I’m not surprised that Gwyneth Paltrow is a hands-on parent. She seems like a lot of other working moms, trying to balance her career and still spend quality time with her kids. And in their house, some of that quality time seems to be spent in the bathtub.
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25-03-2009 12:47 www.Early-Pregnancy-Tests.com – A demonstration of how to use and interpret early detection pregnancy test strips from Early-Pregnancy-Tests.com. These pregnancy test directions are easy to follow showing both positive and negative results.
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The unexpected pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears shocked fans of the then-16-year-old Nickelodeon star in 2007.
Now almost 21, Jamie is speaking out about her struggles as a teen mom and the painful press that came along with her very public pregnancy.
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“I had to make a decision that I could sleep with every night. I did feel responsible for the young girls and the mothers who I probably confused and let down. I apologize for that,” Jamie told Glamour magazine in an interview for their latest issue, of deciding to keep her baby. “But I wasn't trying to glamorize teen pregnancy. I hated when [the tabloids] said that. Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them. But the hateful comments hurt.”
Jamie, who split from daughter Maddie's father Casey Aldridge in 2010, said watching the tabloids having a heyday with sister Britney Spears' tribulations made her decide to move out of Los Angeles to escape stressful scrutiny.
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“I just wanted to get away from it as much as I could, to just go away and be a mom and figure out what I wanted, and to earn a sense of respect back for myself,” she told the mag. “Move to a town in the middle of nowhere and just raise my child. All I could be was a good mother. If anybody had anything to say after that, there was nothing I could do.”
Jamie also opened up about the difficulties of being a teen mom.
“There were so many times — especially when Maddie would get sick — when I would cry to myself and think, 'I really don't know what to do,'” she said. “It takes bravery to be a young mom, and it does take bravery to let the world watch.”
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Former Child Stars
Now an aspiring country singer, Jamie Lynn resides in Nashville, Tenn., with Maddie, 3, and finds music a helpful outlet to express everything she's gone through in the last five years.
“I was a kid who did a kid show. Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult,” she said. “This is the first time anybody is really meeting me as a grown woman and grown mother making a decision about what to do with my life… My music will speak for itself.”
VIEW THE PHOTOS: A Look Back: Britney Spears’ Early Years
For the full interview with Jamie Lynn, head over to Glamour.
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The unexpected pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears shocked fans of the then-16-year-old Nickelodeon star in 2007.
Now almost 21, Jamie is speaking out about her struggles as a teen mom and the painful press that came along with her very public pregnancy.
PLAY IT NOW: Dish Of Salt: Bristol Palin Talks Teen Pregnancy & Guest Starring On ‘The Secret Life Of The American Teenager’
“I had to make a decision that I could sleep with every night. I did feel responsible for the young girls and the mothers who I probably confused and let down. I apologize for that,” Jamie told Glamour magazine in an interview for their latest issue, of deciding to keep her baby. “But I wasn't trying to glamorize teen pregnancy. I hated when [the tabloids] said that. Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them. But the hateful comments hurt.”
Jamie, who split from daughter Maddie's father Casey Aldridge in 2010, said watching the tabloids having a heyday with sister Britney Spears' tribulations made her decide to move out of Los Angeles to escape stressful scrutiny.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Jamie Lynn Spears
“I just wanted to get away from it as much as I could, to just go away and be a mom and figure out what I wanted, and to earn a sense of respect back for myself,” she told the mag. “Move to a town in the middle of nowhere and just raise my child. All I could be was a good mother. If anybody had anything to say after that, there was nothing I could do.”
Jamie also opened up about the difficulties of being a teen mom.
“There were so many times — especially when Maddie would get sick — when I would cry to myself and think, 'I really don't know what to do,'” she said. “It takes bravery to be a young mom, and it does take bravery to let the world watch.”
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Former Child Stars
Now an aspiring country singer, Jamie Lynn resides in Nashville, Tenn., with Maddie, 3, and finds music a helpful outlet to express everything she's gone through in the last five years.
“I was a kid who did a kid show. Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult,” she said. “This is the first time anybody is really meeting me as a grown woman and grown mother making a decision about what to do with my life… My music will speak for itself.”
VIEW THE PHOTOS: A Look Back: Britney Spears’ Early Years
For the full interview with Jamie Lynn, head over to Glamour.
Copyright 2012 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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From a 14-pound baby to a diaper that grounded a plane and more, check out our favorite parenting links from around this web this week:
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Skip the Superman-themed drugstore boxed sets for Valentine’s Day this year and instead print as many adorable cards as you need for free thanks to talented graphic designers and bloggers who post their creations online. (Did we mention they’re free?) We’ve rounded up the best of the best for you. Valentine’s Day — done!
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By: Jessica Rainwater Jonesboro's Pregnancy Resource Center has moved to South Main Street after outgrowing the Caraway Road location. The Pregnancy Resource Center, which has been open since 1980, was called Pregnancy Problem Center until 2001. Volunteers and sta… ;
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While your odds of developing stretch marks during pregnancy are (for the most part) left to fate outside of your control, Molly Sims is following a diet rich in good-for-you fatty acids to improve her odds of avoiding them.
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Sims, who tied the knot with her beau Scott Stuber in September, is a follower of Lori Bregman's Rooted For Life program, a holistic approach to pregnancy and motherhood. On her blog, the 4-months pregnant mama-to-be shared some of her menu highlights, which include:
– Fish, olive, coconut, canola, hempseed, and flaxseed oils
– Hemp, flax, sesame, sunflower, and pumpkin seeds
– Almond and nut butter
– Salmon and cod
– Avocodos
– Split peas
– Lentils
– Collard Greens
Other celeb moms who have shared their secrets to avoiding the dreaded stretch marks include Ali Landry, who's a devoted user of (and spokesperson for) Palmer's Cocoa Butter, and Victoria Beckham, who favored the pricey Elemis Japanese Camellia Oil last year.
Do you think that stretch marks are best treated from the inside or out? Do you have any other great tips and tricks for avoiding the battle scars of pregnancy?
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From plastic flowers to pepper spray, check out these misguided gifts — and hope that your guy does better this Valentine’s Day!
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Store-bought Valentines are ho-hum. For Valentine’s Day this year, sit down with the kiddies to create something more original to hand out to classmates.
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At one time, parents kept their kids independently busy without the aid of television, freeing up valuable time to wash dishes, make phone calls, churn butter, scare away dinosaurs — whatever responsible grown-ups did back then. Experts have warned us that televisions make lousy babysitters, so here are some contemporary TV-free suggestions to keep your kids doing their thing while you do yours.
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My 7-year-old daughter is fascinated by makeup, and I’ve never thought it was a big deal to let her play with candy-scented lip balm or fruity body wash. But there’s no way I would ever let her out into the world wearing actual makeup a day before she’s 14.
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My husband and I hadn’t been married a year when he started talking about kids. As in, having them. A confirmed non-breeder at the time, I was totally freaked out by these discussions. I mean, were we ready? Would we be good parents? Could we handle the stress, the sleep deprivation, the financial burden, the smell and mess of a small creature’s bodily waste in our house?
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When I was pregnant, I desperately wanted to be one of those still mostly-trim gals who sport a nice, contained baby bump. Instead, I looked like I had been batter dipped from head to toe and rolled in extra dough for good measure. By the end, I had maybe one decent leave-the-house outfit that I could wriggle into; the rest of the time I lived in maternity sweats and (I am not proud of this) an old pair of overalls.
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Jersey Shore : Snooki denies report of pregnancy with boyfriend Jionni LaValle's baby
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A Sumatran rhino which is 10-months pregnant is receiving special medical care after suffering two miscarriages, a conservationist said Thursday, fuelling hope for the critically-endangered species.
The nine-year old rhino, named Ratu, is expected to give birth in July to only the fourth Sumatran rhino born in captivity and the first in Indonesia.
Her partner Andalas, born in the United States in 2001, was the first Sumatran rhino born in captivity in over 112 years.
“We have given her special hormone treatments to lessen the risk of miscarriage. Thank God, it is working well and we hope she'll have a successful birth,” Widodo Ramono from the Rhino Foundation of Indonesia told AFP.
“It will be the first Sumatran rhino born in captivity in Indonesia,” Ramono added.
The two-horned, hairy, forest-dwelling Sumatran rhinoceros is one of the most endangered mammals in the world, with only about 200 remaining in the wild — about 180 in Indonesia and the rest in Malaysia.
Ratu and Andalas were paired in 2009 at a sanctuary in Way Kambas national park in Lampung, South Sumatra province, two years after Andalas was brought from the Cincinnati zoo for a breeding programme.
Poaching is one of the biggest killers of Sumatran rhinos, whose numbers have dropped more than 50 percent over the last 15 years. Their horns are reputed to have medicinal properties.
Andalas is the only remaining male Sumatran rhino at Way Kambas since Torgamba, another male, died last year. The sanctuary has three female Sumatran rhinos.
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When I was pregnant, I desperately wanted to be one of those still mostly-trim gals who sport a nice, contained baby bump. Instead, I looked like I had been batter dipped from head to toe and rolled in extra dough for good measure. By the end, I had maybe one decent leave-the-house outfit that I could wriggle into; the rest of the time I lived in maternity sweats and (I am not proud of this) an old pair of overalls.
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EUGENE, Ore. – A 24-year-old Oregon woman accused of murdering her newborn has testified she faked the pregnancy and falsely confessed to killing a baby boy because she wasn’t thinking clearly. Angelica Swartout, of Springfield, gave a videotaped confession in which she tearfully confessed to delivering and smothering a baby in a workplace employee restroom on Oct. 18, 2010. She told police she …
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Accused of killing a newborn son, Angelica Swartout took the witness stand Tuesday and demonstrated for jurors how she allegedly pushed out her belly to simulate advancing pregnancy in order to continue receiving support and attention from her large adoptive family.
The 24-year-old hotel clerk testified that she got so “trapped into the story” she’d allegedly concocted after an apparent miscarriage that she “didn’t know how to get out of it.”
Swartout spoke only vaguely about a videotaped December 2010 police interrogation in which she tearfully confessed to delivering and smothering a baby boy in a workplace employee bathroom on Oct. 18, 2010.
“My mind wasn’t processing what was going on at that time.?… I didn’t realize at the time I was setting myself up for an aggravated murder charge,” she said in a Lane County courtroom.
She said she didn’t “tell the truth” even when police confronted her because doing so would mean “telling my family I lied to them.”
Under cross-examination by prosecutor Bob Lane, she acknowledged agreeing when police suggested that she delivered a child in the employee bathroom, that the baby was squeaking and gasping for air, and that she wrapped it up so tightly that it couldn’t breathe, then put it in a trash bin.
“I felt they already decided what happened, so I just kept agreeing with them,” she said, later adding: “I felt that even if I told them the truth, I wouldn’t be believed.”
Swartout also told Lane that she didn’t recall telling a co-worker the night of the alleged infanticide that she’d had a miscarriage. The hotel laundry worker testified last week that Swartout offered that explanation after the co-worker found plastic bags that appeared to be spattered with blood and urine in a restroom trash can.
Swartout also appeared to struggle to answer Lane’s questions about why she waited until the summer of 2011 to tell her defense team that she’d faked a pregnancy and never delivered a child.
Under follow-up questioning by defense attorney Gordon Mallon, Swartout said she didn’t want to admit to her family that she’d lied about the pregnancy, and had expected that a police investigation would turn up evidence — such as a negative pregnancy test at a local clinic in March 2010 — that she never had a child. She said “reality kicked in” when she went to a summer 2011 court proceeding and learned that she faced a possible death sentence. The state has since decided not to seek the ultimate punishment if Swartout is convicted.
She began her testimony Tuesday by telling jurors she was “very scared.”
“This is the only chance I have to tell the truth,” she said. “I’m scared that if I’m not believed, I’ll spend the rest of my life in prison.”
But she looked directly at the jury as she responded to Mallon’s request that she “tell the jury how this all got started.”
“I lied. I lied to my family and friends,” she said.
Swartout said she initially told them truthfully that she’d had a positive home pregnancy test while living out of state in early 2010. Feeling “scared and unsure,” she contacted one of her older adoptive sisters, Jewel Sward, and accepted Sward’s invitation to come home to Springfield, Swartout said.
“For the first time in my life since I was a kid, I felt a sense of belonging,” she told the jury. “I mattered to my family all the sudden.?… They thought I was going to have a baby. Babies are big in our family.”
Then, that February, she had some vaginal bleeding. She’d read that such bleeding was possible even during pregnancy, Swartout said, telling jurors: “I didn’t want to think about the other possibility that it could have been a miscarriage.”
After the negative pregnancy test, that “denial” ended, she said. But she pretended the gestation was progressing, she said, because “I was just so into the way I was being treated by my family,” including regular phone calls from her adoptive mother. The acceptance stood in contrast to her teen years, she said, when she was “cast as kind of the black sheep.”
She said she lied about doctor appointments and about having an ultrasound showing she was having a boy. Swartout disputed reports by prosecution witnesses that her belly grew steadily larger with pregnancy in the spring, summer and fall of 2010. She testified that a local mother-child nutrition program recorded her weight as 181 pounds in April 2010, and 180 pounds in June of that year. She said she now weighs about 170 pounds.
Jurors appeared to watch intently as Swartout spoke, some not even looking down at their tablets as they jotted notes. One juror listened with his arms crossed over his chest, taking no notes at all.
She told the panel of eight women and four men that she carried out the ruse by wearing baggy clothing — “I actually wore a fleece (jacket) all summer” — and pushing out her stomach. At Mallon’s suggestion, she stood in the witness stand and struck the same pose as in a July 28, 2010, photo that her sister provided the state as evidence of her advancing pregnancy.
She said she falsely told friends and family that she delivered a stillborn son at a local hospital on Oct. 18, 2010, “because I was supposed to be having a kid.”
Two of her sisters called police five weeks later after catching her in that lie when they tried to get the child’s body for a funeral.
Some of her family members wept in court as she apologized to them at Mallon’s suggestion, saying she put them through “hurt.”
“I could feel them grieving for something that wasn’t there. I feel horrible,” she said. “Not only did they do that, but they’re going through all this.”
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We all know teen pregnancy happens, but the reasons for it happening in Utah may surprise you.
According to research by the Centers for Disease Control, of the teens that got pregnant in our state, 53% were not using protection. 49% of the girls thought they could not get pregnant, while 24% thought their partner was sterile. That number is three times higher than the national average.
Utah teens we talked with said those reasons make no sense to them.
“you shouldn't have the excuse of I didn't know because you learn about it growing up and you should know,” said 17 year old Fiona Morrison.
Morrison’s friend agreed. “I mean 17 is really old I mean where you should know about that, and if you don't know obviously it has something to do with you being too sheltered or something like that,” Bradley Lewis said.
The pregnant teens interviewed did not receive follow up questions, so we don't know why they believed what they did.
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Taking fish oils during pregnancy could protect your unborn baby from eczema, scientists say.
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TUESDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) — Women who are both overweight and smoke during pregnancy could damage their baby's developing heart, a new study warns.
Researchers in the Netherlands looked at nearly 800 fetuses and babies with congenital heart defects, but no other birth defects, between 1997 and 2008. Congenital means present at birth. This group was compared with more than 300 fetuses and babies born with chromosomal abnormalities, but without any heart defects.
The results showed that women who were both overweight (body mass index of 25 or more) and smoked during pregnancy were 2.5 times more likely to have a baby with a congenital heart defect than women who either smoked or were overweight during pregnancy.
The researchers also found that babies born to overweight mothers who smoked during pregnancy had a threefold increased risk of outflow tract abnormalities, in which blood flow from the ventricles of the heart to the pulmonary artery or aorta is reduced or blocked.
The study was published online Jan. 31 in the journal Heart.
“These results indicate that maternal smoking and overweight may both be involved in the same pathway that causes congenital heart defects,” wrote Dr. Marian Bakker of the department of medical genetics at the University Medical Centre, Groningen, and colleagues in a journal news release.
The findings add to the growing body of evidence that smoking and being overweight during pregnancy is associated with problems such as miscarriage and stillbirth, stunted growth and premature birth, the researchers said.
Heart abnormalities, one of the most common kinds of birth defects, affect about 8 in every 1,000 babies. A likely cause is identified in only 15 percent of cases.
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TUESDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) — A pre-pregnancy diet high in animal fat increases the risk that moms-to-be will develop gestational diabetes, a new study says.
“Our findings indicate that women who reduce the proportion of animal fat and cholesterol in their diets before pregnancy may lower their risk for gestational diabetes during pregnancy,” senior author Dr. Cuilin Zhang, of the epidemiology branch at the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said in an NIH news release.
Researchers analyzed data from more than 13,000 women in the U.S. Nurses' Health Study II. The women were ages 22 to 45 when they enrolled in the study and provided information every few years about their health and lifestyle habits, such as the kinds of foods they ate.
About 6 percent said they had been diagnosed with gestational diabetes, a form of diabetes that occurs during pregnancy. Gestational diabetes increases the risk for certain pregnancy complications and health problems in newborns.
Women who consumed the most animal fat were nearly twice as likely to develop gestational diabetes as those who consumed the lowest amounts. Also, women who consumed the highest amounts of dietary cholesterol were 45 percent more likely to develop gestational diabetes than those who consumed the lowest amounts.
There was no increased risk of gestational diabetes among women whose diets were high in total fat or other kinds of fat, said the researchers at the NIH and Harvard University.
They also found that the increased risk for gestational diabetes associated with diets high in animal fat and cholesterol seemed to be independent of other dietary and non-dietary risk factors.
For example, exercise is known to reduce the risk of gestational diabetes. But among pregnant women who exercised, the risk of gestational diabetes was higher among those who consumed higher amounts of animal fat and cholesterol than those who consumed lower levels of those types of fat.
The researchers concluded that changing 5 percent of dietary calories from animal fat to plant-derived sources could reduce a woman's risk of gestational diabetes by 7 percent.
The study was published online Jan. 4 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
“This is the largest study to date of the effects of a pre-pregnancy diet on gestational diabetes,” first author Katherine Bowers of the NICHD said in the news release. “Additional research may lead to increased understanding of how a mother's diet before and during pregnancy influences her metabolism during pregnancy, which may have important implications for the baby's health at birth and later in life.”
While the study found an association between a high fat diet and gestational diabetes, it did not prove that such a diet causes the condition.
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The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has more about gestational diabetes.
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