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Even when health concerns don't plague families of multiples, financial and housekeeping woes do. In 1993, Keith and Becki Dilley of Indianapolis, Ind., became parents of healthy sextuplets and were buried under an avalanche of daily feedings and diaper changes. A local developer sold them a new home at cost, but after four years, financial pressures forced them to move to a smaller one. In 1984, William Kienast, the father of New Jersey quintuplets, reacted to similar hardships and mounting financial problems by committing suicide...
Preparing for junior's arrival raises a diaper load of questions: Bottle or nipple? Thumb or pacifier? Cloth or disposable? For answers, just click on BabyCenter.com a new Website for parents-to-be with a due-date calculator and tips from baby doc T. Berry Brazelton. Best of all: the baby-namer database of 5,000 given names, from Anglo-Saxon to Yoruban, searchable by gender, origin and popularity. A Gaelic name that starts with B? No problem: Blaine. Here's hoping your Yoruban baby isn't Aina: a "complicated delivery...
DIED. VICTOR MILLS, 100, ingenious engineer who changed babies--and parenting--forever with the invention of the first mass-marketed disposable diaper; in Tucson, Ariz. Mills used his granddaughter as a guinea pig for the innovation that ushered in the throwaway culture. Hired by Procter & Gamble in 1926, he also worked on such household staples as Ivory soap and Pringles...
...heard it from my mother or the women in the neighborhood, and that wasn't just because they didn't go around paraphrasing Broadway musicals. Unlike Baby Boomer women, dear old Mom just soldiered on without theorizing too much about it. She didn't look for meaning in a diaper, or make distinctions between quality vs. quantity time. She wished she were not so plump, but it would have never entered her mind to take two hours out of her day to jump around to an exercise video. Rocky marriages were talked about over coffee perked in a Farberware...
...assistant to the center's teachers, undergraduates help supervise children on the playground, help out with arts and crafts projects and prepare snacks. One caveat: Chieppo warns the position at the HBS center-which cares for children from two months to four years of age-could include some diaper Changing...