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Welcome to Making Healthy Families, a parenting and family resource for childbirth, pregnancy and raising healthy families brought to you by prenatal and family development expert Dr. Gayle Peterson. Search these articles for guidelines based on scientific research on what promotes and ensures healthy family relationships. Our families are the gardens in which we grow, parents and children alike. Information on family processes that promote connection over disconnection spell the difference.

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 • Birth: Letting go of the fear
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 • Characteristics of healthy families
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 • Rebuilding relationship after an affair
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This quiz allows you to identify 5 major factors that determine the overall health of your relationship: how you make decisions, whether your relationship has healthy boundaries, the quality of family support you have, how well you stay connected when you argue, and the warmth of your overall connection. Find out how strong your couples bond is before you have a baby! Take this special quiz designed by Dr. Gayle Peterson to help you figure out if your relationship is baby-ready.


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Body Centered Hypnosis for Childbirth
"Medical research has shown that fear can affect labor by decreasing blood levels of oxytocin. My prenatal counseling program incorporates body-centered hypnosis and techniques for coping which allow a woman to anticipate her physical and emotional response to labor, to master her fear, thus allowing a greater potential for a smooth, uncomplicated childbirth..." from An Easier Childbirth. Read the entire article.

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