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Friday, 27 January 2012
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I am NOT Saving for my Child’s College Fund
…And I don’t feel guilty about it. Nope, not even a little bit. While it may sound harsh, it makes sense for our family. When I was pregnant with our first child, my husband and I went back and forth on how much we should save for her college fund. We decided to start a 529 college savings plan and put money into the account monthly. We did this for six months, and really felt like we were giving our daughter a great advantage in life.
Well, things changed for our family. Because of an unexpected illness, I had to leave my job when our daughter was five months old. I became a stay at home mom and our income dropped by 40%. We quickly had to reevaluate our spending and saving plans. We cut out a lot of our unnecessary spending and were still saving for her college fund and we were doing ok. We planned to have me return to work in nine months and our income would go back to what it once was.
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How Do You Overcome Obsessive Saliva During Pregnancy?
Excessive saliva during pregnancy is terrible. Not only does it ruins our images, it also influences people's first impression of us.
I have been having excessive saliva for weeks now. Sometimes, I need to bring a bottle along whenever I am at home or go out with friends. Sometimes, I'd forget to bring the bottle with me. I even went to the fitting room to take out a sanitary napkin from my bag, spitting the saliva into it since that sanitary napkin absorbs 'water'.
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
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How Do I Increase My Chances of Conceiving?
So I am entering the ovulation period! Woo hee. Since last month has been crazy I bought some FertiliTea to help me regulate my cycle. I don't want another 56 day cycle, and sitting there asking yourself what if? I also read somewhere that probiotics, the one I have been taking Ultimate Flora women's care probiotic, helps regulate vaginal pH which is essential in achieving pregnancy. Many times the environment will be too acidic and the man's sperm have no chance of surviving. Also never forget those prenatal vitamins. I like them because they have many essential vitamins that we need daily anyways, so it can never hurt.
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Parenting Mistakes When Talking To Your Teen
This is a particularly difficult subject to discuss because it’s easy for one to come off looking like a smug know-it-all when discussing it. Even just the tittle “Common Parenting Mistakes” taken the wrong way looks like a sanctimonious line dripping with condescension.
It’s a lot easier for me with the families of my students because they know me well enough to know that I’m not like that. Besides, they actually pay me for advice where as you’re just reading some nut’s ranting on the internet.
In helping parents to overcome obstacles with their kids, I’ve notice many repeat mistakes over time. I try not to Monday-morning-quarterback my clients, but I do want to provide the best advice that I have available, so it’s a fine line I have to walk. But I cannot avoid it. With that in mind, here are a few of the mistakes I frequently see parents make:
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The Buzz About the Boob - Wet Nursing
So, there’s a buzz on Facebook right now about donating breastmilk and wet nursing – accompanied by not a little bit of controversy. The donation part is pretty self-explanatory, but what about wet nursing? A perfectly natural concept that has been in practice for hundreds of years is now being looked upon with varying degrees of discomfort from a good chunk of the population. Being a huge bookworm with a particular penchant for historical fiction, I was very clear on the concept of a wet nurse (who in my mind looks a lot like the St. Pauli girl); but, for those who aren’t so clear… a wet nurse is a lactating woman who is hired to nurse/feed another woman’s baby. For whatever reason, the hiring mother can’t (or doesn’t wish to, I suppose) breastfeed her baby but at least is forward thinking enough to want to provide her babe with the good stuff; so she’ll hire a wet nurse. There’s a great article on the evolution and current public opinion of this increasingly popular profession, here, which got me thinking.
