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Polly Berrien Berends

"Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives."

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"Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives."

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"The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving."
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"A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need."
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