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• Industrial Childbirth- great essay on modern childbirth

  If you are ever to give birth or assist one or if you did already, this essay from Adbusters is a must read...

  "...how blinded we can be by the guise of protection, how crippled we can be made by fear."

   

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• New prenatal test for Down syndrome less risky than amniocentesis

  

  "Pregnant women worried about their babies' genetic health face a tough decision: get prenatal gene testing and risk miscarriage, or skip the tests and miss the chance to learn of genetic defects before birth. But a new prenatal test could make this dilemma obsolete. The new method, developed by scientists at Stanford University, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, requires only a maternal blood sample to spot chromosomal disorders such as Down syndrome. “Right now, people are risking their pregnancies to get this information,” said Yair Blumenfeld, MD, a postdoctoral medical fellow in obstetrics and gynecology and co-author of a paper describing the technique. Current prenatal gene tests, such as amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling, require inserting a needle in the uterus and carry a miscarriage risk of around half a percent."

  Read more here

  I have been through amniocenteses and I wouldn't do it again. This new technique could be a big help in the future.

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• Alan Greene on cold medicines for kids | Stanford StoryBank

  Last year an FDA advisory panel recommended that the agency ban over-the-counter decongestants, antihistamines and cough suppressants for children under the age of 6. Now, drug companies have voluntarily decided to advise parents not to give these medicines to children under age 4. We asked Alan Greene, MD, clinical professor of pediatrics, to explain the changes.

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• What is inside?

  If you care what you put on your largest organ- skin you should check the brands you are using and the ingrediants they put in their products.

  Here is a great database...it takes a second. Try it.

   

  

   

  And also a fantastic  campaign "What's going on" that is trying to make us aware of which products our family uses every day- several times a day. Because it really matters.

   

   

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• Sugar vs artificial sweeteners

  If your school is trying to fight childhood obesity by replacing sugary sodas with artificially sweetened drinks - you may want to rethink the situation. New research shows that artificial sweetners may actually slow down metabolism and encourage overeating. While the studies thus far use only lab animals, apparently having a sweet-taste in the mouth is linked in the brain to the thought that calories and energy are on their way. When those calories do not appear, the metabolism is confused and activity level decreases and the desire to eat increases.

  From Swithers, S. & Davidson, T. (2008) Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol. 122, No. 1.

   

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• Can we play?

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• Do schools kill creativity?

  Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.

  Click on the title to lister to Robinson's speech at the TED conference. Inspiring.

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• How To Praise Children?

  There is a very big difference in how you praise your kid...watch the video.

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• The Secret to Raising Smart Kids

   

  Many people assume that superior intelligence or ability is a key to success. But more than three decades of research shows that an overemphasis on intellect or talent—and the implication that such traits are innate and fixed—leaves people vulnerable to failure, fearful of challenges and unmotivated to learn.

  Teaching people to have a “growth mind-set,” which encourages a focus on effort rather than on intelligence or talent, produces high achievers in school and in life.

  Parents and teachers can engender a growth mind-set in children by praising them for their effort or persistence (rather than for their intelligence), by telling success stories that emphasize hard work and love of learning, and by teaching them about the brain as a learning machine.

  You can read more about the studies in Scientific American.

   

   

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• Overworking husbands drive working wives back into the home

  "If their husbands are working long hours, even high level professional women are more likely to quit. That may be true, at least, according to research I just came across that was presented earlier this month at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting in Boston.
  
  The Cornell study found that women whose husbands worked more than 60 hours per week were 44% more likely to quit their jobs, compared to similar women whose husbands did not overwork. In addition, professional wives with husbands working long hours were 52% more likely to quit than similar women whose husbands did not work such hours. On the contrary, men's careers were not significantly impacted by having wives who worked long hours.
  
  The researcher, Youngjoo Cha, a doctoral candidate at Cornell, examined census data from 1996 and 2002. She found that, as of 2002, 12% of Americans work more than 50 hours a week. Quite frankly, that number sounds a bit low to me, especially after speaking with so many researchers in science.
  
  So what do these numbers mean for women trying to balance a career in research and their family? Especially since, at least according to this study, women's careers seem to hinge in part upon having a husband who is around."
  
  --Andrea Gawrylewski, Associate Editor, The Scientist

  You can read more about the study here.
  
   

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