LadyMama in the Jewish Standard!

http://www.jstandard.com/supplement/item/19207

Check out LadyMama Mimi Hecht on the cover of The Jewish Standard's "About Our Children" magazine! Click on the link to check out the article and read about LadyMama and some other fab mama bloggers!

Too fat for the OB?

Some ob-gyns in South Florida turn away overweight women

 In a nation with 93 million obese people, a few ob-gyn doctors in South Florida now refuse to see otherwise healthy women solely because they are overweight.

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Autism Study a Fraud

Study Linking Vaccines to Autism Is "Fraudulent"

By Alice Park Thursday, January 6, 2011 

It's unfortunate but true that sometimes the hard facts of science don't turn out to be so grounded in reality after all. Scientific fraud is certainly not new, but manipulation of medical data is always troubling, and potentially deadly, for the public.

That's the case with a controversial 1998 paper published in the Lancet by Andrew Wakefield, a former intestinal specialist at Royal Free Hospital in London. This week, the editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) penned a commentary calling the study “an elaborate fraud,” and accompanied the charge with an in-depth study exposing apparent manipulations of the data by Wakefield to bolster his argument that the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine was linked to autism

Contunue reading here! 

Why We Don't Do Family Dinner (babble.com)

Why We Don’t Do Family Dinner

Meal-planning in a house with little kids

by Bari Nan Cohen   |  November 22, 2010

“The kids need to eat at six,” she would say, “So I always tell Robert that if he isn’t in the door by the time we sit down, his plate will be in the microwave.”When I was growing up, my best friend’s mom used to roll her eyes a bit (good-naturedly, of course) at my family’s dinner habits. Why? Because we waited for my father to get home from work before we ate. My best friend’s mom, Mrs. T, like most parents, fed her kids at 6 p.m. on the dot.

To me, the child of a family whose dinner hour was as established as a pile of quicksand, this seemed like a great policy. My mother swears we didn’t start waiting for my dad to come home to start dinner until my sister and I were old enough to hold out until 7:30, so I’ll take her word for it. But when I had my own kids and started listening to other moms discuss the gyrations they put themselves (and their kids) through in order to have dinner at an hour when everyone (read: Dad) was home, it quite frankly made me question their sanity.

Finish reading article here.

Like It Or Not, We're Flying With You

By Mimi Hecht 

"I'm sorry we're not the angelic, no-crying mom-and-child duo that exists in your dreams."

This week, a report on the increasing demand for child-free or family-only flights was featured in the travel section of the New York Times. The article, which would have been better placed in the comedy section, details the complaints of fliers with a growing in-flight fear: babies and kids. Their suggestion? Kick the families off and give them their own flight. 


Oh, the absurdity! 

To all the travelers that can't handle even a dose of the discomfort that comes with having babies and kids on your flight, I have this to say:

1) You were once a baby. Don't forget that. Your mother once dragged your crying and dirty butt through all kinds of situations, many which involved embarrassing herself in front of non-understanding strangers while you threw a total fit because of discomfort, hunger...or simple boredom! So please, stop looking at me like you've been this old grump your whole life...we all know you wore diapers once, too.

Why Motherhood can be a Pain (Herald Sun)

Here's some validation for the struggling new mom!

Why Motherhood Can Be A Pain

For devout Jews, a zone of privacy in the sheitel (LA Times)

For devout Jews, a zone of privacy in the sheitel

Sheitel macher Chani Wuensch makes wigs for married women in the Hasidic community, who are bound by rules of modesty to cover their hair.

http://www.latimes.com/features/image/la-ig-wigs-20101031,0,7976836.story

Mimi's Column: Bigger Brain is Bogus, "Baby Brain" is Real

Bigger Brain is Bogus, "Baby Brain" is Real

By Mimi Hecht

Research Shmesearch. 

I mean, usually I'm all for it. I respond pronto when the "baby people" research children's medicines and make necessary recalls. Or when bored mothers spend hours researching, on my behalf, the best new baby gadgets. I enthusiastically concurred when research studies concluded that redheads are more fun (yes, I have a redhead). In all these cases, and hundreds more, research is a mother's best friend. In fact, we love to pull out our affinity for research when a fellow mother makes a claim about a philosophy or product. 

We're like, "Hmm, I dunno, I have to research that." 

Have a baby, and a smarter brain!

Have a baby, and a smarter brain! | TopNews United Kingdom

WomenToGo protest targets sex-trade in Israel

Oliver Weiken / EPA

Models wear price tags as they sit behind the window of a 'WomenToGo' concept store in a shopping mall in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 19. The display is part of a protest initiative against illegal prostitution and human trafficking in the country.

Oliver Weiken / EPA

A model wears price tags on her wrist as she along with other models and actresses poses in the window of a 'WomenToGo' concept store in a shopping mall in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 19.

Drinking Red Wine while Pregnant

"Another study has shown that drinking red wine during pregnancy can also help in the development of the child. It has been observed that such children score better in vocabulary tests and also are able to identify shapes, letters, colors, numbers, etc. better than the other children, when they are 18 months old."

Read more:

Drinking Red Wine while Pregnant

More Men See Marriage, Family as the 'Ultimate Male Status Symbol'

By Elissa Strauss

Well it looks like the emasculated husbands who appear in the bulk of beer and car ads aren’t too representative of the typical American male. Men, it turns out, actually like being married and having a family.

Continue reading:

More Men See Marriage, Family as the 'Ultimate Male Status Symbol' – The Sisterhood – Forward.com

Drowning looks different than you think

Think drowning involves screaming, gasping, and flailing? Think it’s easy to notice someone drowning? Well, you’re wrong.

What every parent must know about drowning:

Drowning looks different than you think - Parenting on Shine

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Female-only megila readings growing in popularity

Female-only megila readings growing in popularity

Want passionate kids?

Parents who want their children to discover a passion for music, sports, or other hobbies should follow a simple plan: Don't pressure them [msnbc.com]

Full article here.

Looking for Love? Perfume May Backfire

When it comes to attracting a man, natural scent works best

More Incentive for a Strict Bedtime

Strict bedtimes may fend off depression in kids

Teens who stay up past midnight at higher risk for serious mental issues

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