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Some of the mothers in our groups have become so conflicted at the thought of leaving their babies to return to work, they begin a vicious routine of trying to do two jobs without any help.

There was concern at the outset about how we would find mothers willing to take part in a study that required them to come with their babies four times a week to be observed, especially since we made it clear we were not going to give them advice about child care.

But very often mothers of colicky babies experience exhaustion and defeat which sometimes can be followed by depression.

As boys, we learn to betray our future wives by mastering the subtle ways out mothers can be broken by our petulance and disapproval.

They fought their asses off for equal rights in the workplace, went to law school, became doctors, fought the corporate fight, and managed to raise children in a much nicer way than our mothers did.

When are we going to have mothers who will rejoice in sending their children even to death?

The fathers and the mothers looked at their children with mingled sensations, in which the skepticism of parents toward their children and the habitual sense of the superiority of elders over youth blended strangely with the feeling of sheer respect for them, with the persistent melancholy thought that life had now become dull, and with the curiosity aroused by the young men who so bravely and fearlessly spoke of the possibility of a new life, which the elders did not comprehend but which seemed to promise something good.

The mayor read their names amid the sounds of mothers ssshusshing their children and one little girl wailing loudly, the sound fading, like an ambulance turning a corner, as she was carried away into darkness.

It was that thick gray chilly rain that sometimes grips the northeast in August and sends the children of summer colonies and beach towns into sporadic fits of Monopoly, bowling, Old Maid, hide-and-seek in the closets and the basements of houses pungent with damp, sends them finally to driving their parents crazy, until their mothers let them play in the rain as one last desperate diversion.

Daughters who adore their mothers and would lay down their lives for them.

Years after, I remember, I read a monograph on grieving that studied bereaved children and found that many thought their mothers had moved away, gone to a new house, a new life, new children.

Wisdom and Reassurance from Other Mothers on Your First Year with Babu JEAN kunhardt, MA.

Participant- observers moved about freely, interacting with both mothers and children.

The needs of new mothers have been met in an important and special way by Lisa Spiegel and Jean Kunhardt, who have been conducting mother-baby groups for nearly ten years.

In a safe and supporting environment, they have encouraged new mothers to speak freely about their fears and concerns.