Self & Beauty
If your kid is getting ready for braces, brace your wallet
It was somewhere between being handed the oversized model of teeth and the shiny silver pen so I could sign the orthodontic contract that I sort of faded out a bit. The number that had just been mumbled so matter-of-factly was hanging in the air and I was feeling a tad faint. “Umm, excuse me, [...]
Celebrity maternity style varies by personality, body shape
Moms everywhere know this: When it comes to being pregnant, everybody carries differently. Nothing illustrates this better than the burgeoning bods of reality queen Kim Kardashian and future queen Kate Middleton (both reportedly scheduled to deliver around the same time). The latter is the envy of the pregnant population – carrying gracefully, all in her [...]
Poop in pools more common than you may think, CDC warns
Attention swimmers: More than half of the public pools tested in a new study contained bacterial evidence that someone may have pooped in the pool. Investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worked with state and local public health departments last summer to collect samples from pool filters at 161 pools in the [...]
Duke study finds Alzheimer’s markers in patients’ relatives
An amino acid commonly found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients has been discovered in the spinal fluid of people without dementia whose close relatives were diagnosed with the disease, according to a study led by Duke University researchers. The researchers also found people closely related to an Alzheimer’s patient were more likely to have [...]
The pointless pursuit of midsection perfection
There comes a time in every woman’s life when she takes stock of her bountiful blessings and astonishing good fortune and says, often aloud: Something’s gotta go. I decided on my abs. It was a fairly straightforward decision, since, in all honesty, I let them go years ago. In my early 30s, they housed a [...]
DIY Converse Nail Art Instructions
Want to impress those kids of yours with a stylish and fun nail art design? Here is a great idea that even I was able to accomplish!. My inspiration was this great channel on YouTube by Cutepolish. Here’s what I used. Black and white nails stripers,( These are the polishes with an extra thin long brush), [...]
Some mothers can’t breast-feed
After struggling to breast-feed her first two children, Nyssa Retter was determined to do better with her third. She gave birth without painkillers, which may make newborns slightly drowsy. She chose a free-standing birth center staffed with lactation-savvy midwives. She had skin-to-skin contact with her daughter immediately after birth and consulted with midwives when her [...]
Mother-daughter and the complicated bond of body image
Like many modern women, my identity all too often over the years has been wrapped up in how much I weigh, what size jeans I wear, and how big my derriere looks walking away. For amother of three, who has thrice gained 35-50 pounds and grown size EE breasts, this is the problem that keeps [...]
Easy Shamrock Nails
Here’s an easy DIY nail art idea perfect for St. Patrick’s Day! Supplies Needed: 2 different colors green nail polish (the lighter green pictured here is Mint Candy Apple by Essie) bobby pin or nail dotting tool, and toothpick clear topcoat small scrap piece of paper Directions: 1.) Paint two coats of your lighter background [...]
Child’s death inspires mother to help brain-injured babies
Ann Flood woke up shortly after 8 a.m. to the beep of the feeding tube machine in her daughter’s room. Sun rays bounced off the glistening ice outside and through her window as Ann rose, invigorated. She could not remember the last time she had slept so much and so well. Definitely not since Lauren’s [...]













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