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• Can you suggest any books on dealing with a child's disability?
• Will intense exercise raise my body temperature too much?
• Will intense exercise raise my body temperature too much?
• How do we respond to family when they tell us we are raising our childwrong?
• How do we respond to family when they tell us we are raising our child wrong?
• I don't want to be stuck in the hospital bed. Can you suggest a few different ways to remain active during birth?
• I am considering raising my children vegetarian. Do people still have the same thoughts about vegetarians, or has thinking come around that we can satisfy our body's needs?
• What is the best way to respond to 8-year-old twin boys French kissing each other?
• My 2-year-old twin girls only say a very few words and talk to each other all the time, but no one else can understand them. Do you have any suggestions or words of wisdom?

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