A Mom's Note

This is how I look now. A 'lil woman looking like a tadpole. I still have like over a month to wait though. It's getting closer and closer and I dunno if I can do it. Just afraid to think of giving birth. My fears are all about me and the baby. Hope Dannielle would cooperate with her mama and won't give me much of pain. Hope God will grace me with an ease labor and delivery. Every night, I suffer coz Dannielle always plays soccer (lol). She moves in different ways -- flipping, stretching and kicking. It's more painful when she kicks my lower abdomen or my bladder (if I'm right) and when she hits my ribs. What's exciting is that I think Dannielle can sense her papa's palm and she does plays with him. I dunno! Everytime Chad rubs or feels my tummy, she's trying to communicate. Peeing is also part of it. I can't count in my bare fingers how many times I got up from bed just for that necessity. Ang kinabuhi sa buntis...kalisod na lng jud!

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Let's all find out if urine is safe enough to drink when water is scarce. An article "The Yellow Liquid Diet : Is it a good idea to drink urine when water is scarce?" written by Chris Wilson... An extra day or two, at best. A healthy person's urine is about 95 percent water and sterile, so in the short term it's safe to drink and does replenish lost water. But the other 5 percent of urine comprises a diverse collection of waste products, including nitrogen, potassium, and calcium—and too much of these can cause problems. When you drink your own pee, all the stuff that your kidneys had attempted to excrete comes right back into your stomach, and much of it ends up back in your kidneys. After several days of this, your urine will become highly concentrated with dangerous waste products, and drinking it can cause symptoms similar to those brought on by total kidney failure. At that point, you're doomed either way—from dehydration on the one hand or renal meltdown...

Hmn...you might be thinking that it's the Black Friday during Holy Week. No, no, no folks! I am referring to the Black Friday that falls a day after Thanksgiving. What comes in your mind after Thanksgiving? Mine is Christmas and the gifts that I will be receiving and of course, gifts for our love ones. Stores are busy during that time of the year. We'll have all the stress in the world going to different stores to another to get the perfect gifts. Along with that, stores are so crowded and that we couldn't park our cars on the closer area. Also, there would be lots of shoppers flocking around with the same goals with ours --- to shop. Isn't it too hassle? Instead of going out for shopping, why not stay home, face the computer, browse websites and start shopping. But, wait up! We need updates from our favorite stores. I can help you with this. I recommend www.black-friday.net for you to browse. This website is updated with black friday ads of hundreds of s...

A new report from Perth's Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has found a strong link between childhood ear infections and exposure to tobacco smoke. The families of 100 Aboriginal children and 180 non-Aboriginal children participated in the Kalgoorlie Otitis Media Research Project, allowing the collection of social, demographic, environmental and biological data to investigate the causes of otitis media (middle ear infections). The children had regular ear examinations from birth until 2 years of age. Chief Investigator Dr Deborah Lehmann, who heads the Institute's infectious diseases research, said ear infections were the most common reason that young children see a doctor and can cause life-long problems. "Up to 20 per cent of children have more than three ear infections between 1 and 2 years of age. If their hearing is damaged, it can seriously affect their educational outcomes and social circumstances in adulthood," Dr Lehmann said. Read full article her...

Reading a lot of articles from Sciencedaily.com feeds my mind with vast of information especially about pregnancy. I do love this though. I do agree with the study conducted in the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom pertaining to the risk the first born baby will have. If you wanna know why, just read this article. First-born Babies' Higher Asthma And Allergy Rates Due To Pregnancy Conditions ScienceDaily (May 21, 2008) First-born children are at higher risk of developing asthma and allergy because of different conditions they experience in the uterus, according to new research from the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom, which will be presented at the American Thoracic Society's 2008 International Conference in Toronto on May 21. In order to determine whether the higher risk of asthma and allergy in first-born children is the result of a prenatal process of post-natal factors, researchers investigated whether birth order affected several immune markers that are set at ...

"Natural is the best". A mother's milk is full of nutrition for the baby. It has all the natural goodness that a formula can't provide. I always say that I will be breastfeeding my baby. Now I am more inspired with the article I just read that breastfeeding raises children's IQ as well as improves academic performance. Of course, I am not forgetting the relevance of genetics. Children acquire intelligence from the parents and basic needs are just the secondary factors. Anyway, let's just read this article. Breastfeeding Associated With Increased Intelligence, Study Suggests ScienceDaily (May 6, 2008) The largest randomized study of breastfeeding ever conducted reports that breastfeeding raises children's IQs and improves their academic performance, a McGill researcher and his team have found. In a new article, Dr. Michael Kramer reports the results from following the same group of 14,000 children for 6.5 years. "Our study provides the strongest evi...