Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Researchers Have Ditched The Autism-vaccine Hypothesis. Here’s What They Think Actually Causes It.
Researchers Have Ditched The Autism-vaccine Hypothesis. Here’s What They Think Actually Causes It.
Genes and the microbiome are some of the most promising leads.
October 31, 2017 at 07:57PM
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Happy Halloween!
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What’s killing America’s new mothers? Written by Annalisa Merelli October 29, 2017
What’s killing America’s new mothers? Written by Annalisa Merelli October 29, 2017
"We were very healthy people living in Southern California, with great jobs... we thought we were untouchable.”
October 31, 2017 at 03:52PM
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What Would Happen If You Were Stuck In The Dark Forever?
What Would Happen If You Were Stuck In The Dark Forever?
There are points in our lives where we’re plunged into thick, incomprehensible darkness. Eventually, the light always manages to return. But what happens if it doesn’t?
October 31, 2017 at 11:06AM
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A Crab and Seafood Tasting at the James Beard House
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A Lesson From the Biggest Losers: Exercise Keeps Off the Weight
Monday, October 30, 2017
Hentai Porn Comic: Miyabi Tsuzuru – Saru Ni Onanii
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Hentai Porn Comic: Miyabi Tsuzuru – Saru Ni Onanii
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Hentai Porn Comic: Miyabi Tsuzuru – Saru Ni Onanii
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What Smoking 30 Packs Of Cigarettes Does To You Body, Visualized
What Smoking 30 Packs Of Cigarettes Does To You Body, Visualized
Here's what smoking a pack a day for a month would do to your lungs. And that's just one month.
October 30, 2017 at 04:22PM
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Porn Comic: Muscle Girls with Hairy Holes by Kunaboto
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'The Fear of Dying' Pervades Southern California's Oil-Polluted Enclaves
'The Fear of Dying' Pervades Southern California's Oil-Polluted Enclaves
As the state wins praise for its progressive climate policies, refinery emissions vex people in low-income communities. Things may get worse.
October 30, 2017 at 01:17PM
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The Praying Mantises in My Flower Garden
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Sunday, October 29, 2017
All The Candy That’s Sold During Halloween Week, In One Massive Pumpkin
All The Candy That’s Sold During Halloween Week, In One Massive Pumpkin
America buys 300,000 tons of candy during Halloween. Here's what it would look like in a giant ball looming over the nation's capital.
October 29, 2017 at 12:44PM
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Saturday, October 28, 2017
This doctor diagnosed his own cancer with an iPhone ultrasound
This doctor diagnosed his own cancer with an iPhone ultrasound
Can a smartphone-enabled ultrasound machine become medicine’s next stethoscope?
October 28, 2017 at 08:33AM
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Autumn Foliage at My Farm
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Friday, October 27, 2017
Jewish Philanthropists Create a Prize for Christian Missionaries
When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them For Life
When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them For Life
Some people who have to be responsible for their siblings or parents as children grow up to be compulsive caretakers.
October 27, 2017 at 03:01PM
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One Last Question Before the Operation: Just How Frail Are You?
When Hope Runs Out, Cancer Patients Are Making Their Own DIY Immunotherapy Treatments
When Hope Runs Out, Cancer Patients Are Making Their Own DIY Immunotherapy Treatments
Every generation has had its breakthrough that promised to, at long last, finally cure cancer, but this time around the chances of actually pulling it off are looking pretty good. But for some, progress cannot come soon enough.
October 27, 2017 at 10:21AM
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“No Fatties”: When Health Care Hurts
“No Fatties”: When Health Care Hurts
A fat person walking into a doctor’s office can expect lectures, condescension, and misdiagnoses from a medical culture that chalks every health issue up to weight.
October 27, 2017 at 07:56AM
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Storing My Tropical Plants in the Hoop House
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Thursday, October 26, 2017
Inside Botox’s Margin of Error
Inside Botox’s Margin of Error
It's based on the substance that causes botulism. That’s part of what protects Allergan’s $2.8 billion Botox empire.
October 26, 2017 at 05:43PM
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Sweden's mystery illness
Sweden's mystery illness
For nearly two decades Sweden has been battling a mysterious illness. Called Resignation Syndrome, it affects only the children of asylum-seekers, who withdraw completely, ceasing to walk or talk, or open their eyes. Eventually they recover. But why does this only seem to occur in Sweden?
October 26, 2017 at 02:25PM
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What Would Happen If You Were Stuck In The Dark Forever?
What Would Happen If You Were Stuck In The Dark Forever?
There are points in our lives where we’re plunged into thick, incomprehensible darkness. Eventually, the light always manages to return. But what happens if it doesn’t?
October 26, 2017 at 07:35AM
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The Osage Oranges at My Farm
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017
How Iowa Became An Obamacare Horror Story
How Iowa Became An Obamacare Horror Story
Premiums and tempers are rising in one of America’s most political states, with no solution in sight.
October 25, 2017 at 12:20PM
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A Lazy Person's Guide To Happiness
A Lazy Person's Guide To Happiness
Find the right environment, and very little effort is necessary.
October 25, 2017 at 09:47AM
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Fall Foliage in Maine
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Oatmeal Lactation Cookies
A delicious way to give your mother’s milk a little boost while having a tasty treat!
Ingredients
- 3 Cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1 Cup Butter
- 1Tsp Baking Soda
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 1 Cup Firmly Packed Brown Sugar
- 4 Tbsp Water
- 1 Tsp Salt
- 2 Tbsp Flax Seed Meal
- 3 Cups Oats
- 2 Large Egg
- 1 Tsp Vanilla
- 1 Cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
- 2-4 Tbsp Brewer’s Yeast
Cooking Directions
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2) Mix the flax-seed meal and water and let sit for 3-5 minutes.
3) Beat butter, sugar and brown sugar well.
4) Add eggs and mix well.
5) Add flaxseed mix and vanilla, beat well.
6) Sift togeather flour, brewer’s yeast, baking soda, and salt.
7) Add dry ingredients to butter mix, stir in oats and chocolate chips.
8) Scoop onto baking sheet.
9) bake for 12 minutes.
Yield: 4.5 Dozen Cookies
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: ~30 min
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‘Reality shrivels. This is your life now’: 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy
‘Reality shrivels. This is your life now’: 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy
Months before she was due to give birth, disaster struck for Katherine Heiny. Doctors ordered her to lie on her side in bed and not move — and gave her a 1% chance of carrying her baby to term.
October 24, 2017 at 04:09PM
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Americans Are Retiring Later, Dying Sooner and Sicker In-Between
Americans Are Retiring Later, Dying Sooner and Sicker In-Between
Data released last week suggest Americans' health is declining and millions of middle-age workers face the prospect of shorter, and less active, retirements than their parents enjoyed.
October 24, 2017 at 08:58AM
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Moving Tropical Plants Indoors
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Why We Still Don't Understand Sleep, And Why It Matters
Why We Still Don't Understand Sleep, And Why It Matters
Shortly after his 21st birthday, Henry Nicholls began to experience symptoms of narcolepsy, a debilitating disorder that's plagued him ever since. Sleep research is progressing, so why are he and others like him still waiting for a cure?
October 24, 2017 at 07:45AM
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Siblings – The Series #21
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16 Months and Still Breastfeeding
I can’t believe that not only did I breastfeed at all, but that we are still going strong at 16 months…..with no end in sight.
Starting before I ever got pregnant, I used to say to myself, why would any woman want to breastfeed when there is formula??? Who wants to ruin their body? Not me.
Then I got pregnant and started taking the classes and reading all the benefits and thought, ok I’ll give it a try.
The classes are great but nothing prepares you for an actual baby latching. The classes make it seem so easy, so natural. But it’s hard! Very hard. It’s so easy to give up and just start formula. I went through about the worst things you can experience breastfeeding and still pushed through. Every day telling myself, give it one more day. 493 days later, here we are still going strong.
I get mixed reactions. Why? Just stop and get your sanity back. Or that’s amazing!! I wish I could have gone that long. I can’t say there’s any one answer why we have gone this long, more like a mix of reasons.
Before I get ahead of myself, I’ll take you through my breastfeeding journey and how we got here.
Taking the classes while pregnant got me excited to breastfeed. They told me all the benefits (wow!) and how much it saves you the first year ($3,000). They taught me the holds and showed me the videos of the mothers latching their babies so easily. I practiced the holds with my fake baby and bought a boppy. I got this!
The First Latch
I was not able to latch Olivia right after birth since I had a c-section. They took her to Garret and gave her her first shots while they sewed me up. Once in the recovery room, they brought her to me and I held her for the first time. The nurse said ok it’s time to feed her and placed her near my nipple. She latched on and I was like wow this hurts. I told the nurse it hurts and she said that’s normal. It’s NOT normal, a good latch shouldn’t hurt. I had a difficult time holding her since I was scared to hold her (I had never held a baby before her). She kept popping off and crying. I now know this is because she wasn’t latched correctly and was getting no milk.
Once in our post pardom room, I kept asking the nurses for help. By this time, my nipple was blistered from her wrong latch. So we tried the other. Bad idea. That one got blisters too. The nurses kept latching her for me but as soon as they would leave the room, she would pop off and I couldn’t get her to latch again. I was starting to lose hope. I was blistered and stabbed.
Garret ran home and got my breast pump. I thought if I can’t get her to drink from me, maybe we can at least pump for her. I pumped about a few ML of colostrum and we fed it to her with a syringe. I felt defeated. Little did I know this all was just the start.
Giving Up
By the next day, the pediatrician came in and said this baby needed to get on formula ASAP, she hasn’t eaten in 2 days and dropped way too much weight. I felt like a failure of a mom. My only job was to feed her and I couldn’t. But I also felt relieved, that she was going to finally eat. I was devastated that all her cries for food were not met.
In the nurse walked with formula AND some crazy contraption to tape to my nipple and feed the formula likebshes nursing off me. I couldn’t work it right and when we got home from the hospital, we thought why are we doing this to ourselves? Just put the formula in the bottle and call it a day. After all FED is most important.
So that was it….4 days in and I was no longer going to breastfeed my baby. I told myself once my milk cane in I would pump and bottle feed. At least she would still get breast milk. One day later my milk came in and I started pumping. Pumping was hard too!! Trying to do it every 2-3 hours AND feeding it to her. I could never get ahead of it. I’d pump 3 ounces then she’d cry and I’d have to give it to her. How did women have fridges full of extra milk?
One More Try
One night, she woke up crying before I had pumped and I had 3 choices. Let her cry at 2am for 20 minutes while I pump. No. Give her formula. Maybe. Try latching her again. I gave latching a try. Omg, she started drinking. I could hear her little gulps and see her jaw move. I couldn’t believe it. I was breastfeeding!
From that moment on, we breastfed. At first, I pumped after each time I nursed her. I felt like all I did was nurse, pump, nurse, pump. After a while I got my supply up to about 3-4 ounces each breast AFTER I nursed her. So I started saving those in the fridge and freezer. One bottle would go in the fridge to use out and about, and one would go in the freezer to build up my stash.
Tested To My Limits
Since my milk took longer to come in, I got mastitis, an infection. My breasts swelled and were rock hard and I had golfball size lumps in my armpits. I had to go on antibiotics. Let me tell you that the mastitis was worse pain than my csection!!! The mastitis gave Olivia a yeast infection diaper rash and oral thrush. She then gave me thrush on my nipples and I would scream crying every time I had to latch her. Garret kept saying it’s ok to stop and just give her formula. But I kept just taking it day by day. Let me get through today, maybe I’ll quit tomorrow.
Liquid Gold
Before I knew it I had 6-7 bottles at a time in the fridge ready to use if I had to leave her, wanted a break from feeding her (great way for dad to bond by feeding) or if we ran errands and I didn’t want to nurse her. Or heck, even have a glass of wine now and then. 🙌🏻 I also had about 20+ bottles frozen in the freezer. These were liquid gold to me. It meant my freedom. I could leave her for more than 2 hours if needed, or not have to muse her in the backseat of my car. I cried so many times over “spilt milk” lol when I knocked over 7 ounces with no lid. Or they time Garret left 5 ounces on the counter after I pumped and asked him to put in the fridge.
Introducing Food
I thought once we introduced food we would start to taper down, and we did. I went from nursing 7-10 times a day to about 4-5. At 12 months we were down to just nursing at night, first thing in the morning, and rarely once in the daytime if she was just being super fussy. We tried cows milk but she didn’t really like it. Her Dr said since we were still nursing and giving her yogurt and cheese, the milk wasn’t a big deal.
Olivia is pretty attached to it. Especially to go down at night. She just screams till I latch her. Nothing else works. Not a song, rocking, story, nothing. During the day sometimes she comes up and hits my boobs and says “bubbas”. That’s our word for breastfeeding. Since she’s so attached, and it’s healthy for her and she doesn’t like milk, that’s why I keep going. She’s so smart and hardly ever gets sick and is such a happy baby so I know it’s what’s best for her. I don’t mind the sacrifice for it (or the 500 calories burned either).
Her Dr said she will eventually wean herself. We just can’t bring ourselves to do the cry it out method and I’ve already cut out all unnecessary feedings.
While some may think it’s nuts (believe me I’m NO hippy dippy granola mom) I feel grateful and lucky I’ve been able to give her this gift for so long and I think nay negative comments are probably out of guilt for not breastfeeding. But honestly, there’s nothing wrong with either. I was a formula fed baby. Garret was breastfed. I think a fed baby is the most important.
At this point, although I don’t see an end in sight, I know I won’t breastfeed forever. I’m just waiting for her to naturally wean herself and she will.
Any mamas have any tips on weaning?? Leave me a comment!
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Protein Powder Is for Everyone
Protein Powder Is for Everyone
And it will make you look like the best version of yourself—whether that's "The Rock, flexing" or "Gosling in a henley".
October 24, 2017 at 02:00AM
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Monday, October 23, 2017
Meet The People Who Believe The Fluoride In Your Water Is Poisoning You
Meet The People Who Believe The Fluoride In Your Water Is Poisoning You
It turns out there's much more drama in the fluoride "truther" community than we thought — and at least one anti-fluoride expert is unhappy with the direction the movement is headed.
October 23, 2017 at 08:07PM
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What To Know About The Trump Administration's Efforts To Prevent A Teen Immigrant From Getting An Abortion
What To Know About The Trump Administration's Efforts To Prevent A Teen Immigrant From Getting An Abortion
"Jane Doe" is fifteen weeks pregnant and counting. The Department of Health and Human Services is fighting a legal battle to stop her from terminating her pregnancy.
October 23, 2017 at 02:48PM
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What If You Never Brushed Your Teeth?
What If You Never Brushed Your Teeth?
It would be far, far worse than just a case of bad breath.
October 23, 2017 at 01:49PM
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Italian Scientists Report Patient Who Sweats Blood
Italian Scientists Report Patient Who Sweats Blood
The 21-year-old patient entered a medical ward following three years of bleeding from her palms and face.
October 23, 2017 at 01:08PM
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The Family That Built an Empire of Pain
The Family That Built an Empire of Pain
The Sackler dynasty's ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars — and millions of addicts.
October 23, 2017 at 09:56AM
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The Bridges of Acadia National Park
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What to Eat While Breastfeeding
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Sunday, October 22, 2017
For These Veterans, Growing Pot Isn't Just A Job, It's A Cause
For These Veterans, Growing Pot Isn't Just A Job, It's A Cause
For veterans learning to cultivate marijuana through a Los Angeles grower's internship program, it's personal. They want to push for medical cannabis to become an option for veterans with PTSD.
October 22, 2017 at 06:24PM
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Saturday, October 21, 2017
In Praise of Sitting While You Pee
In Praise of Sitting While You Pee
Guys, gather round and listen up. I must impart some wisdom that will seem obvious in hindsight but may just change your outlook on life: You are allowed to sit down to pee.
October 21, 2017 at 11:35AM
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A Visit to Longwood Gardens
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Can We End Aging?
Can We End Aging?
"Aging is neither mystical nor inevitable and we may be able to stop it or delay it in your lifetime."
October 21, 2017 at 09:24AM
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When you get a stitch in your side, what's really going on?
When you get a stitch in your side, what's really going on?
Doctors still don’t know what causes it, or how to stop it.
October 21, 2017 at 07:21AM
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Friday, October 20, 2017
Happy Sweet 16 to Dylan's Candy Bar
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Can a mother really have INSUFFICIENT or NO MILK
Infants who are not exclusively breastfed are 14 times more likely to die due to diarrhea, 3 times more likely to die of respiratory infection, and twice as likely to die of other infections than an exclusively breast-fed child. Hence, a mother’s concern of insufficient or no milk needs to be addressed with utmost care and empathy.
Did you know that only ONE in a thousand mothers may not be able to breastfeed. The so-called lactation failure is very very rare among mothers. So practically there is no such thing as insufficient milk or no milk, but unfortunately all the important people in a mother’s life including husband, mother, mother-in-law, pediatrician or even the newborn are ignorant of or refuse to accept this fact.
The complaint of “insufficient milk” is just a wrong perception of the mother, fostered by :
- Mother’s uncertainty about her capacity to feed her baby properly. New-age mothers do not have first-hand experience of seeing successful breastfeeding and cannot have enough conviction in the process. Even the slightest doubt or difficulty can be discouraging.
- No knowledge about the normal behavior of a baby (who usually nurses frequently)
- Negative opinions of significant persons -often in Indian households, mother or mother-in-law who has not breastfed her own children does not particularly encourage breastfeeding. Sometimes they induce doubts in the mother’s mind every time the baby cries or is uneasy.
The reasons why a mother feels that she has insufficient milk are because the baby cries often, wakes up frequently, demands frequent feeds, or is irritable.
It is important to discuss with the mother signs that enough milk is being supplied :
- Weight gain of 500–1000 gm/month
- passing urine at least 6–8 times/day is definitely getting enough milk
The following signs indicate that an infant is not receiving enough milk in the first weeks of life:
- Weight loss greater than 10% of the birth weight, not regaining birth weight up to 2 weeks of life,
- No urinary output for 24 hours,
- Absence of yellow stools in the first week and
- clinical signs of dehydration
Crying among babies is a natural response to express all kinds of feelings of discomfort. Colic pains, extreme heat or cold, blocked nose, new caregiver, unclean caregiver, time of the day, etc are some of the trivial triggers for crying in a baby.
Lactation insufficiency is a public health concern, as the use of breast milk substitutes increases the risk of morbidity and mortality among infants in developing countries, and these supplements are the most common cause of malnutrition.
References:
Sultana A, Rahman KU, manjula SM 2013 CLINICAL UPDATE AND TREATMENT OF LACTATION INSUFFICIENCY. Medical Journal of Islamic World Academy of Sciences 21:1, 19-28, http://ift.tt/2yCrvs7
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New Study Casts Doubt on Diagnosis of Adult-Onset A.D.H.D.
Your Thigh Bone Is Stronger Than Steel, And Other Weird Facts About The Human Body
Your Thigh Bone Is Stronger Than Steel, And Other Weird Facts About The Human Body
You can never blow out all of the air in your lungs, your stomach is never empty, and human bodies will never not be crazy.
October 20, 2017 at 11:01AM
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Pollution linked to 9 million deaths worldwide in 2015, study says
Pollution linked to 9 million deaths worldwide in 2015, study says
In 2015, nearly one in six deaths, an estimated nine million worldwide, was related to pollution in some form — air, water, soil, chemical or occupational pollution, according to a new report.
October 20, 2017 at 10:47AM
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