...and also a bit scary.

http://www.breathingearth.net/
Co2 emissions, birth rate & death rate simulation

Button Your Eyes

Wouldnt work for me just now. My image was probably too big.

Adam Corolla's son hates Sesame Street...



FF to 3:30

Old Navy Recalls Stuffed Toys; Button Eyes Can Detach and Pose a Choking Hazard to Young Children

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, 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: Stuffed Animal and Creature Toys

Units: About 35,500 in the United States and 5,400 in Canada

Retailer: Old Navy LLC, of San Francisco, Calif.

Hazard: The stuffed toys have two button eyes that could detach from the toy, posing a choking hazard to young children.

Incidents/Injuries: None reported.

Description: The stuffed animal and creature toys are made out of cotton and have plastic button eyes. They come in a variety of styles, such as a rabbit, penguin and reindeer. The recalled toys and style numbers are listed below:

Type of Stuffed Toy and Style Number:

Brown Plaid Creature (Stubby Stuberson) 612756
Pink Striped Dove 600571
Grey Dog 600572
Hot Pink Creature (Lucy Toothy) 612800
White Dog (Dr. Poopsie) 612738
Brown Penguin 612672
Light Pink Rabbit 612671
Brown Reindeer 612728
Dark Pink Rabbit (Honey O'Bunny) 612806

The style number is located on a white label sewn into the side seam of the toy.

Sold at: Old Navy stores and on the Web at www.oldnavy.com from July 2008 through February 2009 for between $6 and $10.

Manufactured in: China

Remedy: Consumers should immediately take the recalled stuffed toy away from young children and return it to any Old Navy store for a full refund. If purchased online, contact Old Navy for instructions on returning the toy for a full refund. Consumers who return the toy before July 1, 2009 will also receive a $5 coupon toward a future Old Navy purchase.

Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Old Navy toll-free at (866) 580-9930 between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or between 12 p.m. and 7 p.m. ET on Saturday, visit the firm's Web site at www.oldnavy.com, or e-mail the firm at custserv@oldnavy.com

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_31470.aspx

'No God' Ads, Soon To Appear On TTC Vehicles, Spark Heated Debate
Thursday January 29, 2009
CityNews.ca Staff



"There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."

It's certainly not everyone's opinion, and it may or may not be yours - but if you're a transit user in this city you'll soon be seeing that message frequently.

It's part of a controversial ad campaign by the Toronto-based Freethought Association of Canada that has been approved by the TTC to appear on buses and inside subway cars.( Read more... )

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The funniest thing is seeing a person interviewed on the street being asked what they think about these ads.

"It's offensive...I think it's ridiculous."
Reporter: "Why is that?"
"Well to say there is no God...that's just...um....well, silly because there's OBVIOUSLY a God."
*crickets*

I'm convinced.

Mother sentenced in Welsh court for allowing 3-year-old to smoke

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

22/01/2009 7:10:00 PM

LONDON - A British woman has pleaded guilty to child cruelty for allowing her three-year-old to smoke in front of her.

Prosecutor Jonathan Rees says video taken by a mobile phone showed the small child popping a cigarette into his mouth, lighting it with a lighter and taking a drag. Rees told a court in the Welsh town of Merthyr Tydfil that the boy's mother, 24-year-old Kelly Marie Pocock, was sitting next to him and talking on the phone at the time.

The film was shot by Pocock's friend, Natasha Dudley, who showed the footage to social workers.

Judge John Curran said Thursday it was clear Pocock's child was a habitual smoker and called the situation appalling.

Pocock was given a 40-week suspended sentence.

http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/article/535310

A breastfeeding brouhaha has broken out at a York Region swimming facility.

At one end of Newmarket's AquaCenter Swim School pool is Cinira Longuinho, who wants Ontario's Human Rights Tribunal to investigate why she was asked to leave the water Oct. 24 while breastfeeding her 20-month-old daughter Camilla on the pool steps.

At the other end – and drowning in a sea of blogs, emails and protests – is pregnant AquaCenter owner Ellie Karkouti. She hired four security guards, not expecting them to show up in bulletproof vests, when Longuinho and her supporters threatened a "peaceful nursing protest" last Friday.

In between are a whole bunch of people who are quietly wondering why breastfeeding still causes such a flood of emotions and how things got so out of control, right in the midst of York Region's "Anytime, Anywhere" breastfeeding campaign.

"I believe in breastfeeding, just not in the pool," says pool owner Karkouti, 39, who is 17 weeks pregnant with her first child. "I gave her two options. I said I have comfortable chairs in the change room or the viewing gallery."

According to Karkouti, while salt and chlorine reduce dangerous bacteria in a pool, the water's still "filled with stuff that you can't kill – people's pee and sweat and body stuff is in there. Am I ever going to stick my baby's mouth on a breast that's been in a pool without cleaning it (first)? Never, ever."

Longuinho, 32, was chatting with a bunch of mothers and kids during their weekly, hour-long swim session at AquaCenter when her daughter became cranky. Rather than climb out of the warm water onto the cool deck, out of range of her friends, Longuinho started nursing Camilla on the stairs, with her breasts above water.

She claims Karkouti came up to her a few minutes later and gave her one option: the change room. "I didn't know what to do," says Longuinho. "I was embarrassed. In reality, I wanted to pretend that nothing had happened."

So she spent the last few minutes swimming with her daughter, then fed her in the change room and, later, her car, where she started to realize: "What happened was wrong. I knew that, based on the law, I had the right to breastfeed in a public place."

Longuinho, who emigrated from Brazil four years ago, says English isn't her first language and blames that, in part, for what happened next.

When friends expressed outrage – and her daughter's former pediatrician stressed there should be "no qualification" on where a mother feeds her child – Longuinho urged them to join her in a "peaceful protest for breastfeeding" at the AquaCenter last Friday. She says she simply intended to feed her child in the pool. But then details of the "protest" hit breastfeeding sites and blogs – and Karkouti's email inbox. Fearing that dozens of angry lactivists might show up at her pool, Karkouti contacted York Regional Police.

When it became clear they had no intention of sending uniformed officers, she says, Karkouti hired $400 worth of her own protection – four security guards who kept the 20 or so protesters, many of them children, at bay.

"I guess that's what they come with," Karkouti said yesterday of the Kevlar-clad guards. "I didn't even notice. All I thought was, `If I have 400 people trying to force their way in, what am I supposed to do?'"

Says Longuinho: "We weren't carrying signs or anything. The idea was to go and talk to her (Karkouti) and nurse in the pool. One of the guards even had handcuffs. I believe it was to intimidate us."

Karkouti was so concerned the protest might foul the water, forcing a costly cleanup or shutdown, she refused to let the group in.

Longuinho is pondering her next move. "What happened was wrong," she says. "I want to use it as an example for other mothers that they should not be afraid of breastfeeding, even in a pool."

It's far from the first time a lactating mother has been kicked out of a pool. After a number of "breastfeeding incidents" at municipal pools (this pool is privately owned), the Breastfeeding Action Committee of Edmonton urged governments to uniformly adopt breastfeeding-friendly regulations, saying there is no evidence the practice is unsafe for babies, their mothers or others in the pool.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission says breastfeeding women can't be prohibited from feeding their babies in public, or ordered to move to areas considered more "discreet." But the Ministry of Health sets rules that ban food and drink around pools, says Karkouti, and if breastfeeding is allowed, bottles should also be allowed.

A Ministry of Health official who is aware of this incident couldn't be reached for comment.

ETA: There is a big black sign in front of the pool that says: Breast feeding is wonderful but not in or around our pool. Nice.

We went to Holiday Beach Migration Observatory yesterday, for Migration Festival. Saw a bunch of sharp shinned hawks, a red tail, an osprey, a bald eagle and a couple of juveniles, a harrier, and a kestrel or two. People have some seriously messed up ideas about raptors, and you'd think I would remember that from educating the public about them for 3 years...

We went down to the main area to see what was happening there, and the Canadian Raptor Conservancy was demonstrating. For those who don't know, those are the very people who were courting me to work for them...after dissing Carolina Raptor Center for showing the public "poor birds who are missing a wing due to it being shot off". They would much rather show a "perfect bird" and show them flying through the air, so that the public can see the majesty and beauty that surround these birds (read: show off that they can fly a bird and the public can't) and give them a chance to see the gorgeous creatures that they can find in their very own back yards (read: like European Barn Owls and Eurasian Eagle Owls...not too many of those in Canada, I am sorry to say). My other issue with these people is that they have a captive breeding program for falconers, not that I'm against falconry, but cross breeding birds to make it more convenient for man (i.e. a gyrfalcon for its size and power bred with a peregrine falcon because it doesn't have to be in the cold like a gyr, means that you can have a northern, powerful bird that you wouldn't have to worry about overheating)...birds that can never, ever be set free as wild birds because they just can't survive. Once the falconer's done with that bird (and honestly, most don't keep hunting with them for the 8-15 years of their lives, if not more because they are captive creatures with medical care), they either rot in a cage, unused, get sent to a place that shows them off, or get put down.

Oh, and Carolina Raptor Center is bad, just so you know, because they have birds on display that people can walk around and learn about. Birds that could not be released due to permanent injury (maybe they'd rather that we killed all less than perfect birds?). This is horrible to the Canadian Raptor Conservancy...instead, let's train them to do tricks for the public!

And also, of the 4 or 5 birds I saw the guy present yesterday, only one was NOT imprinted on humans. Good job.

Aaaaanyway....totally not what I wanted to write about.

The Migration Festival is kind of neat because it teaches people about conservation and all that fun stuff, but there's a huge opportunity for bird banding. Bird banding is an incredibly useful tool to determine a zillion things - ok, so I exaggerate, but things like numbers of species, age, where they have been, etc...and all of this helps environmentalists/scientists determine the health of certain areas. The results indicate how the environment is doing and may help determine if there are things that need to be adjusted before they begin affecting other things, like, oh I don't know, human life? DDT is a perfect example of this.

Was I going for an environmental science/history lesson here? Nope. What's my point?

Yesterday morning, before the Festival opened for the day, it was found that nearly all of the nets used for capturing the birds as they migrate had been slashed and destroyed. Useless. And it's not like these people have a lot of money. We're talking thousands of dollars in damage, so they had to rig up another solution, but that means less birds will be recorded and banded (if they weren't already).

Good job, vandals! Guess you showed everyone.

*rolls eyes* What is wrong with people?

Also, sad about the DJ AM / Travis Barker plane crash. I don't like hearing about stuff like that before I go to bed. Hope they both recover well.

Look, they don't give out medals in the maternity ward. There's no I Avoided The Episiotomy wall of fame bulletin board and they don't put little stickers on the babies' foreheads to distinguish whose mother had an epidural or not. (Although I do remember seeing a sticker on Noah's bassinet chart that read "I'm a breastfed boy!", but somehow I doubt the bottle-fed babies' stickers featured frowny judgement faces, or anything.)

Obviously, birth choices are personal. And important, to a degree. We all have our preferences and images of how we'd like childbirth to happen -- hospital, home, birthing center, water, dolphins, whatever. And you absolutely should voice your wishes and concerns with everyone involved in the experience. But like motherhood, childbirth requires a certain acceptance that you cannot control every aspect of it, and that sometimes you simply must stop and reassess things. Be it your own tolerance for pain or your baby's well-being. And you need to be able to reassess these things without feeling like you...gag...FAILED. Seriously, THEY DON'T GIVE YOU GRADES.

Haha...I can think of a few people that should be reminded of this. If being completely inflexible is what they CHOOSE to do, that's fine for them, but it's completely unfair for them to expect others to follow their lead and incredibly rude for them to attempt to push their beliefs on others.

From the Foodland Ontario Family-Friendly Meal Ideas booklet.

Supposed to take 15 mins of prep, with 20-25 mins of cooking time. We'll see! Serves 4-6.

1 whole head of garlic
1/3 cup olive oil
1/2 tsp salt
2 tblsp red wine vinegar
1/4 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp sugar
2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (or 12oz boneless thighs)
1 tsp dried Italian herb seasoning
1 lb asparagus
1 sweet yellow pepper, quartered and seeded
12oz penne, rotini or fusilli pasta
12 to 16 cherry tomatoes, halved
1/4 torn fresh basil

Dressing: Cut top quarter off garlic head, peel off some papery skin. Rub with oil and microwave in small dish, loosely covered, at medium for 2 minutes. Wrap with foil and place on grill over med heat for 15 to 20 mins or until soft when squeezed. Let cool. Squeeze cloves into bowl. Add salt and mash with fork. Whisk in vinegar, pepper and sugar. Slowly whisk in remaining olive oil.

Salad: Meanwhile, trim excess fat from chicken, lightly brush with oil and sprinkle with Italian seasoning. Break asparagus stalks, discard ends and toss with olive oil. Place chicken, asparagus and yellow pepper on greased grill over med heat. Cook until chicken is tender and juices run clear and veggies are tender-crisp, 10 to 15 mins. Keep warm on upper rack.

Cook pasta until tender, drain (don't rinse) and place in large bowl. Slice chicken and pepper into strips, cut asparagus into pieces. Add to pasta with tomatoes and basil. Pour dressing over top and toss well. Serve warm.

I'll also be dry grilling two pieces of focaccia and serving with a nice dip of my herb oil.

I present, my rainbow Jell-o!



I'd make this again, but I'd plan for 20-30 minutes setting between layers next time. Took me about 6 hours to complete. Tastes amazing :)

Ok, so I'm totally going to make this...she suggested changing up the colours for whatever it is you're making it for...like red and green for Christmas, purple and green and yellow for Mardi Gras...

Rainbow Jello



( Recipe under here! )

I'm totally going to watch her journal from now on! Yay food!

Wow, I wasn't aware that so many products had been recalled in the Lysteria outbreak at Maple Leaf (nor did I realize they made so many other products)

For my future reference:
http://www.mapleleaf.ca/pdf/BartorRdProductRecallList.pdf

Wednesday, Jun. 18, 2008
Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High
By Kathleen Kingsbury

As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies — more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year. Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for glamorizing young unwed mothers. But principal Joseph Sullivan knows at least part of the reason there's been such a spike in teen pregnancies in this Massachusetts fishing town. School officials started looking into the matter as early as October, after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find out if they were pregnant. By May, several students had returned multiple times to get pregnancy tests, and on hearing the results, "some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," Sullivan says. All it took was a few simple questions before nearly half the expecting students, none older than 16, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. Then the story got worse. "We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy," the principal says, shaking his head.

The question of what to do next has divided this fiercely Catholic enclave. Even with national data showing a 3% rise in teen pregnancies in 2006 — the first increase in 15 years — Gloucester isn't sure it wants to provide easier access to birth control. In any case, many residents worry that the problem goes much deeper. The past decade has been difficult for this mostly white, mostly blue-collar city (pop. 30,000). In Gloucester, perched on scenic Cape Ann, the economy has always depended on a strong fishing industry. But in recent years, such jobs have all but disappeared overseas, and with them much of the community's wherewithal. "Families are broken," says school superintendent Christopher Farmer. "Many of our young people are growing up directionless."

The girls who made the pregnancy pact — some of whom, according to Sullivan, reacted to the news that they were expecting with high fives and plans for baby showers — declined to be interviewed. So did their parents. But Amanda Ireland, who graduated from Gloucester High on June 8, thinks she knows why these girls wanted to get pregnant. Ireland, 18, gave birth her freshman year and says some of her now pregnant schoolmates regularly approached her in the hall, remarking how lucky she was to have a baby. "They're so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally," Ireland says. "I try to explain it's hard to feel loved when an infant is screaming to be fed at 3 a.m."

The high school has done perhaps too good a job of embracing young mothers. Sex-ed classes end freshman year at Gloucester, where teen parents are encouraged to take their children to a free on-site day-care center. Strollers mingle seamlessly in school hallways among cheerleaders and junior ROTC. "We're proud to help the mothers stay in school," says Sue Todd, CEO of Pathways for Children, which runs the day-care center.

But by May, after nurse practitioner Kim Daly had administered some 150 pregnancy tests at Gloucester High's student clinic, she and the clinic's medical director, Dr. Brian Orr, a local pediatrician, began to advocate prescribing contraceptives regardless of parental consent, a practice at about 15 public high schools in Massachusetts. Currently Gloucester teens must travel about 20 miles (30 km) to reach the nearest women's health clinic; younger girls have to get a ride or take the train and walk. But the notion of a school handing out birth control pills has met with hostility. Says Mayor Carolyn Kirk: "Dr. Orr and Ms. Daly have no right to decide this for our children." The pair resigned in protest on May 30.

Gloucester's elected school committee plans to vote later this summer on whether to provide contraceptives. But that won't do much to solve the issue of teens wanting to get pregnant. Says rising junior Kacia Lowe, who is a classmate of the pactmakers': "No one's offered them a better option." And better options may be a tall order in a city so uncertain of its future. — With reporting by Kimberley McLeod/New York

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1815845,00.html?cnn=yes

Um, wow. Some of the responses on that vitamin thread are, um...well, let's just say the stupid hurts. My favourite was the response that stated that although you go to your doctor for advice, you have the right to take whatever vitamins you please. Yes, you do...and you have the right to smoke a crack pipe, but it's just not smart. We all know that.

Gee, and if the baby is born with permanent damage, we all know it's going to be the doctor's fault. It always is. Bastards...silly, educated, out to get all women bastards!

I remembered that one of the responders to my comment had stated that the Rite Aid prenatal had the same makeup as two Flintstones. I'm curious now...I am no longer living in the States, so I didn't have a Rite Aid brand prenatal to compare the kiddie vitamins to. So I followed the link she provided me with and...

	Flintstones Complete x 2	Rite Aid Prenatal x1	+/ -
Vitamin A *	4620 IU	1000 IU	+ 3620 IU
Beta Carotene *	1980 IU	3000 IU	+ 1020 IU
Vitamin D	800 IU	400 IU	+ 400 IU
Vitamin C	120 mg	100 mg	+ 20 mg
Vitamin E	60 IU	11 IU	+ 49 IU
Vitamin B1	3 mg	1.84 mg	+ 1.86 mg
Vitamin B2	3.4 mg	1.7 mg	+ 1.7 mg
Vitamin B6	4 mg	2.6 mg	+ 1.4 mg
Vitamin B12	12 mcg	4 mcg	+ 8 mcg
Niacinamide	0	18 mg	- 18 mg
Pantothenic Acid	0	0	?
Biotin	80 mcg	0	+ 80 mcg
Folic Acid	800 mcg	800 mcg	0
Calcium	200 mg	200 mg	0
Magnesium	40 mg	0	?
Zinc	24 mg	25 mg	- 1 mg
Iron	36 mg	27 mg	+ 9 mg
Copper	4 mg	0	?
Chromium	0	0	?
Manganese	0	5 mg	- 5 mg
Iodine	300 mcg	150 mcg	+ 150 mcg

Again, really not the same. At all. Going through this also made me really appreciative that I am not taking the Rite Aid prenatal because it's missing out on some stuff. The only two elements that are "exactly the same" are the two that aren't that hard to get during a normal day of eating (calcium and folic acid).

For the most part, the Flintstones are overdosing on many of the vitamins and  minerals as compared to this crappy prenatal (although that's not really saying much).

I've been accused of spending way too much time on this. My job is spent comparing things. This is second nature to me. Besides, I am the kind of person that likes to have things side by side to compare and not just theoretically speak about them - and definitely not just take someone's word for it, especially if it doesn't make a lick of sense even without the qualitative proof. Ooof, maybe that's too big a word for some. This is all so very confusing for you, I know *pet, pet, pet*

We've got a couple of fights tonight...hope the boys do well. Until then, it's work time. This was a nice little diversion.

Apparently, since Dr LJ says that "their doctor prescribed 2 Flintstones vitamins because it's the same as one prenatal", that it's fact.

And we all know that everything we read on the internet is true and everyone knows better than someone else's doctor.

Just like that chick that had pretty severe bleeding (at, what 34 weeks?) and got into the tub (because she was bleeding pretty heavily) and conferred with some "armchair doctors" on the internet who told her that bleeding and cramping was normal. When her husband came home and found her bleeding in the tub, just waiting it out, he rushed her to the hospital where she had to deliver her baby, stillborn, because there was something wrong with her placenta and, hey, guess what? It wasn't normal. And those people who told her it was perfectly normal and to just wait it out, yeah, they were wrong. And the baby died.

But what do I know? I'm not an "internet expert". Glad I'm not responsible for that little nugget of misinformation and advice.

I was just informed that two Flintstones Complete and one prenatal vitamin have the exact same vitamins and minerals. Oh really? Hmm...and here, I thought that I could look at two things, compare them, and see that they just aren't the same. For the record, I actually picked up a few (three maybe?) other children's vitamins and found that they just don't equate to the prenatal I had in my hand, or my doctor's recommendation list.

Maybe it's the two degrees I have, or the fact that I don't discredit every last thing my doctor says, unless of course he is saying something I WANT to hear, like, "Yes, you can take candy vitamins...it's just the same" (which mine, for the record, did not say...he said that if I could find a children's vitamin that meets ALL of the requirements (and doesn't exceed the vitamin A and a few others, which are dangerous to a developing fetus in higher than recommended doses), then go nuts and take it...)

He also said, "Don't trust the idiots on the internet because they are usually talking out their ass."

I love my doctor.

	Flintstones Complete x 2	Jamieson Prenatal x1	+/ -
Vitamin A *	4620 IU	1000 IU	+ 3620 IU
Beta Carotene *	1980 IU	1800 IU	+ 180 IU
Vitamin D3	800 IU (as Vit D)	200 IU	+ 600 IU
Vitamin C	120 mg	150 mg	- 30 mg
Vitamin E	60 IU	30 IU	+ 30 IU
Vitamin B1	3 mg	3 mg	0
Vitamin B2	3.4 mg	3.75 mg	- 0.35 mg
Vitamin B6	4 mg	10 mg	- 6 mg
Vitamin B12	12 mcg	10 mcg	+ 2 mcg
Niacinamide	0	22 mg	- 22 mg
Pantothenic Acid	0	10 mg	- 10 mg
Biotin	80 mcg	30 mcg	+ 50 mcg
Folic Acid	800 mcg	1000 mcg	- 200 mcg
Calcium	200 mg	200 mg	0
Magnesium	40 mg	100 mg	- 60 mg
Zinc	24 mg	20 mg	+ 4 mg
Iron	36 mg	28 mg	+ 8 mg
Copper	4 mg	1 mg	+ 3 mg
Chromium	0	25 mcg	- 25 mcg
Manganese	0	5 mg	- 5 mg
Iodine	300 mcg	150 mcg	+ 150 mcg

* The Vitamin A in one Flintstones, 33% of the 3000 IU of Vitamin A is beta carotene. Jamieson separates the beta carotene from the Vitamin A, so that's where those numbers come from.

The numbers were taken from the Flintstones Complete supplement facts, and the supplement details of the Jamieson Prenatal Multivitamin. I didn't just pull them out of the air.

Now, I'm no expert...but I am pretty sure that if 2 Flintstones Complete = 1 Prenatal vitamin, that last column would be all zeros...but it isn't.

( Article about high dosing Vitamin A )

Say NO to Vitamin A Supplements

Unsafe For You and Baby
-- By Becky Hand, Licensed and Registered Dietician & Nicole Nichols, Health Educator

So, if we look at the fact that this particular article is stating that a pregnant woman needs 2,565 IU daily (that's supplement PLUS vitamin A/beta carotene ingested through diet) and two Flintstones have a whopping 6,600 IU, which is a lot. Especially if you consider that in an average day, I consume, through diet, about 1,300 IU.

If I took two Flintstones, I'd be taking in at LEAST 7,900 IU of Vitamin A. That's a difference of 5,335 IU. I'd consider that excessive. So, in my honest opinion, taking 2 Flintstones instead of a prenatal vitamin developed specifically with the dietary needs of a pregnant woman/developing fetus because someone else's doctor said it was okay, is ridiculous.

And if you look at these numbers and still maintain that 2 Flinstones give you exactly the same, required vitamins and minerals...well, I'll let you guys fill in the blank.

I know, *facepalm*, I had no idea.

Overweight or obese women are less likely to initiate breastfeeding and more likely to have problems nursing. Their extra body fat alters the hormones that regulate milk secretion, so they may take longer to produce sufficient milk. Because nursing reduces babies' risk of becoming obese themselves, overweight new moms should seek extra support to achieve breastfeeding success.
- Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health

So, what this is saying is that you cant shove anything and everything into your mouth during pregnancy because you're "eating for two"? So maybe, instead of trying to pass your big fat gut off as a "baby belly" at 6 weeks, you should go see a nutritionist and talk to your doctor about getting on a fitness regimen.

It's not just about you...it's about doing what's best for your baby.

Family 'crushed' as Canucks blueliner Luc Bourdon killed in motorcycle crash

He was 21. What a horrible way to die.