A new life has begun in a stranger’s hands in a cold room filled with bright lights and unfamiliar voices. A tiny new babe has been “helped” from his safe cocoon like a chick whose shell has been peeled away by well-meaning fingers. This child does not know he has been born into an atmosphere […]
The journey through parenthood and pre-parenthood is often marked by a myriad of road signs that oppose each other and forks in the road that give no hint to where they are going. It can seem at times to be an obstacle course engineered to confuse and inspire fear and doubt in tentative new parents. […]