Encouraging fathers to take time off work to look after their newborns not only takes pressure off the mother, psychologists say: it also helps reconfigure their brain to cope with the coming years of fatherhood.
After years of living in big cities and creating stories set in wilderness, the best-selling author of the "Wild Robot" series moved to the Midcoast last year.
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After the birth of her first son in 2015, Chelsea Conaboy’s overwhelming reaction was worry.“It wasn’t just that I worried about his safety and well-being – though I certainly did. I also worried about the worry itself,” Conaboy said via phone last.