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Did You Know: 

Growth spurts can start as early as 10 days after your baby’s birth.  Growth spurts usually are preceded by a sleepy, lethargic day and a big jump in appetite.  Growth spurts may happen again at 3, 6, and 12 weeks and again at 4 and 6 months.  If you begin to notice that your child is not as satisfied with the amount that you have been feeding her previously, then she may be beginning a growth spurt period.  If you are breastfeeding, you may want to add a feeding or two to satiate your baby’s appetite and to help increase milk production.

Power Tools : Grief And Loss

Single Parenting And Grief:

by Ron Huxley, LMFT

"Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Single parents experience grief too. One of the biggest sources of their grief is the loss of time. Single parents seem to never have enough time (or money) to fulfill all the needs of work, home, and family. And the thought of having a social life, to many single parents, is simply a joke. Working, single parents are forced to juggle career and family life. At the end of the day, when the next shift begins, they feel exhausted and unable to enjoy their time with their child. Some single parents feel guilty for not having enough time for their children or for not having a mother or father for the child. These feelings of guilt can lead to difficulty in setting limits for their children. It can also lead them to deny their own needs, for personal socialization and emotional growth, in favor of their children. These parents need a "bill of rights" which allow them to take care of their own needs as well as the needs of their children. As we will discuss in the chapter on Permissive Parenting Styles, parents need to take care of themselves before they can take care of others. Single parents may feel that they must remarry in order to adequately provide for their children. Their child needs a father or mother to take care of them. As a result, many single parents remarry too early and end up unhappy and in a worst situation. Unless they are aware of their feelings of grief and take care of themselves, they are doomed to repeat past mistakes. This ends up in more pain and hurt for the whole family.

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