We just discovered some on our dd1 last night. Bah! I'm sure hoping the newborn doesn't get this. When we went to the pharmacy they said that there was a manufacturer's shortage on the otc med. They're going to call around and round up enough for our family and the family we're living with at the moment. I gotta say though that I can't think of an easier parasite to deal with. Tell me your wormy stories.

I make 40 pounds of sauerkraut at a time in a couple of 5 gallon pails. We can finish this off within a couple of months. I shred the cabbage, add about 2-2.5% salt by weight (40lbs=18.1kg=18100g, so... add about 360g of salt or a bit more if you like it saltier). I scrunch it up in a clean rubbermaid bin until everything is wet and then transfer it to the buckets. I cover the kraut with a plate and a sterilized river rock. The next day I check to see if the brine has risen above the plate. If it has then I leave it for a couple of weeks until it tastes fermented. If the brine is below the surface then I add some salt water, 1Tbsp/litre until it's above the surface and then I leave it. It's really not scary. Consider all the Russian, Ukrainian and Polish peasants that live on this stuff. If they can do it then you can too. :) mmmmmm.... I need to buy some cabbage.

I've got some baby weight to lose once I'm out of the immediate post-partum period, probably 20-30 pounds. I really like the no-s diet (no sweets, no seconds, no snacks). It's just so practical and easy to continue long term. I lost weight with it awhile back. I think that what really works about the method is that you're forced to see all that you're eating in one huge pile because of the no seconds rule coupled with no snacks. When I first started I would heap my plate so full because I knew that I had to sustain myself until the next meal. It was embarrassing. I pretty quickly started cutting it down my portions a little at a time just because I could see how crazy it was. Sometime I do cheat with the snacks but I always try to visualize adding that snack to one of the meals of the day. Alternatively, I decrease the meal anticipating a snack a bit later. It works pretty well for me.

One thing that I do is look at the labels. When I see 16g of sugar I convert that in my mind to 4tsp of sugar. My understanding is that 4g sugar is equivalent to 1tsp of sugar. You can then count up your teaspoons per day from either processed foods or homemade foods. You can even do this for foods like apples. A quick google search tells me that 1 medium apple has 19g of sugar. That's almost 5 tsps of sugar. You could alternatively count the grams of sugar through the day and convert in your head at the end of the day to give yourself a mental picture. I like mental pictures. I do this with fat when I'm dieting. I imagine 20 pounds of butter in a pile and tell myself that that volume of fat is packed across my body under my skin. It's a pretty impressive way to motivate me to lose that weight. I was just asking my dh today to install a nutrition tracker for me. I love the nitty gritty details too. I need the tracker right now though for the vitamin and mineral tracking.

That is really sad. I hope that she can find a good home. My parents are raising three of their grandchildren (and caring for my disabled brother). I suspect that as they age they're not going to be able to keep up with the job. Probably one of my siblings will take them in but I'm not sure if any of them will be up for it. I would take them in but our lifestyle is SO different that I'm not sure it would work out very well.

Just had a thought... Is it your youngest son that she's forgetting? Could it be that in her culture the oldest boy gets the attention and gifts?

My grandparents used to send me and my sisters bday money every year. They would routinely forget someone each year and more often then not it was my middle sister. My parents solution was to just have us divide up each cheque as it came in so that over the course of the year everything came out equal. My middle sister really didn't mind because she didn't have a relationship with my grandparents so I don't think that she felt slighted.

Every time I'm menstruating or post birth I long for a bidet. They just seem like they would solve soooo many problems in life.

I'll pray.

I'll pray.

I have two friends that had their final babies at 47yo and but turned out to be happy endings. I agree with a previous poster that babies in your 40s was probably much more common in the past. I just birthed a baby a week ago and dh is already trying to guess how many more we might have. We're at 8, I'm 37yo and he's guessing 4 more! We'll see...

Neat! My 14yo ds will think that this is great. He already has a transformer that he scavenged from a microwave that he was trying to make an arc welder with. He likes anything that is powerful or explosive so this will be right up his alley. I'll share it with him when he comes inside.

I'm confused how that would work. Doesn't mayo melt when it gets hot or have I just been making homemade mayo for so long that I forget how fake, commercial, mayo acts?

I yell sneeze too but only when they're allergy induced. The allergy induced sneezees just come out with such a force that they seem to go through my vocal chords in a different way then a cold related sneeze. I really can't help it. I feel like a lunatic when I sneeze like this. Anybody have a loud hiccupper in their house? Those can be pretty crazy too.

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You can detatch the trap under the sink and clear it out manually. We had to this recently when ds6 rinsed out an aquarium and sent all the blue rocks down the drain. Another time we did it when oldest ds was little and we'd given him a travel vaccination that was in pill form. When he tried to swallow it he ended up spitting it down the sink. The $100 pill was well worth fishing out!

I just wanted to pop in for a minute and introduce our newest edition. She was born this morning at 3:20, weighing 3.3kg (7lb4oz) after 3 hours of labour. We're both doing as well as could be expected. And the name... after much deliberation we finally settled on Irene Perpetua. Irene both satisfied my love for old names and fit our virtues theme. Irene is dervied from the Greek word for peace. Perpetua was quite a remarkable, very early Christian martyr. And now a gratuitous baby picture:

Alright, I'm sorry. I should have dug even further. The studies that I noticed still have issues but I'm sorry that I didn't look into that more before saying something.

How about Happy New Years! Explore New Ways for New Days!

We've done b-day bumps here. Basically, one person take the child's arms, another their legs, and then they are bumped up and down on the floor for the count of their age. It's all in fun and nobody gets hurt.

I looked over the Forbes link and tracked down the studies that the author was referring to. One of the studies was about the risk of mortality in older women that took multivitamins. The problem is that it was an observational study not an RTC. You would need to account for the question of why all these ladies were taking multivitamins in the first place. Maybe they were taking them more than the general population because they felt sick or were sick in some way. I more ludicrous version of a study like this would be to look at 50000 hospital admission and then to suggest that going to hospital increases your mortality rate. The other study that was sited was looking at RTC data but it was about the increase of mortality due to prostate cancer in healthy men that took multivitamins. I didn't look very closely at this study but you really would need to ask whether or not this had any relevance to women at all and whether or not the all-causes mortality rate was affected at all. In other words, maybe a man's risk of prostate cancer increases by 0.5% but they're chance of dying of any other cause decreases by 15%. Studies can be seriously misleading without closer examination. Media (like Forbes) is going to do the job of filtering the study results for you and this is often done by journalists rather than scientists or statisticians. It's prudent to always hunt down the study yourself and discern whether or not the results are clinically relevant (ie. whether or not they should change your actions). Maybe you did this and came to some other conclusions about the studies. I'd like to hear your thoughts if you did.

I'm going to need to buy a new brand soon too. What makes one multi-vitamin better than another in your opinions?

I do know this but I think that some people use the x as a way of removing Christ from Christmas, not in a conspiracy sort of way though. I actually don't celebrate Christmas so it really doesn't bother me one way or another. I'm not one of those people. :D

I would have guessed that it was like xmas. Maybe it's a way of removing "holy" from holiday to make Christmas more secular.