Family
Nurses' labor of love is all in the family for grandmother-granddaughter team
When soon-to-be mothers are feeling exhausted and ready to give up, Krissy Maher, a labor and delivery nurse at Adventist Hinsdale Hospital, regularly calls in the Pushing Specialist.
Family
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FAMILY
Nia Vardalos adopts new attitude on sharing
Nia Vardalos made an art of airing the family laundry. A delightful, bighearted, lucrative art.
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FAMILY
Navigating the family vacation: Roller coasters can be exciting, but it pays to consider what constitutes a real adventure
When Keith Bellows' firstborn, Adam, was 18, his idea of getting outdoors was "opening a window," Bellows says.
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HEALTH
Poop in pools more common than you may think, CDC warns
Attention swimmers: More than half of the public pools tested in a new study contained bacterial evidence that someone may have pooped in the pool.
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HEALTH
NICUs are tense, hopeful places for parents of newborns
Little Carter Silveira was sound asleep in the Sutter Memorial Hospital neonatal intensive care unit.
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FAMILY
Backyard playsets reach a new level
It is the kind of tree house that a kid could spend all day and all night inside.
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FAMILY
Doctors welcome Chinese girls with medical needs into their family
An outraged Janet Agranoff watched in 1996 as "60 Minutes" aired a report about "dying rooms" in Chinese orphanages, where infants and toddlers - most of them girls - were left to starve. When the report ended, the obstetrician-turned-stay-at-home-mom looked at her husband and said, "We're going...
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FAMILY
Parents at Play: Look, it's moving by itself!
Most kids (and plenty of parents) like to build - forts, castles, towers, model airplanes, and more - which explains why there are so many products out there designed to help us do just that. They range from simple wooden blocks and kits that show us how to construct all sorts of cool things using...
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FAMILY
Rabid bat bites baby
KENNEWICK, Wash. - A Pasco, Wash., baby is being treated to prevent rabies after she was bitten twice by a rabid bat last weekend while on her grandparents' deck.
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FAMILY
Presenting the college graduates of 2013: Generation R
Five years ago, Nick Moeder and his friends counted themselves lucky. In the dark heart of the Great Recession, they were starting college rather than trying to start a career.
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HEALTH
Kids burned by instant soup cups
On a typical June day last year, 3-year-old Jolan Jackson was sitting at the dining room table in his booster chair waiting for his meal.


