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
The Effects of Positive Attention on the Impulsive Child
We’ve all heard the parenting proverb that a child who is acting out may actually be exhibiting attention-seeking behavior. And why not? We can understand this need because children are smaller, with less ability to command the attention of an adult or even other peers. They are just beginning to figure out what captures and sustains other people’s energy and attention, without much evaluation yet as to whether or not that attention is positive or negative.
But young children also seek another important resource: power. According to Erik Erikson’s theory of development, from ages eighteen months to three years old,...
Source: World of Psychology - February 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bonnie McClure Tags: Children and Teens Motivation and Inspiration Parenting Acting Out attention seeking behavior Child Development Criticism Discipline Education Impulsivity Learning Oppositional Defiant Disorder Source Type: blogs
10 Strategies for Recharging on the Spot
While it would be nice to have an entire day to recharge, it’s not necessary. And if you wait until you have a full day off (from work or parenting or any other countless responsibilities you have), you’ll likely be incredibly exhausted—physically, mentally, and emotionally.
The good news is that there are plenty of ways to recharge on the spot, whether you’re responding to emails at your desk, sitting on the subway, or dealing with a tantruming toddler (yes, really).
Below, you’ll find an assortment of soothing strategies to try anywhere—from breathing techniques to mindset shifts.
Take a virtual vacation. Thi...
Source: World of Psychology - February 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Books General Habits Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Stress Source Type: blogs
4 Insights on AAC I Learned From My Son With Autism
As a young professional in the field of communication sciences and disorders, I wanted to specialize in something. I just wasn’t sure what, exactly. Little did I know my son’s autism diagnosis would foster a passion for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).
My son Colin was diagnosed with autism when he was 3 years old. He also has childhood apraxia of speech. So I knew early he needed some type of AAC. A few months later, Colin began his journey using a communication device. I, in turn, dived into the world of speech-generating devices (SGDs).
Within a few days of using his communication device, Colin coul...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 12, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Deidra Darst Tags: Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Augmentative Alternative Communication Autism Spectrum Disorder Source Type: blogs
When is a heavy period too heavy?
It’s common for girls and their parents to wonder if the bleeding with their periods is too often or too much. Especially in the first few years of having a period, any bleeding can feel like too much. Usually, it’s not — but sometimes it is, and it’s important for parents to know what to watch for, and when to call the doctor.
In the first couple of years after periods begin, it’s really normal for periods to be irregular — and for some of them to be heavy. At the beginning, periods aren’t associated with ovulation, and the hormones and hormonal patterns that help regulate periods haven’t fallen into place...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Adolescent health Children's Health Parenting Source Type: blogs
Supporting Families in Educating About Children ’ s Dysphagia
Parenting is hard. Trying to parent in the world of parent-shaming is really hard. It’s not enough to raise a child to be a functional member of society. It’s dealing with all of the information and “help” from well-meaning people that causes parents to feel insecure, isolated, and criticized.
Parents often hear “Just give them a taste. They’ll like it,” from family members about their kid with feeding aversions. “I gave them some and they were fine,” to the parent of a child who is NPO (nil per os or nothing by mouth). Some may even use more extreme methods to “discipline” the child into eating or dr...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 10, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Heather Riga Tags: Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology Dysphagia Early Intervention Feeding Disorders Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs
Tips to Help Caregivers Educate Others About Their Child ’ s Dysphagia
Parenting is hard. Trying to parent in the world of parent-shaming is really hard. It’s not enough to raise a child to be a functional member of society. It’s dealing with all of the information and “help” from well-meaning people that causes parents to feel insecure, isolated, and criticized.
Parents often hear “Just give them a taste. They’ll like it,” from family members about their kid with feeding aversions. “I gave them some and they were fine,” to the parent of a child who is NPO (nil per os or nothing by mouth). Some may even use more extreme methods to “discipline” the child into eating or dr...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 10, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Heather Riga Tags: Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology Dysphagia Early Intervention Feeding Disorders Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs
