Paid Family Leave

May 7, 2009

Americans are expected to spend nearly $16 billion this year on Mother’s Day celebrations. It’s an impressive outpouring of appreciation – and it’s also an aberration. The other 364 days of the year, American mothers are on their own, with profound consequences for public health. As an obstetrician...

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Alison Stuebe

Paid Family Leave

May 7, 2009

Seems strange to talk about cervical cancer on Mother’s Day? Well, imagine this. You’re 26 years old and you’re diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer. You think you’ve beaten it, but two short years later your cancer returns and you have to have a radical hysterectomy – along with painful...

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Michelle Whitlock

Paid Family Leave

May 5, 2009

Ever secretly imagined your name being celebrated on the front page of a newspaper as "Mom of the Year" as you click through online news sites while munching on a yummy snack? Your finger poised over the mouse, about to click the next new story, and you realize: Hey, I know that person! It's me!...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Paid Family Leave

March 27, 2009

Why does the reality of everyday, routine care for birthing women diverge so radically from best-evidence practice?

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Jackie Levine

Paid Family Leave

March 22, 2009

Pediatricians see the problem every day in their offices: so many apparently well babies, so inconsolably fretful; not sleeping well; not feeding well, or feeding too much. So many toddlers whose behavior is out of control: obstinate, hyperactive; real temper tantrum factories. Could it be ADHD? Or bipolar disorder? At such a young age?

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Jerry Calnen

Breastfeeding Paid Family Leave

March 17, 2009

Here’s what Hanna Rosin is missing in "The Case Against Breastfeeding" : Moms are being urged to breastfeed but set up to fail.

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Bettina Forbes

Breastfeeding Paid Family Leave

March 1, 2009

There’s no question among health experts that breastfeeding is best for babies. It’s common knowledge that breastfeeding not only provides optimal nourishment for infants, but also protects them against infectious diseases, dehydration due to diarrhea, chronic diseases, obesity, and Sudden Infant...

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Julia Goodman

Paid Family Leave

February 26, 2009

There’s no question among health experts that breastfeeding is best for babies.

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Jerry Calnen

Paid Family Leave

January 29, 2009

Today I had the enormous privilege of representing you, and all of MomsRising, at the White House to watch President Obama sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law. As you know, MomsRising members played a major role in getting this Act passed with their over 150,000 supporting contacts to Congress.

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Paid Family Leave

December 2, 2008

In case you missed it, the New York Times ran a feature about men who care for their elderly parents. Nearly 40 percent of men are their family's primary care provider up from 19 percent in 1996, according to the Alzheimer's Association.

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