My friend gave birth last Saturday night and I have been at their beck and call to succeed in breastfeeding. It's great to have this privilege of influencing a new Mom and I sort of wish there was someone who was like that with me.
Hopefully she becomes as attentive to someone else. It would be like passing an invisible torch of empowerment, where clueless moms as I was are given the confidence to trust our instincts and parent as only we can, and to not let our fears dictate our choices and decisions about this new life.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Eating Healthy
Eating healthy need not be as serious as reading nuphedra reviews online. It can be just as easy as basic math, adding up the number of calories per serving that you get from the usual products that you buy and feed to your child.
A good example is the branch Oishi which has started appealing to the health buffs in moms. They have now come up with vegetable-derived chips and cheese-soaked crunchies that may convince someone they're healthy snacks. Well, they're not. Sure, they may contain less calories and sodium than the average junk food but they're far from being healthy. Moms are encouraged to get cereals instead, or cut up fruit sticks, to get their crunch fix from.
A good example is the branch Oishi which has started appealing to the health buffs in moms. They have now come up with vegetable-derived chips and cheese-soaked crunchies that may convince someone they're healthy snacks. Well, they're not. Sure, they may contain less calories and sodium than the average junk food but they're far from being healthy. Moms are encouraged to get cereals instead, or cut up fruit sticks, to get their crunch fix from.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Weather Please Get Better
Aside from coming very close to using ephedra for my hay fever caused by the drastic weather change last week (from super steamy to daily rain), the household are all sprouting varied symptoms which can only be allergies. My sister has hives (then again, she took the Nursing board exam) and a really bad cold. She uses up an entire pack of tissue in half a day! Hubs has a mild migraine and sinus congestion. And my son is either sneezing or scratching. Worse, when he scratches, his skin breaks out in these welts for a while. Very sensitive skin, that one.
So weather please, get better!
So weather please, get better!
Drawing An Age Line
I know I cannot really comprehend the longing for a biological child, because I was blessed with one. And I do commend those who put themselves out there to try and have one, because every child should be so wanted. But true, I also hope sometimes that people will choose to adopt more than spend years and money and emotions in trying for a biological child.
And despite the leaps and bounds medical science has made where obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics are concerned, I still think women should draw an age line (as well as medical people and institutions) for becoming mothers. Preferably between 20-45? So that no child will become just some baggage from a teen pregnancy and hasty first marriage... and no child should have to actually grow up watching their parents succumb to ill health and death?
Britain recently reported a 66-year old first time Mom who went to another country to pursue fertility treatments. I think that's just wrong. I think wanting to have a child is a plain, selfish reason. Wanting to be a parent is the better reason, and part of being a good one is to be able to give the best you can offer to your child. To actually be there to raise him. In this case, before the son even enters first grade, his mother could be dead. How is that responsible? How is that love?
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And despite the leaps and bounds medical science has made where obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics are concerned, I still think women should draw an age line (as well as medical people and institutions) for becoming mothers. Preferably between 20-45? So that no child will become just some baggage from a teen pregnancy and hasty first marriage... and no child should have to actually grow up watching their parents succumb to ill health and death?
Britain recently reported a 66-year old first time Mom who went to another country to pursue fertility treatments. I think that's just wrong. I think wanting to have a child is a plain, selfish reason. Wanting to be a parent is the better reason, and part of being a good one is to be able to give the best you can offer to your child. To actually be there to raise him. In this case, before the son even enters first grade, his mother could be dead. How is that responsible? How is that love?
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Friday, June 5, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
I Don't Have a Girl (yet)
But I hope that, sons and daughters of mine will grow up with a healthier attitude towards beauty and self-esteem. That they won't measure a person's worth by apearances, and that their perceptions won't be perverted (like thinking an unwrinkled face is beautiful).
The news of a Mom addicted to Botox (seriously, don't the friends and family of people like her tell her she actually doesn't look good at all?) who gifted her 18-year old daughter with Botox injections (making her teener addicted as well) is making the rounds. It's actually very laughable if it also isn't very sad. Because this is the kind of society where our sons and daughters are growing up. Men aren't even turned off by breast implants anymore. They even gift their girlfriends with them. There are sites even where women without money for the breast augmentations can sign up and greet donor men.
Sick. Perverted. Hopefully, my kids won't be like them.
Source
The news of a Mom addicted to Botox (seriously, don't the friends and family of people like her tell her she actually doesn't look good at all?) who gifted her 18-year old daughter with Botox injections (making her teener addicted as well) is making the rounds. It's actually very laughable if it also isn't very sad. Because this is the kind of society where our sons and daughters are growing up. Men aren't even turned off by breast implants anymore. They even gift their girlfriends with them. There are sites even where women without money for the breast augmentations can sign up and greet donor men.
Sick. Perverted. Hopefully, my kids won't be like them.
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Monday, June 1, 2009
Pex Mommies Dinner at Gotti's
Twas fun having dinner and coffee with the Pex Mommies last Friday. I really had great fun being out and I really, really love the food at Gotti's.
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