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Helping an Older Child Adjust to a New Baby: What to Expect and What Helps
Family Life

Helping an Older Child Adjust to a New Baby: What to Expect and What Helps

The older child who responded to the news of a new baby with delight may now be hitting the baby, refusing to eat, and wetting the bed again at 3.5 ye...

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How Older Children Experience the Arrival of a New Baby
Emotions

How Older Children Experience the Arrival of a New Baby

When a new baby arrives, older siblings face a significant emotional adjustment. The parent who has been their primary source of attention, comfort, a...

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Family Dynamics After the Birth of a Child
Emotions

Family Dynamics After the Birth of a Child

The arrival of a new baby changes everything about family dynamics—relationships between partners, roles and responsibilities, communication patterns,...

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Helping an Older Child Adjust to a New Baby: Regression, Jealousy, and What Helps
Family Life

Helping an Older Child Adjust to a New Baby: Regression, Jealousy, and What Helps

The older child who was thrilled about the new baby during pregnancy and then became clingy, demanding, or intermittently unkind to the infant once it...

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Sibling Jealousy When a New Baby Arrives
Family Life

Sibling Jealousy When a New Baby Arrives

Very few things in a young child's life match the disruption of a new sibling. The child who was at the centre of the family's attention discovers, ov...

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Your Relationship After Having a Baby: What to Expect and What Helps
Family Life

Your Relationship After Having a Baby: What to Expect and What Helps

It is one of the best-kept secrets of new parenthood: most couples find their relationship harder after having a baby. The research on this is consist...

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