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Sharing the best way to break bad habits of being unhappy
Keep busy and you will be more happier.
I heard medically it takes four months to break a habit.
Did you know it can become a habit to think about sad things all the time?
So just think about happy things for 4 months. And the old habit of thinking of sad things will go away forever.
Now remember think about only happy thoughts for the next four months.
Starting TODAY! If bad thought come into your mind just toss them out right away!
Pick out some of these below or some that you can think of and relace bad thoughts will one of these one at a time.
Start today. Replace them with HAPPY THOUGHTS ONLY!
Try these:
Something like the smell of hot apply pie.
Picture a pretty flower.
The smell of good dinner cooking.
See a baby face the first time it is born.
How good it feels to have a good night sleep.
How innocent & happy a young child feels.
How pround you felt when you did good in school.
The feel of soft fabric.
The smell of springtime.
Kind words that were said to you.
The site of fresh snow on the trees.
The wind blowing the branches of bare tree limbs.
The site of a beautiful sky.
How a puppy dog will love you as a best friend.
The praise you received from above.
And your visit to Swaphandmedowns.com. smile.
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Parenting tips for new parents
How can I get my infant to sleep at night?
Good news: The sleeping pattern of your infant this will change as your baby grows and begins to adapt to his new world.
At the time of birth infants need to feed every 2-4 hours. At first, these short stretches of 3 to 4 hours of sleep may be getting you tired out. Mater of fact it is tiring you out! Since it is interfering with your sleep pattern you will need to have patience. It is always important that you rest when your infant is sleeping.
Remember it is not your fault the baby is not sleeping at night. This is what most infants do. It is important that your infant be well fed and cuddled.
If you have a job or/and a family to take care of this can be draining. Ask your employer if you can have a few weeks off from your job. Ask your family to work with you so you can get your rest. Have your family members including siblings to help with the household chores. Father’s and siblings may feel left out so remember to offer them a special time during the day to spend time with them.
Infants need about 16 of sleep over a day. They will wake up for feeding about ever 2 – 4 hours. Mostly over tired infants that do not sleep well during the day often have a harder time sleeping at night.
Practice sleeps habits earlier. After a few weeks try to avoid changing the infants diaper in the middle of the night and try to avoid stimulation during nighttime feedings. This will help set the rules that nighttime is not playtime but sleep time.
Finally, by 2 months most babies are sleeping 6 to 8 hours through the night. If your baby isn't sleeping through the night by about 4 months, talk with your baby's doctor about how to amend this. Speak to your doctor right away if your baby cannot be rouse from sleep and seems uninterested in feeding time.
My baby is fussy what can I do? Studies have shown that babies who are carried around during the day have less colic and fussiness. You might want to look into buying a baby sling. You can never spoil an infant by holding and cuddling them.
Common Sense Makes Sense.
Never allow anyone to smoke in your home or around your children. It is more than a bad habit – it can be harmful to your baby’s health. Studies have shown that secondhand smoke may be linked to SIDS. (Sudden infant death syndrome)
The AAP recommends that healthy infants be placed on their backs to sleep, not on their stomachs. The incidence of SIDS has lesson by more than 40% since that recommendation was first made in 1992. It is highly recommended that all premature infants sleep only on their backs.
Always keep your baby’s safety in mind. Always putting your baby in the crib for sleeping will help signal to the infant that this is the place for sleep. Keep in mind that this is the safest thing you can do.
By now you are feeling sleep deprived right?
It helps when feeding your newborn to sit in a chair for feeding time to avoid falling asleep in your bed.
Furthermore, studies have shown a higher risk of SIDS in households where the baby slept in the bed with the parents. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recommend against bringing your infant to sleep in the bed with you for safety reasons. Avoid feeding your infant in bed at all times.
Never tie anything around your baby’s neck including hats, baby bibs and so on.
Always make sure your child’s crib meets safety standards. Never put anything in the crib that may cause harm. Including pillows, toys, blankets or sharp objects.
Last of all, congratulations to the new parents!
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Women delay childbearing into their late 30s and 40s risk infertility
LONDON, Sept. 16-The vast number of women who have postponed childbearing into early middle age has led to a public health threat that physicians need to address, say three prominent British obstetrician-gynecologists here.
Women who delay childbearing into their late 30s and 40s risk infertility, miscarriage, complicated pregnancies, delivering children more vulnerable to illness, and, ultimately, immense heartbreak, according to the authors of an editorial in the Sept. 17 issue of the British Medical Journal.
These are all risks that physicians could help reduce by encouraging women who want children to pursue a family during their reproductive prime, wrote Susan Bewley, M.D., of St. Thomas' Hospital, Melanie Davies, M.D., of University College Hospital, and Peter Braude, M.D. of Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' School of Medicine.
Dr. Bewley chairs the ethics committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Dr. Davies is president elect of the Medical Women's Federation, and Dr. Braude chairs the scientific advisory committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
"A major preventable cause of this ill health and unhappiness is unacknowledged," they wrote. "Public health agencies target teenagers and ignore the epidemic of pregnancy in middle age. Doctors and health care planners need to grasp this threat to public health and support women to achieve biologically optimal childbearing."
This optimal reproductive window occurs between the ages of 20 and 35, yet many women delay starting a family to climb the career ladder, the authors wrote. However, this delay comes at a price, since age-related fertility problems increase after age 35 and dramatically so after age 40.
"We do not understand reproductive senescence, but there are no immediate prospects of treatments to reverse it," the authors wrote. The availability of current assisted reproduction treatments and technologies "may lull women into infertility while they wait for a suitable partner and concentrate on their careers and achieving security and a comfortable living standard."
The authors cited the many risks associated with postponed pregnancy beginning with pre-pregnancy. As women get older, they wrote, they have a greater risk of developing pelvic infections, endometriosis, or premature menopause. Weight also tends to rise with age, which can adversely affect fertility. Furthermore, there is also a greater risk for breast cancer, they wrote.
Infertility treatments, such as in vitro fertilization, may help older women conceive, the authors said, "but this expensive, invasive treatment has high failure rates." More than 70% of women undergoing a cycle of IVF fail to have a live birth. That figure jumps to 90% for women over age 40, according to the authors.
Once an older woman becomes pregnant, the authors said, the hurdles ahead include a greater risk of miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and multiple fetuses. Older women are also more likely to be obese, take medication, and have a chronic medical condition, such as depression, hypertension, arthritis, or even cancer.
The risk of pregnancy complications also increases with age. The hazards include preeclampsia, preterm ruptured membranes, placenta previa, and hemorrhaging.
Increasing maternal age affects both mother and therefore her baby. For example, age, hypertension, and pregestational diabetes are independent risk factors for intrauterine growth restriction. There is also a greater risk of fetal and chromosomal abnormalities for babies born to older mothers, the authors noted.
Once it's time to deliver, older mothers face other obstacles. Emergency and elective cesareans are more likely for older mothers, which carry the risk of infection, thrombosis, later infertility, future cesareans, and placenta accreta. There are also greater risks of preterm birth, stillbirth, the need for neonatal intensive care, and neonatal death.
Delaying parenthood affects men, too. "Semen counts deteriorate gradually every year, and children of older men have an increased risk of schizophrenia and new mutation autosomal dominant disorders," such as Marfan's syndrome (The Marfan syndrome is a connective tissue disorder) and achondroplasia (Achondroplasia, a genetic disorder of bone growth evident at birth, is the most common growth related birth defect), the authors wrote.
Dr. Bewley and colleagues acknowledged that for individual women "a short delay poses little absolute risk." Most pregnancies in women over 35 have good outcomes, they added.
But, they added, small shifts in population distribution curves affect large numbers of women. Obstetricians and gynecologists, they said, "have seen dramatic changes in two decades alongside this demographic transformation and are witness to the resultant tragedies."
It's not the women's fault, they said. The difficulties lie with society, employers, and health planners.
Note: Fecundity declines around age 35 and drops dramatically around age 40 for women and older men may have male fertility problems.
Explain to youngsters that use of helmets while skateboarding and bicycling is cool.
Child seats and bicycle helmets are accomplishing their purposes. Explain to youngsters that use of helmets while skateboarding and bicycling is cool.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12 - Automobile child seats and bicycle helmets -- safety devices designed to save kids' lives -- apparently are doing just that.
In 1994, the mortality rate for trauma patients in the pediatric intensive care unit was about 3.7%, but by 2004 the rate had tumbled to about 2.2% (p=.0059), Richard Mink, M.D., of UCLA reported at the meeting of the Society of Critical Care Medicine here this week.
Primary source: 35th Society of Critical Care Medicine
Hairdressers & Bleached Blonds Be Alert to Bleach Agents
PAVIA, Italy, Nov. 25 - The bleaching agents used by hairdressers can cause occupational asthma and rhinitis, say researchers here.
The finding comes from an eight-year series study of 47 hairdressers who were referred to the allergy and immunology unit at the Scientific Institute of Pavia here, according to Gianna Moscato, M.D., head of the allergy unit.
The hairdressers -- mostly young women -- had been exposed to persulfate salts and other potential allergens for an average of seven years before they were referred because of asthma symptoms, Dr. Moscato and colleagues reported in the November issue of the journal Chest.
On the basis of a specific inhalation challenge, 24 of the patients were assessed as having occupational asthma, due in 21 cases to persulfate salts found in bleaching agents, to permanent hair dyes in two, and to latex in one.
Hair dye tip: Use less or none. Hair dye agents can be harmful. You look just lovely the way you are!
Eases fears that asthmatic children face years of deteriorating lung function
TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 15 - Preschoolers with asthma symptoms have their level of lung function set by the age of six and don't change much for at least 10 years, researchers here say.
The finding, derived from a long-term follow-up of 826 children in a population-based birth cohort here, eases fears that asthmatic children face years of deteriorating lung function, according to Wayne Morgan, M.D., of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center.
On the other hand, Dr. Morgan and colleagues said, the research strongly suggests that what happens during the first six years of life determines the expression of asthma and the level of lung function that will be achieved during childhood and into early adult life.
"If we're going to prevent it, we have to intervene earlier," said Dr. Morgan, who led the study. Results of the Tucson Children's Respiratory Study were published in the Nov. 15 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
"In some respects," Dr. Morgan said, "the transient wheezers are the lucky ones - they improve rather dramatically from infancy from six years and then they appear flat after that."
Nonetheless, he said, their lung function is actually low. Whether transient early wheezers are also predisposed to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is unknown. They would be at risk of causing further damage if, for instance, they start to smoke, he suggested.
While the late-onset wheezers have the same lung function as the never wheezers, he said, they have the same risk of asthmatic symptoms as the persistent wheezers at age 16 - about 50% of both groups reported wheezing during the previous year.
"The late onset wheezers ended up with just as much asthma as the persistent wheezers," he said. "Asthma delayed is not asthma denied."
How humdrum employees can be worked to death.
LONDON, Jan. 20- There's a plausible explanation for how humdrum employees can be worked to death.
Researchers here have found that employees with chronic work stress have more than twice the risk of having metabolic syndrome as their more laid back co-workers.
"A dose-response association exists between exposure to work stress and the metabolic syndrome," reported Tarani Chandola, D.Phil., and colleagues at University College London, today in the online version of the BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal.
"The study provides evidence for the biological plausibility of psychosocial stress mechanisms linking stressors from every day life with heart disease," the investigators wrote.
"Prolonged exposure to work stress may affect the autonomic nervous system and neuroendocrine activity directly, contributing to the development of the metabolic syndrome," the authors noted. "A case-control study showed that participants in the Whitehall II study with the metabolic syndrome had raised cortisol and normetanephrine output, and also had reduced variability in heart rate."
Workplace stress may also contribute to metabolic syndrome through cortisol-mediated effects on insulin metabolism, glucose tolerance, and lipid concentrations, they wrote.
Disclamer: Articles are of interest and not proven exact.
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