Just goes to show the rules of pregnancy are always changing. A new study followed pregnant moms and their babies for eight years tracking diet and health information. It would seem mothers who ate nut products every day (or almost every day) during pregnancy had children with up to a 52% greater chance of asthma symptoms like shortness of breath and wheezing.
Ironically, I love peanut butter, but didn’t eat that much during either pregnancy. Good for me. Good for my babies. Maybe I’m a good mommy after all. *wink*
For all those trying to figure out what is okay during pregnancy, you can cross the wonderful fats and protein of nuts off the list.
Nuts.
August 12th, 2008
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There are lots of times that I’m glad I’m a girl – okay all the time – but recently I realized that girls have it better in almost everything, even payment for bodily donations.
If the fliers on my car back in college are to be believed, sperm donation can earn you a few hundred bucks if you are degreed, attractive, tall, etc. The more desirable you are, the more you can earn from your donation. Of course if you’re short, dumb and ugly you can only make $50 or so, but that’s still quite a bit for something most boys do daily anyway.
Girls, though, can net thousands for egg donation. Of course, boys can donate sperm every day if you wanted to, and the same isn’t true for being an egg donor, but apparently you can make $6000 by donating eggs to a family looking for help with a baby. Not bad for a month’s work.
April 2nd, 2008
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When I had my oldest son, Jake, I was part of a very nifty HMO. I know HMO’s get a bad rep for lots of people, but as someone who never went to the doctor except to get my annual prescription of birth control pills and then to get routine maternity care (with ol’ Doc Hwang, who I love dearly), I LOVED it.
I paid a whopping total of $250 for the entire 9-10 months of pregnancy. That includes the five day hospital stay, scheduled delivery, anesthesia, etc…
I did it again, 26 months later with Brian. But this time, my maternity insurance was not as terrific. You see, my school district had switched to a PPO which meant I paid $3,000 for the same exact treatment and delivery. I was (and still am) NOT impressed. Obviously others pay much more, but coming off $250 with literally everything (except the baby) the same, it was most insulting.
October 28th, 2007
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