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Meditations for Mothers

Legacy

The best that you leave your children will never fit into a hope chest. Let you legacy be kindness and compassion. Let them remember the way you always offered a healing hand from a true and giving heart. Leave your children knowing that everyone makes mistakes, and the real test is how you correct them. Create a legacy of self-care rather than self-sacrifice. Let it be said that you passed along the keys to a full-spectrum life rooted in unconditional love and a deep dance with spirit. That you spent a lifetime asking questions and seeking answers and knowing you might never find them. Let future generations inherit the understanding that when every being takes its place in the circle of life, harmony will prevail over all. What greater gift to leave behind than a glorious life well-lived? If that is the legacy that carries your name, you’ve left them all rich beyond means.

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Adoption in the Media: What Do Pregnant Women, Killers and Crying Babies Have in Common?

by Adam Pertman

When we don’t fully understand something, we’re prone to make mistakes when dealing with it. This not-very-profound truism popped into my head recently as I was thinking about how to lead into a new commentary – the one you’re reading right now – about the negative repercussions of the secrecy, stigma and shame that permeated adoption for generations and, alas, sometimes still do. […]

Some Traditions Should Be Changed

by Maggie Lamond Simone

The holidays are upon us once again, the season of family, of gatherings, of traditions. The season, in most people’s lives, of hope.

Our tradition at Thanksgiving had been for many years to head to a lodge in the country with my mother’s family; aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews would converge and catch up and try to store up enough memories to last for the coming year. One year, however, a favorite aunt was no longer there, and the tradition gradually died with her. It simply wasn’t the same without her, and so things changed. […]

Sandy Recovery – The Devil is in the Details

by Jane Samuel

I am a former Jersey gal, tough to the core, with a fast talking side to me which is quick to tell you, “I do not bump my hair!” I am also a mother who has cultivated her desire to make things better for the last eighteen years of my seemingly non-stop-parenting life. […]

Boost Fertility with Good Nutrition!

by Cindy Bailey

Dear Reader: This is a reprint of Cindy’s original blog post for us. A followup will be posted later this month. Cindy is truly a pioneer and dedicated to providing information for those trying to conceive, at any age.

Diet makes a difference in your fertility! I know from experience. At 40, after trying to conceive for over a year, I visited a popular reproductive endocrinologist who said I had a 2% chance of conceiving on my own. Devastated, I decided to do what I could to be in that 2%. I would not give up! […]

Midlife Mother Conundrum

Dear Reader: As midlife mothers, we wish to encourage our children to live as they desire and do what they desire, when they desire. However, we are always faced with this truth: will we live to see it all?

(Humorous) Story, as related, today. During a moment of quiet time, together, son, age 10, says to mother, age 55, “Mom, I know when I want to get married!” Mother bemusedly, “When?” Son, “When I’m 39 years old!” Mother…..”Um… NO SIR!” as she walks away.

How To Use Grace and Compassion When Facing Hard Times

by Cyma Shapiro

In times like these: floods, drought, earthquakes, extreme hot weather, extreme cold, power outages, downed electricity/cable/telephone wires, we are plunged into circumstances that we sometimes cannot overcome. And, to add, we must handle whatever comes our way with our children in tow. I fear that the “same old, same old” is about to be the “new normal” – that is, that nothing as we’ve experienced in our lifetime(s) will be the same for our children. […]

Adoption – Paying it Forward (A Comprehensive List of Resources) In Honor of Adoptive Mothers Everywhere

by Jane Samuel

It has been over nine years since we brought our youngest daughter into our home and I continue to be astonished by the layers that adoption has brought to our life as a family, my work as a mother – even to my own emotional being. […]

Adoption Statistics

The nature of adoption statistics have changed since the U.S. Census Bureau included its first adoption questions on the 2010 Census. There are roughly 1.5 to 2 million child adoptees in America and anywhere from 6 to 10 million adult adoptees. […]

You Mean It’s Spreading?! (Found in…Stock and Land & News.com.au – Australia)

Older Parents On the Rise as Babies Take a Back Seat

More than 50,000 new parents of babies in 2011 aged 40+
Mums 45-49 and dads aged 50 fastest growing parental groups
The older mum trend is expected to increase in future years

Older Mums On Top, But For How Long

ANGELA EKERT likes to joke with people that there is ”just a small gap” between her first and second children.

Ten days ago Mrs Ekert, 46, gave birth to Elyssa, a quarter of a century after her first daughter. Giving birth at her age is not unusual. New figures show a record 12,800 babies were born to women over 40 last year – up from 7100 a decade earlier.

http://sl.farmonline.com.au/news/metro/national/general/older-mums-on-top-but-for-how-long/2630933.aspx

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The nature of adoption statistics have changed since the U.S. Census Bureau included its first adoption questions on the 2010 Census. There are roughly 1.5 to 2 million child adoptees in America and anywhere from 6 to 10 million adult adoptees. […]

Older Parents On the Rise as Babies Take a Back Seat

Older Mums On Top, But For How Long