Stories
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When parenting brings a paradigm shift
There were no indications during her pregnancy that Carol Nahra’s son would have severe, life-threatening disabilities. Here she describes the stages on her journey from shock to love and beyond.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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How we bury our children
Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.
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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
Catalogue
- Books
Forgotten children : parent-child relations from 1500 to 1900 / Linda A. Pollock.
Pollock, Linda A.Date: 1983- Books
The parent-child relation : the psychological background and other papers / H. G. Baynes [and others].
Date: 1937- Books
The dynamics of parent-child relationships / by Percival M. Symonds.
Symonds, Percival Mallon, 1893-1960.Date: 1949- Books
The problem child at home : a study in parent-child relationships / by Mary Buell Sayles.
Sayles, Mary Buell, 1878-Date: 1928- Books
The modern parent : a practical guide to everyday problems / by Garry Cleveland Myers.
Myers, Garry Cleveland, 1884-1971.Date: 1930