Naomi Watts is STILL pregnant and looking awesome!! She was seen at a favourite celebrity hangout – The Brentwood Country Market looking at fabric.
Her bump is still up pretty high which makes me think she’s having a girl. I have recently predicted a boy for Jenna and Bridget.
I guess we will see. She can’t have too much time left. I honestly thought that we would have an announcement by now…
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After arriving 7 weeks early last month, the Masche sextuplets will be going home one at a time. Jenny Masche, the babies mom, told the Today Show this morning that Blake will be coming home today to be followed by Baily in a day or two. Cole would have been the first but he has to undergo surgery to correct a type of hernia at his belly button. Hopefully, they will have him home by Tuesday.
“I’m kind of lucky that I get one at a time,” Jenny said. “I get one baby for a few days, then I’ll have two babies. We’ll kind of wean me into the process.”
The other three babies — Grant, Savannah and Molli — are still partially dependent on feeding tubes and must remain in the hospital until they are able to “suck, swallow and breathe at the same time,” Jenny said. All can take partial feedings orally, but must finish feeding by tube.
Last week I updated Jenny’s condition after she suffered acute heart failure several hours after giving birth. On her blog she said that her eyesight wasn’t 100% and that she was undergoing vestibular therapy that would last for the 4 weeks. At that time reading was difficult and she was unable to drive.
Today, she says that she is 90% better, which is good to hear. She will need to be at 150% in order to keep up with her babies.
The whole family has pitched in to help with feedings and diaper changes…even grampa. Jenny’s mom says that “these are the first diapers he’s changed in his whole life.”
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: Easy-Bake Ovens
Units: About 1 million
Manufacturer: Easy-Bake, a division of Hasbro, Inc., of Pawtucket, R.I
Hazard: Young children can insert their hands into the oven’s front opening, and get their hands or fingers caught, posing entrapment and burn hazards.
Incidents/Injuries: Since the repair program announced in February, Easy-Bake has received 249 reports of children getting their hands or fingers caught in the oven’s opening, including 77 reports of burns, 16 of which were reported as second and third-degree burns. Easy-Bake also received one report of a serious burn that required a partial finger amputation to a 5-year-old girl.
Description: The Easy-Bake Oven is a purple and pink plastic oven that resembles a kitchen range with four burners on top and a front-loading oven. “Easy Bake” is printed on the front of the oven. Model number 65805 and “Hasbro” are stamped into the plastic on the back of the oven. This recall includes all units with the retrofit kit. The Easy-Bake Oven is an electric toy and is not recommended for children under eight years of age. Ovens sold before May 2006 are not included in this recall.
Sold at: Toys “R” Us, Wal-Mart, Target, KB Toys and other retailers nationwide from May 2006 through July 2007 for about $25.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Caregivers should immediately take the recalled Easy-Bake Oven away from children, and call Easy-Bake for instructions on how to return the toy oven for a voucher towards the purchase of another Hasbro product.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Easy-Bake at (800) 601-8418 anytime, or visit the firm’s Web site at www.easybake.com
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Playskool Toddler “NoSpill” Sippy Cups
Units: About 84,000
Importer: CVS/pharmacy, of Woonsocket, R.I.
Hazard: Young children can chew through the plastic spout of the sippy cup, which can pose a choking hazard.
Incidents/Injuries: The firm has received 36 reports of toddlers chewing through the plastic spout of the sippy cup, resulting in one choking incident and three near-choking incidents. No injuries have been reported.
Description: This recall involves the Playskool Toddler “NoSpill” Sippy Cup. The 8-ounce cup is clear plastic with red trim, red and yellow handles, and a yellow tip; blue trim, blue and green handles and a green tip; or purple trim, purple and aqua handles, and an aqua tip. The serial number of the recalled cups is 382814, which appears on the back of the packaging.
Sold by: CVS stores nationwide from September 2006 through April 2007 for about $5.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should stop their children from using the cup immediately and return it to any CVS store for a refund, or throw the product away and bring a proof of purchase of the product to any CVS store for a refund.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact CVS/pharmacy toll-free at (866) 434-0098 between 8:30 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, visit CVS/pharmacy’s Web site at http://www.cvs.com, or e-mail the company at playskoolinfo@cvs.com
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It is not uncommon for a mom to be put on bed rest at some point during their pregnancy. Nearly one in five women in the U.S. will be asked to kick up and relax for a period that can last from a few days to a number of month. Being ordered to stay off your feet is a doctors way of slowing down an active mom when he thinks that the pregnancy is in danger.
Your doctor/OB may recommend a period of bed rest at any point during pregnancy if:
The term ‘bed rest’ is vague because there are, in fact, many stages of bed rest and different rules for each stage.
Some moms are free to move about the house, as long as you avoid lifting children and doing heavy housework. Depending on the demands of your job, you may even be able to continue working.
In other cases, the guidelines are stricter. You may need to remain in a sitting or reclining position most of the time, only getting up to use the toilet or shower. You may not be allowed to work or do even light household chores until the baby is born.
If your health care provider prescribes total bed rest, you may need to lie on your side at all times — including when you eat. Personal hygiene may be limited to sponge baths and a bed pan.
Bed rest is usually done at home. In a few cases, however, bed rest requires hospitalization.
Researchers are still trying to determine the full benefits of bed rest. What they do know is that it decreases pressure on the cervix, which may help stop preterm contractions or vaginal bleeding. Bed rest also increases blood flow to the placenta, which can boost your baby’s growth.
Women who were previously active find bed rest boring and depressing. Darline Turner-Lee, a nationally certified physician assistant, an American College of Sports Medicine Exercise Specialist® and certified perinatal fitness instructor developed a video designed to take women through a series of gentle yet effective movements .
The benefits are said to be maintenance of muscle tone and physical strength, improved circulation, reduction in the risk of leg clots leading to strokes, heart attacks and pulmonary embolisms, increased endurance during labor,more effective pushes during delivery and decreased recovery time postpartum.
Having to stay in one spot for days, weeks or months can set an expectant mom on the road to insanity. Here are a few ideas of things to keep you occupied while sitting in bed 24 hours a day.
- start a journal chronicling your pregnancy – and your bed rest
- start a family tree that you can share with your child someday
- firm up your baby-name choices; use books and websites for ideas
- organize photo albums
- read anything – newspapers, magazines, classic novels, the latest bestsellers, compilations of fiction or poetry; you could even revisit some of your favorite childhood stories or try out some books from the library for your little one
- watch rented videos/DVDs or taped TV shows
- answer letters or correspondence
- write thank-you cards if you’ve already had a baby shower; if not, start addressing the envelopes to people (friends and family) whom you know will probably give gifts
- build an email and phone list of people to call when the baby comes, if you haven’t already done so
- start a calendar of important dates to remember (birthdays, anniversaries, etc.)
*Always check with your doctor before starting any fitness programs while on bed rest*
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Bridget Moynahan is staying fit during her last few days of pregnancy. Page six is reporting that Bridget is due to give birth on Friday to a little boy…I also think she is having a boy as well, I called it 2 weeks ago.
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Developing fetuses are very sensitive to any environmental changes. The stress hormone cortisol can cross the placental barrier when you are under a high degree of stress, and may affect your baby’s brain development — specifically memory.
Chronic mild stress in pregnant mothers may increase the risk that their offspring will develop cerebral palsy — a group of neurological disorders marked by physical disability — according to new research in mice. The results may be the first to demonstrate such effects of stress on animals in the womb.
The new study, led by Pierre Gressens, MD, PhD, of Inserm in France, used a mouse model to test whether exposure to minimal but repeated stress throughout gestation would make the offspring more vulnerable to brain lesions similar to those observed in children with cerebral palsy. The findings are published in the July 11 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Inserm, l’Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, is the French public biomedical research agency.
“These findings are consistent with growing evidence that constant stress, even minimal, can have a major impact on the quality of life,” says Victoria Luine, PhD, distinguished professor of psychology at New York’s Hunter College, who did not participate in the research.
In the study, the scientists adjusted the normal cycle of light and dark that the pregnant mice were accustomed to for half of the mice, subjecting them to a mild level of stress. Then the researchers exposed the brains of the developing fetuses to injury. When the brains of the young mice were examined on birth, Gressens and his team found that the offspring born from stressed mothers showed brain lesions about twice as big as those in offspring of unstressed mothers.
“Determining the impact of gestational stress on the incidence of cerebral palsy would be of paramount interest,” says Gressens. “Limiting stress during human pregnancy might prove to be a cost-efficient way to reduce the human, emotional, social and economic burden of cerebral palsy.”
Ways to reduce stress during pregnancy:
Exercise regularly, it will help release physical and emotional tension. Yoga is great for reducing stress and improving a pregnant moms overall health. It focuses on the mind, body and spirit and is considered therapeutic
Reduce caffeine intake and try to eat a healthy diet.
Learn to recognize when your muscles are tense, and release them. Focus on your breathing, taking slow, steady, deep breaths from your abdomen rather than your upper chest.
Identify the personal sources of stress in your life and look for ways to eliminate them.
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