This week's parenting and child care news roundup includes stories about the CDC predicting a bad flu season; how to succeed in the first year of motherhood; the senate dismantling Obamacare and how one mother is using crowdfunding to help with the nationwide maternity leave problem.

This edition of The Sitter Blog parenting and child care news roundup includes the top news you may have missed over the busy holidays including stories about parenting trends and resolutions for 2017; the rise of real motherhood on TV; how will Ivanka Trump reform child care?; a British man is pregnant?; is the Zika threat behind us?; women suffer more stress at work than men; a report on the invisible workload that most career mothers deal with and more.

Tips on how to keep children with ADHD calm during the holidays; suggestions for Trump’s paid maternity leave plan; the best parenting photos of 2016; fitness tips for women as they near menopause; how do women's brains change after pregnancy and more in this weeks parenting and child care news roundup brought to you by The Sitter Blog.

Ivanka Trump presses congress on child care; how Trump will affect national healthcare; a Zika outbreak in Texas; child care is unaffordable in every U.S. State except this one; myths about menopause; and why Zika is so dangerous for pregnant mothers in the weekly Sitter.com Blog parenting and child care news roundup.

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This week's parenting and child care news roundup includes stories about Trump’s Health Care Reform; Work Life Balance Reality; Sleep Training Tips; The Difficult Balance Between Mother's Loving their Children vs Loving their Husbands — December 2nd, 2016

This week's parenting and child care news roundup includes stories about how president-elect Donald Trump’s policy will affect maternity leave, elder and child care; abortion numbers on the decline; the best herbs for menopause and moms balancing business and motherhood.

Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States. He is also a member of the Republican party, which may mean drastic changes in domestic policy. Potentially, these changes will introduce tremendous benefits and for families. Like millions of other Americans, you’re wondering, how these changes will affect you. What is Trump going to do with Obamacare? Child and elder care? How will working mothers be affected? What will happen in relation to laws regarding abortions?