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Pregnancy
Postpartum depression can affect a woman’s mental health and well-being, causing her to experience a lack of joy in life, feelings of guilt, and severe mood swings. The condition can take away the opportunity for a new mom to build happy memories...
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Pregnancy
Postpartum depression is a complication of pregnancy that most women have heard about. This is a good thing, since about 15 percent of moms experience it. However, antenatal depression, or depression during pregnancy, is something that tends to be...
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Parenting
Postpartum depression (PPD) is commonly associated with new mothers, and support for women with PPD is readily available. However, emerging evidence suggests that 10 percent of new fathers also experience the “baby blues.” Postpartum depression in...
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Community
Here is a great article about how many women with post partum depression are “falling though the cracks”. Did your OB ask you about symptoms of depression or anxiety? Did your child’s pediatrician? Who would you be more...
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A wonderful article was written in the NY Times highlighting how postpartum depression can certainly show up before a woman even delivers. It also discusses that their may be many more symptoms than depression: anxiety, OCD tendencies, etc. A...
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Pregnancy
The birth of a child is a highly anticipated, joyous event for many families. Sometimes, though, new moms struggle with feelings of sadness, detachment, and doubt after they bring their baby home. It can be frightening when these unexpected feeling...
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Baby
With preexisting mental health issues and postpartum depression/anxiety affecting up to 20 percent of all new moms, many women worry that taking antidepressant medication while breastfeeding can harm their infant. Here are some facts to set the...
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I’m having two or three panic attacks a day and I’m so depressed I can’t get out of bed. Will this go on all 9 months? Right now I’m three months pregnant with twins and I had depression and anxiety my whole life but never...
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When did you realize you had postpartum depression and not the baby blues?
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Join me for a discussion of mood disorders in pregnancy. Lots of women have heard of postpartum depression, but did you know that anxiety can be just as common after having a baby? And that these issues can show up during pregnancy as well?...
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...These pictures are so incredible. Who can relate to smiling on the outside while suffering on the inside? Do you have your own pictures and stories to share? http://www.postpartumprogress.com/cant-tell-mom-postpartum-depression-looking...
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It’s been all over the headlines: a brand new drug called Zulresso was recently approved by the FDA to treat postpartum depression (PPD) in moms. How could that be anything other than great news, right? With PPD being the most common...
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Just this week, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released a statement saying they recommend that all pregnant women and new mothers be screened for postpartum depression (PPD). This is an update to their previous guidelines, which...
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Pregnancy
Society seems to assume that all new mothers will experience the same magical moment after they give birth to their baby: mom and baby’s eyes meet for the first time, and with that, mom feels this immediate sense of love and connection with the...
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Pregnancy
Welcome to Week 24! You’ve been pregnant now for about six months, and a lot has happened—even if you can’t see all of it. Your little baby now has fully grown eyelashes and eyebrows, and even if his or her hair is still likely white because...
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Over the weekend, Adele was given the coveted award at the Grammys for Best Album. The fascinating part of her speech, aside from honoring Beyonce, was her very public recognition of her struggles with postpartum depression and how it has affected...
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Pregnancy
The baby blues and postpartum depression (PPD) are conditions most parents-to-be and new parents have heard about. This is good, considering that 50 to 85 percent of women experience some form of the baby blues and about 15 percent going on to...
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Pregnancy
If you are pregnant, having a partner who can help you before, during, and after labor can be essential. For some families, that partner is your husband or wife, while for others it may be your mother, close friend, or other family member. Whoever...
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Pregnancy
Do yoga exercises promote a healthier, more relaxed pregnancy? Although the jury is still out with a definitive answer, recent research indicates that yoga has multiple benefits for pregnant women. In one recent study, practicing yoga was...
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Baby
So you just had a baby and you’re not getting enough sleep? Welcome to parenthood. While sleep deprivation is common for parents of babies and young children, it isn’t healthy. Sleep loss can make everyday duties dangerous. Additionally, sleep...
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Pregnancy
Every year, 10 million American women deal with an eating disorder. While many of these women will stop having periods because of their low weight, some will still menstruate and become pregnant. How an eating disorder can affect a pregnancy can be...
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I want to talk about mindfulness. You’ve probably heard of mindfulness before, but I want to talk about it in the context of desire. Mindfulness helps us close the twenty tabs that are open in our brains all the time. For me, those can be...
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After your baby is born, how long will it take to recover and what can you do for pain? What about postpartum depression? Exercise? If you have questions about your postpartum recovery, we have answers! Thanks to Music Together, which supported...
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These recent days have been tough for many Americans. Orlando, known to many as the happiest place on earth for its theme parks and resorts, cannot seem to catch a break. Unspeakable violence and unimaginable tragedy struck the magical city just...
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Parenting
Parental stress affects children of all ages. In fact, studies have shown that parents’ stress can put children at risk for behavioral, emotional, and learning problems, as well as health issues such as asthma. One recent study demonstrated that...
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Pregnancy
When you’re pregnant, it can seem like a new symptom pops up every day, from swollen feet to varicose veins to needing to urinate all the time. While most changes in pregnancy are completely harmless (if a little annoying), some should be taken...
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Parenting
After you have your baby, your doctor or midwife usually wants to see you in the office for a postpartum visit about six weeks after you deliver. However, a recent study that looked at moms who delivered in Maryland showed a pretty depressing...
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Parenting
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Pregnancy
While the media seems to focus on how quickly celebrity moms bounce back after pregnancy, we are covering the more realistic way your body goes back to its pre-pregnancy state (hint: it’s not a matter of days, or even a few weeks!) and what you can...
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Pregnancy
When a woman thinks of her perfect birth experience, it may include scenarios like going into labor spontaneously, having a great connection with your doctor or midwife, delivering a plump, term baby vaginally, and going home feeling ready to get...
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Blog
Physicians in Florida recently won a lawsuit challenging a 2012 state law limiting their ability to ask about firearms in the home. For physicians, this law was a real wake-up call that politicians were pushing their way into our exam rooms and, in...
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As a mom, I’d be the first one to sign up for any intervention that guaranteed my baby would sleep through the night, would be a fail-safe protection against postpartum depression, or made my child’s gut healthier. Who wouldn’t want these miracle...
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In children 2 to 6 years old, picky eating has been considered a normal part of development — fear of new foods, food jags, and erratic eating, that is. It’s been estimated that 14 to 20 percent of children aged 2 to 5 years are reported to be...
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Pregnancy
The use of bed rest or extreme activity restriction is a common first-line treatment for many complications of pregnancy, including: preterm labor, being pregnant with multiples, placenta previa, and preeclampsia or high blood pressure, to name a...
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Blog
May is Maternal Mental Health Month, and I would like to end this month with a question: how many of us feel bombarded with articles and blog posts on “mom burnout”? Or feel that our role is the equivalent of 2.5 full-time jobs? How many of us are...
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Baby
Although your baby has spent most of the past month sleeping, he or she has been doing a lot of hard work growing and changing. The first few weeks — really, the first few years — of life are marked by incredible development and learning for...
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Pregnancy
When you leave the hospital after delivering your baby, your doctor or midwife will send you home with paperwork that discusses what normal and abnormal recovery looks like. In case you misplace it (or you want to study ahead of time!), here are...
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Baby
Congratulations! If you’re like most new parents, you’re in the middle of a whirlwind of new experiences and emotions right now, just days after the arrival of your new baby. It’s not uncommon for new parents to be simultaneously flooded with love...
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Baby
Although your baby has spent most of the past month sleeping, he or she has been doing a lot of hard work growing and changing. The first few weeks — really, the first few years — of life are marked by incredible development and learning for...
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Pregnancy
When Mad Men actress January Jones announced that she ate her own placenta after giving birth, she gave celebrity credence to what is becoming a more common request in the United States. Eating the placenta—called placentophagia—is believed by many...
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Parenting
Ask almost any parent if a sleepy toddler is a happy toddler, and you’ll probably get an exhausted, “No!” In fact, research shows that lack of sleep or disordered sleep can be a serious problem for toddlers over the long term. A recent Norwegian...
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Parenting
Children experience worries and fears for a variety of reasons. The good news is that most childhood fears are mild and often disappear over time. In fact, the presence of a childhood fear often indicates the development of higher level thought as...
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Blog
Some of you will be ringing in 2017 as brand new parents — congratulations! This year will undoubtedly bring huge changes in your life and the life of your baby. New Year’s Eve will likely be very different this year than last, maybe even somewhat...
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Community
Looking for relatively cheap and safe ways to sleep with my newborn, who won’t sleep on her own. Our current best sleeping arrangement is me on the couch with baby sleeping on my chest, pillows on both sides of me in case she rolls off (which...
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Community
A new review has just come out and has found evidence that taking an antidepressant (especially in the 3rd trimester) increases a woman’s risk of given birth prematurely: A summary (and link to original study in the article) can be found...
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Community
I just don’t understand why so many celebrities think they are experts in childbirth and parenting. What are your thoughts after reading this article?...
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Parenting
OCD, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, is a disorder characterized by compulsions, unwanted thoughts, and the need to repeat certain rituals over and over again, such as hand washing. These behaviors are usually irrational and are an attempt to...
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Pregnancy
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a condition that affects 12-21 percent of all women, depending on the definition used and the population being examined. It can be present when a woman has two main issues: irregular or absent periods, and signs...
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Health
Young children often show an interest in hair as they explore new textures. It’s common for children to go through a developmental stage of playing with their own hair or their caregiver’s hair. For a few children, however, hair becomes an...
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Health
Hashimoto’s disease is an autoimmune disease in which a child’s own immune system attacks his or her thyroid gland. The disease interferes with the thyroid’s ability to produce thyroid hormones and often leads to reduced thyroid function, or...
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Health
The roar of a passing train. The feeling of a warm, fuzzy sweater on your arms. The taste of a cold ice-cream sandwich. The bright colors of a rainbow. Experiencing each of these senses requires complex activity in your brain’s nervous system. But...
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Pregnancy
Postpartum thyroiditis is a condition that results in inflammation of the thyroid gland after giving birth. The condition first causes high thyroid levels, then results in hypothyroidism or low thyroid levels. Knowing the symptoms of postpartum...
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Parenting
A fine line exists between being too strict and too spoiled, and finding a happy middle ground is something parents have to constantly balance. Even if you do not mean to spoil your child, chances are there are times where you still do. The key is...
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Pregnancy
An estimated 10-25 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriage, resulting in millions of women dealing with a potentially traumatic situation. With today’s medicals advances, like home pregnancy tests and fetal ultrasounds in the first trimester,...
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Pregnancy
It’s normal to be a little scared of the unknown, and giving birth is no exception. In this day and age, when everyone shares every detail of giving birth, it is not uncommon to hear horror stories and wonder if you can handle the labor and...
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Blog
This is sponsored content. Crying all night. Poopie diapers. Spit-up. Feeding time…AGAIN. A stress level that is higher after the baby comes than it was before, coupled with exhaustion. These are just some of the many ways new parents are...
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News broke this week that Daniel Murphy, second baseman for the New York Mets, recently took two days off for paternity leave, causing him to miss Major League Baseball’s Opening Day and the season’s second game to be with his wife and child. Mike...
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One mom-to-be is considering eating her placenta because her husband says there are health benefits. Another mom has a house full of reptiles and isn’t sure how to tell her husband to get rid of them before the arrival of their baby. See what...
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“One can dream.” That’s often a quote we hear when we talk about winning the lottery or landing a job that lets us do something great like being a taster of new ice cream flavors for a living (I wish). However, what’s sad is that many American moms...
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Bonding with your new baby is supposed to come naturally, right? Society makes those first moments look so magical and easy. But what happens if you and your baby just don’t click right away? After all, not every parent instinctively knows what to...
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This week, one family that’s full of snow may also be full of sorrow. Why is this little girl depressed? See what our doctor says in this week’s Dear Bundoo. Dear Bundoo, I live just outside Boston, and I’m worried that my 3-year-old...
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As a busy pediatrician and mother of a very active 20-month-old toddler, I was shocked to learn that I had an incompetent cervix at 22 weeks of pregnancy. When my OB told me I had to stop working and spend the rest of my pregnancy on bed rest or...
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Starting when you were a little girl, you dreamt of the day you became a mother.Even the thought of how many children probably crossed your mind. If the thought of becoming a mother is wonderful, but the actual delivery part is terrifying,...
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While we tend to celebrate mothers every day, we know this weekend is a big one, so we’re throwing in some extra goodies for the big day. Happy Mother’s Day! 1. Hello, Princess! Hi Charlotte Elizabeth Diana! The royal newborn’s...
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Picture this: a woman recently shows up the hospital unaware she was pregnant and in labor—with twins! She gives birth quickly by an emergency C-section. How can a woman not know she is pregnant?! Can this be real? While this story sounds...
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Pregnancy
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Pregnancy
The placenta is a pancake-shaped organ designed to act as an exchange between the mother’s and baby’s blood supply. Not only does it produce the “pregnancy hormones” of chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), estrogen, and progesterone, it is also...
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Toddler
“You need to finish your vegetables before you can go outside and play,” says the dad to his little boy. “I want you to take two more bites of your meat,” says Grandma to her preschooler granddaughter. The “clean plate club” has roots in the days...
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Baby
You may have spent almost every minute of the past two weeks with your baby. You’ve probably already started to adjust to your new schedule of waking and sleeping at strange times, and hopefully you’re almost an old pro already at the feeding...
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Pregnancy
By now, almost everyone has seen or heard of the MTV show 16 and Pregnant, which documents the pregnancies and deliveries of teen moms. The show demonstrates the reality of teen pregnancy and has actually been credited with some of the recent...
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Toddler
Puberty is the stage of childhood every parent dreads. But what happens if your child begins showing signs of puberty at a very early age? Puberty is considered to be to early in girls if it begins before the age of 7 or 8. In boys, early puberty...
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Pregnancy
You’ve just spent nearly 40 weeks growing a human, carefully watching what you eat and how much you weigh. Now that you’ve given birth, you might be anxious to get the extra pounds off and, more importantly, focus on getting your body back in...
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Baby
You may find your child’s pediatrician or your own doctor asking you to complete an ACEs checklist at a routine visit. ACEs, or Adverse Childhood Experiences checklists, are quickly becoming an important part of a general health and wellness exam...
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Health
Before a diagnosis of ADHD can be made, doctors and mental health professionals must gather information through various screening tools. The screening process can involve clinical interviews, observations from teachers and parents, psychological...
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Pregnancy
An epidural is a type of anesthetic that can provide pain relief during labor and delivery. Specifically, it is a regional anesthetic that blocks nerve impulses of the lower spine. It decreases sensations of pain in the lower half of the body. The...
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Baby
You may have spent almost every minute of the past two weeks with your baby. You’ve probably already started to adjust to your new schedule of waking and sleeping at strange times, and hopefully you’re almost an old pro already at the feeding...
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Parenting
Animal abuse or cruelty has been associated with a variety of childhood psychological and/or emotional issues, including negative childhood exploration, depression, anger, a sign of future violent behavior, or a signal that a child is being abused....
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Health
For most children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, the symptoms typically appear early in life. The National Institute of Mental Health estimates symptoms usually first appear between 3-6 years old. However, because there is...
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Parenting
Morning sickness, cramps, back pain, hunger pangs, weight gain—all normal symptoms when you’re pregnant. But what if your husband or male partner is suffering those same signs right along with you? This is called Couvade Syndrome, which comes from...
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Health
Huntington’s Disease (HD) is a rare disorder that affects the brain and nervous system. It is cause by an abnormal gene that can be passed down from parent to child. While it is present from birth, most people with the disease don’t start having...
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Toddler
If you spend any amount of time searching online for health information, you will no doubt discover sites claiming that you have “hidden” food allergies or intolerances. Name your favorite chronic ailment, i.e. headaches, bloating, acne, even brain...
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Baby
You’ve got a picky eater on your hands, and if you’re like most parents, you’re wondering what you should do, if anything, to manage this. You’ve heard the pat advice: don’t worry about it; this is a normal stage; your child will grow out of it....
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Pregnancy
Unfortunately, complications do arise over the course of some pregnancies. Issues like gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, or bleeding may make a previously carefree pregnancy filled with anxiety, worry, and sadness. A delivery that comes too early...
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Baby
By the time your baby is old enough to eat solid food, the decisions about which food to begin with seems monumental. One friend advises you to use iron-fortified cereal, while another warns you to steer clear of any cereal at all. It’s so...
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Health
With all the options available for autism treatment, it can be hard to know where to turn. While there is no proven cure for autism, most experts agree that treatment should start early and should include structured, intensive therapy (25 hours per...
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Parenting
Children can begin to show signs of bullying as early as preschool, and studies show these signs increase in prevalence as children mature from first grade into middle school. Research shows that bullying seems to peak during early adolescence,...