Short Maternity Leaves, Long Deployments
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"Little man, I love you! Mommy misses you," Spec. Amy Shaw spoke softly as she looked into the video camera in her Baghdad barracks, surrounded by photographs of tiny Connor James, the infant son she left behind in Wisconsin. "Mommy'll be home soon."
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(CBS/AP) The Army is considering shortening tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, but may face a dilemma between encouraging recruiting and keeping front-line positions adequately manned.
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You're ready to slow down after a long career, but are you prepared to spend more time with your spouse?
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MANCHESTER, N.H. One of the foremost experts on politics in the Granite State thinks she has found the next critical constituency: military moms.
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America's presence in Iraq is moving into its 22nd month, a time that has been alternately frustrating and fulfilling to the young men and women who are far from home and far from done with their mission.
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By Valerie Kuklenski\\ Staff Writer  For hundreds, maybe thousands of years, new mothers have sought the advice and comfort of experienced women in their midst.
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Be careful with 52-week highs and lows. Here's why.
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What do retirees and mothers of young children have in common? They both want jobs with flexible schedules.
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Darcy Woodke recalls the day she picked up her husband and several of his National Guard buddies after they got back from Iraq.
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Women who are overweight or obese before becoming pregnant generally spend a longer time in labor than thinner women do, a new study suggests.
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The SATs and college applications are well behind you, and your last kid -- your baby! -- is just about to fly the coop. You're either weeping as you dust his trophy shelf -- or comparing paint samples, picking just the right color for your new yoga den.
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Being deployed to Iraq certainly has its hardships. But they aren't always economic ones, particularly if you take the time to understand the special financial-planning opportunities provided to the military.
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The authors ofÂ  'The Milk Memos' talk about their practical and often funny guide for mothers who want to keep nursing after they go back to work.
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Add long working days in 110 degree heat with the threat of death at the hands of insurgents. Subtract families, friends and spouses the troops are separated from by thousands of miles. Multiply by a yearlong tour. The result, sometimes, is battle fatigue.
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Amanda Tyrell thought she wouldn't see her husband for a year and a half when he left in July for training and then military service in Iraq. But she'll get to see him one more time Sunday before he eventually departs to Iraq. She and other wives raised money to pay to fly some 74 Vermont National Guard members home for a visit.
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Clinic reveals 'significant' number of queries from wives of men deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a co-host of ABC's "The View," will go on maternity leave next month, a show spokesman said Saturday.  Hesselbeck, 30, will leave the popular New York-based daytime talk show beginning November 8 or November 9, spo...