Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Tonight is Halloween! Elliot is a bit too young to go trick or treating, although he will be wearing his bear hat. With the crazy pace of our lives since he's been here, we haven't had time to carve any pumpkin, which is really disappointing for Zak who usually carves ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
A CBC sponsored investigation has echoed the results from an Australian study, by the Queensland University of Technology, that found breathing the air pollution created by some printers could be the same as breathing second hand smoke:
"These small particles remain airborne for much longer than the larger particles that tend ...
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
There are tons of baby books on the market, and one that was recommended to us before Elliot's birth was Secrets of the Baby Whisperer (en français, Les secrets d'une charmeuse de bébés). I started reading it and it made me feel uneasy for a few reasons, the main one ...
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
According to a recent study from the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology in Barcelona, Spain, using household cleaning sprays and scented air fresheners as little as once a week can raise a person's risk of developing adult asthma. CBC.ca reports:
Fifteen per cent, or one in seven, adult asthma cases ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
I discovered Fit 4 Two when I was pregnant. The company, created by a Mompreneur from Vancouver, offers a wide variety of fitness classes for pregnant women as well as parents of young children. I took their prenatal fitness class with Melanie Osmack, the founder of the company, who proved ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Elliot and I are participating to the Roots of Empathy program. This program uses the relationship between a parent and a developing baby to teach classrooms about empathy. More specifically, Elliot and I will be visiting the same Grade 1 classroom every month for the whole school year; the children ...
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
There is no doubt that babies need to suck. The question is: what should they be allowed to suck on? Arguments for and against the use of a pacifier are sometimes contradictory, and it's hard for parents to make up their mind.
For the pacifier is the fact that studies have ...
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