Posted by Loree Parker
May 19, 2011
Healthy Family Initiatives hosted a field practicum student for the 2011 spring semester in partnership with the Rice University Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality. The mission of the Center, which was initiated at Rice in...
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Posted by Loree Parker
May 19, 2011
Exercising while pregnant is good for mom is hardly news, but now that mothers-to-be know it's good for their babies, it will be that much harder to morph into a couch potato. Maternal guilt can now rear its head months before baby even appears on...
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Posted by Loree Parker
May 05, 2011
Sleeping With Babies Can Be Dangerous
March 29, 2011: Last year, 177 babies in Texas died while sleeping with a parent, sibling or relative. One mother shares her heartache to warn others.
Rachel McNeill...
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Posted by Loree Parker
November 29, 2010
(Houston Chronicle) - We were deeply saddened to read about the tragic deaths of a mother and daughter in the Nov. 9 edition of the Houston Chronicle, with postpartum depression cited as the possible cause...
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Posted by Loree Parker
October 05, 2010
(Time.com) Losing your job when the economy takes a dip can have some damaging effects on your health; the stress, anxiety and depression among the unemployed has been linked to heart disease and an increased risk of suicide. But according to new...
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Posted by Loree Parker
September 21, 2010
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Announced today, the National Coalition to End Child Abuse Deaths is fully endorsing the release of the Second Edition of the We Can Do Better: Child Abuse and Neglect Deaths in America report,...
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Posted by Loree Parker
September 21, 2010
September 21, 2010
(CFPPP) The best way to reduce the number of children in foster care is to prevent child abuse and neglect from occurring in the first place. But this is easier said than done, especially in Texas where funding prevention has not ...
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Posted by Loree Parker
September 14, 2010
(Statesman.com) More than 14,000 Texans who are now in state programs designed to prevent child abuse, neglect and delinquency would lose those services under a state budget-cutting proposal, according to Health and Human Services Executive...
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Posted by Loree Parker
September 01, 2010
(NY Times) -- I don’t remember exactly how old my son was during that first visit to my friend Amy’s house. But I distinctly remember the highchair beside her kitchen table. Her twins are six months older than my first born, and she also had an ...
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Posted by Kate Bolen-Lourie
April 09, 2010
(CNN) -- With her 5-week-old daughter crying in a bathroom at Nordstrom, and not knowing how to get the baby to latch on to her breast, Garima Nahar found herself surrounded by other women. Some offered tips, but one woman told the new mother to...
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