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Beating Back Guilt with Data
I was told to put my babies on their back to sleep, which is the standard my daughter is learning today. The main difference for today’s parents is that they can’t use any bumper pads, quilts or pillows, or even have a sweet soft toy in the crib. All of these beautiful and sometimes heirloom…
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Check it out!
We are living in the information generation. There has never been so much knowledge available to us on just about everything and in so many formats. However, we are huge fans of books and libraries. My daughter had some book recommendations for me that I want to share here. Back in the 80s and 90s, I…
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Folic Acid and Fodmaps
I became pregnant at the end of 1989 in Scotland right before emigrating to North Carolina. The first thing I noticed, with horror was that my favorite appetizer at the Ho Wong restaurant near the river Clyde in Glasgow, suddenly tasted completely different, and I didn’t enjoy the experience. This was the beginning of a…
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Folic Acid and Fodmaps
I became pregnant at the end of 1989 in Scotland right before emigrating to North Carolina. The first thing I noticed, with horror was that my favorite appetizer at the Ho Wong restaurant near the river Clyde in Glasgow, suddenly tasted completely different, and I didn’t enjoy the experience. This was the beginning of a…
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A New Role
I remember my grandmothers and how each of them lived into their role differently. I remember my mother’s relationship with each of my grandmothers. I saw how my mother and mother-in-law built connections with my children, their grandchildren. Now it’s time for me to live into the grandmother relationship. I am NanaKim, wanting to be…
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Reinventing Grandmotherhood
Not everyone gets to be a grandparent. There are many steps that are out of our control and sometimes out of the control of our children. I was so keen to get started that I asked a wonderful teacher and mother to be if I could play some of that role for her unborn child.…
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A Baby is On the Way
My daughter and her husband have discovered they are pregnant with their first child. They already have three cats so things will get very busy very quickly. They are both data oriented in all aspects of their lives. They are on top of the tools at their disposal. My daughter gets a positive pregnancy result…
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Planning Ahead for Child Care
My daughter and her husband both work full time in interesting and rewarding careers with great benefits, especially healthcare and including some support for child care. My daughter especially is able to get a European level of maternity leave of around 30 weeks, stitched together from a variety of categories of leave. This leaves people…
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Grand parenting a new generation
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