Meanings and perceptions of parenthood among transgender men who became pregnant before gender transition - Dantas DDS, Almeida GPLL, Ferreira BO, Therense M, Neves ALM.
This qualitative study, with five participating interlocutors, sought to understand the senses and meanings of parenting among trans men who became pregnant before gender transition. Analysis was conducted in light of social theories of gender. The results... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Penny Simkin, ‘Mother of the Doula Movement,’ Dies at 85
As a childbirth educator and maternal advocate, she promoted a profession that provides comfort to women giving birth and offers postpartum care as well. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Penelope Green Tags: Pregnancy and Childbirth Deaths (Obituaries) Parenting Babies and Infants Kennell, John H (1922-2013) Seattle Simkin, Peggy Source Type: news

Africa: Africa's High Teenage Pregnancy Rate Demands Strong Response
[HRW] AU Should Adopt Guidelines to Protect Rights of Pregnant, Parenting Girls (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - April 25, 2024 Category: OBGYN Tags: Africa Children and Youth Health and Medicine Human Rights NGOs and Civil Society Pregnancy and Childbirth Source Type: news

Why It ’ s Important to ‘ Meet People Where They Are ’ When Improving U.S. Healthcare
The Covid-19 pandemic made issues with access to medical care apparent. At the Time100 Summit on Wednesday, three healthcare officials discussed how the concept of meeting people where they are could help improve the whole industry.  Dr. Toyin Ajayi, the CEO and co-founder of Cityblock Health, Dr. Raj Panjabi, a former White House senior director and special assistant to President Joe Biden, and Dr. Luther T. Clark, the deputy chief patient officer at Merck, each pointed to their own versions of bringing health care to people in a conversation moderated by TIME Senior Health Correspondent Alice Park. (Merck is a 20...
Source: TIME: Health - April 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julia Zorthian Tags: Uncategorized News desk edits sponsorshipblock T100Titans2024 Source Type: news

There's an'Epidemic' of Loneliness Among U.S. Parents, Poll Finds
WEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024 -- Anne Helms is one busy mom, constantly juggling the demands of working from home with parenting two young children.Despite that whirl of activity, Helms says she often feels isolated and lonely. “I work from home full... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - April 24, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

‘Mary Jane’ Review: When Parenting Means Intensive Care
Soon after Alex was born at 25 weeks, with multiple catastrophic disorders, Mary Jane’s husband, unable to cope, fled their marriage. Still, she hopes he “finds some peace, I really do.” She also thinks kindly of her boss, who means to accommodate her but pretty much fails to. “It’s daily moral…#maryjanes #maryjane #queens (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

‘Mary Jane’ Review: Rachel McAdams Makes a Solid Broadway Debut Depicting the Sacrifice of Motherhood
Parenting inspires varying schools of thought. While some relish the tasks of caretaking, others speak candidly about the hardships of child-rearing, sharing the true realities of motherhood that have been glamorized over time. In “Mary Jane,” the 2017 play written by Amy Herzog and making its…#maryjane #amyherzog #broadway #annekauffman #queens #rachelmcadams #brendawehle #maryjanes #laeljellinek #jjaredjanas (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Should you let your baby 'cry it out'? A generation of parents felt like a failure when they tried to follow parenting guru Gina Ford's strict regime. Four of them tell their survival stories
Gina Ford's bestselling book sold over a million copies and for at least a decade she was the baby sleep guru, famous for the strictness of her feeding regime and popularity among working mothers. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Let Them Eat … Everything
In the age of Ozempic, the “fat activist” Virginia Sole-Smith is inspiring and infuriating her followers. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lisa Miller Tags: Sole-Smith, Virginia Content Type: Personal Profile Weight Diet and Nutrition Race and Ethnicity Women and Girls Food Obesity Parenting Beauty (Concept) Eating Disorders Substack Inc Cold Spring (NY) The Eating Instinct: Food Cul Source Type: news

I'm a psychologist. Here's why sensitive parenting is best for children
One day while working at my outpatient private practice in Homewood, Illinois, I received a call from a high school counselor. She asked if I could see—right away—a senior and his parents in her waiting room. She had just talked with the boy, Peter, who had told her he wanted to kill himself. I…#homewood #illinois #bowlby #danielcdennett #ronaldruff #phd (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Do you have an ‘emotionally immature parent’? How a nine-year-old book found a new, younger audience
Therapist Lindsay Gibson ’s 2015 book has sold over a million copies and its message has soared on social media. What does it mean?In an ideal world, adults would be more mature than their kids. They would be better at handling stress, resolving conflicts with others, or talking about their feelings. In the opening chapter of the bookAdult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, therapist Lindsay Gibson presents an unsettling alternative.“What if,” she wrote, “some sensitive children come into the world and within a few years are more emotionally mature than their parents, who have been around for decades?”Cont...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 18, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Shayla Love Tags: Well actually Life and style Parents and parenting Family Psychology Source Type: news

Evaluating the dissemination and scale-up of two evidence-based parenting interventions to reduce violence against children: study protocol - Shenderovich Y, Ward CL, Lachman JM, Wessels I, Sacolo-Gwebu H, Okop K, Oliver D, Ngcobo LL, Tomlinson M, Fang Z, Janowski R, Hutchings J, Gardner F, Cluver L.
BACKGROUND: Eliminating violence against children is a prominent policy goal, codified in the Sustainable Development Goals, and parenting programs are one approach to preventing and reducing violence. However, we know relatively little about dissemination... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

The Sorry State of Postpartum Care in America
It used to be taboo for moms to talk about their postpartum struggles. Today, not so much. In fact, it’s quite the opposite: it seems like everyone lately is talking about the difficulty of the postpartum period. On Google, if you search for “celebrity postpartum stories,” almost every result yields an article about famous moms discussing things like postpartum depression, anxiety, psychosis, and even pelvic prolapse. In March 2023, Brittany Mahomes, wife of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, shared a warning with her 1.9 million followers, writing, “Just a daily reminder. Once you hav...
Source: TIME: Health - April 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Maytal Eyal and Bridget Freihart Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news

Posttraumatic stress disorder and spousal relationships in natural disaster victims: a longitudinal study - Huang J, Liu ZY, Zhou X.
BACKGROUND: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms after natural disaster can have a detrimental effect on marital relationships, which may be through parenting-related factor. AIMS: The study aimed to examine the mechanism underlying the long-term ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news

Parenting a high and growing population of youth in the Arab region: a scoping review for an evidence-informed research agenda - Ghandour LA, Anouti S, Lotfi T, Meho L, Kashash R, Al-Akkawi A, Majed AZ, Akl E, Afifi RA.
The Arab region is experiencing the largest youth cohort in its history. Parental influence is a clear factor in the well-being of this demographic. This scoping review serves as the first consolidated synthesis of existing research on parenting in the Ara... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 13, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news