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Hello and happy Friday!  Today I thought I would share with you a new piece in my wardrobe that I am deeply in love with.  This jumper hasnt been off my back since I got it and whilst you may think I am over-exaggerating, I think friends and family have questioned if I actually own any other clothes!! Introducing, my new BFF (!), the All Saints Itat Shrug!

First of all, I adore All Saints.  I think the quality of the clothes is just amazing and very long lasting. Items wash well and are true investment pieces. I had completely fallen in love with this top when I saw it back in October, and I finally purchased it during a 20% event just before Christmas (they seem to have a 20% event most months).  I got it in the grey marl shade, but there is a dark grey, black and taupe available too. The fit is loose with quite fitted sleeves, and there is this lovely drape detail at the front where the material overlaps on itself.  But thats not all! 

This is no ordinary jumper.  What I love about this top is that it turns into a cardigan too! You flick the V section behind your head and voila! A cardigan!! (And it actually looks like a lovely cardigan, it doesnt look like you have just wrapped something over your head).  

The Itat shrug is still available at All Saints here and the dark grey version appears to have gone in the sale for £39! Versatile, comfy and stylish...I think my love affair with this piece will be a long one!

Thank you for reading and have a wonderful weekend! 

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baby weight loss in the first week | Audio books

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Listening to an audio book while flipping through a library book
North Carolina September 2012

Preschool has started. My four-year old comes home every day happy, exhausted, and over-stimulated. Ive been letting him watch one movie for a little quiet time, but that leaves the entire rest of the afternoon for us to figure out what to do next. This past week was a little rough. Not only did our family just have a stressful week in general (I think everything that could break, did break), I also have realized that our afternoon schedule was not working well for a tired preschooler that does not nap. What to do?

Well, I started by figuring out what his body needs. For some reason, he doesnt finish his lunch at school. His brothers have been eating lunch after we pick D up from school, so I have D come home and finish his lunch while his brothers eat. Following the preschool lingo, D likes to call this "snack time." After snack time and toddler lunchtime, we have Family Quiet Time. The toddlers go down to nap and D relaxes on the couch and watches a movie. This gives me time to do the things that I want to do, such as checking my emails, blogging, devotionals, or writing. An added bonus is that many days D falls asleep on the couch while watching the movie.

But then the movie is over and D meanders over to stand at my shoulder, "Momma, what are you doing?" This is when the schedule gets tricky and I wasnt sure what I needed to do. We went in the backyard to play and it was too rigorous. He was tired and whiny by dinnertime. One day he even fell asleep while I was cooking dinner! We practiced writing, but he had already practiced writing at preschool in the morning and it was very late in the afternoon to apply himself to focused writing with me. We played a board game, but his antsy four-year old mind only wanted to focus on Chutes and Ladders three or four times before suggesting, "Hey, lets play Eels and Elevators!" (A very confusing made-up game of his based off a Sponge Bob episode.) Basically, we have bumbled our way through the afternoons making spur of the moment decisions based off of how we felt that day. Some days it worked fine; other days he was bored or overtired. This scheduling Momma does not like operating that way.

So I started thinking. What is he interested in that I could use to my advantage? What would keep him interested, but still give him a little down time? At the same time, what can we find that will broaden his mind and not just offer pointless entertainment? Several days were spent thinking about the afternoon schedule when it hit me on the way to preschool Thursday morning. D jumped in the van and hollered from the back, "Hey, Momma! Can we listen to the Cars story on the way to preschool?" To quote Despicable Me, "Light bulb."

Audio books.

Believe it or not, we dont have a CD player in our house. We have my laptop, where I play CDs or burn them into iTunes; I also have my iHome. We have our surround system, but a four-year old is not going to be given the go ahead to play with the surround sound system. We needed a Target trip (oh, darn... wink, wink). At Target, D was very interested in the "race car aisle" and very bored on the electronics aisle. He wanted to push every button on all the displays of the fancy audio systems. Watching him work, I asked where the cheapest, most basic CD players were. We found a basic CD player for $20. He liked throwing the box in the cart; he had no interest in the CD player. We stopped by the race car aisle and he bummed a shark monster truck. (Who thinks of this stuff? "I know," exclaimed the Matchbox exec, "lets combine sharks with monster trucks: a shark monster truck!" Everyone at the board meeting cheers with glee. "Why didnt I think of that?" an intern grumbles.) I said no to the monster truck and started explaining the merits of his CD player. His eyes glazed over. In the Jeep, he allowed me to hand him the CD player after he buckled up, but he just set it on the seat next to him, instead of his normal scrutiny of a new toy. It wasnt until we got home, plugged the CD player in and put his Cars Song and Story CD in that his eyes lit up. "Hey, Dadda! We can listen to Cars in the house! We can listen to Jake and the Neverland pirates in the house, not just in the van!"

This afternoon, he went to his room and turned on an audio book. While the audio book was playing, he pulled out his Playmobile pirates and started an elaborate sea battle. This is huge for my child who does not entertain himself. He even was molding his comforter in the shape of waves to make the battle even more epic. Momma thought, "This calls for a library trip."

Off we went to the library. In front of the wall of childrens audio books, I saw his eyes glaze over once again. "Um, Im going to the childrens play area," said my wiggle worm.

"Okay, but its not a play area. Its a reading corner," I caution.

"It looks like a play area to me..." he mumbled as he wandered off.

I quickly scanned the audio book selection. D had pointed to the Little House series before he left, declaring, "I want the horse one." I was uncertain about the series because he has such a small attention span and I wanted the first library audio book experience to be captivating. I found How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long (we love David Shannon) and a promising title called Freddy and the Dragon by Walter R Brook. Hearing a ruckus from the childrens corner, I quickly grabbed something familiar, The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. Along with the audio books, we left with our usual mountain high stack of "library fines," as my husband and mother call my library trips. (Let me just say, in my defense, that it is very difficult to know in advance the time frame of when you will feel like reading a specific title, especially when you have the suffocating pressure of an impending deadline, or return by date, in front of you. In my defense.)

Once home, D ran to his room to grab his CD player. We put the shortest title in first, the Melinda Long book. After the quick book was read, he asked for another. We went with the Walter Brooks childrens novel. He sat engrossed for the first chapter and a half before hitting "pause" like a gentleman and announcing, "Well, thats enough for one day." My wiggle worm preschooler sat "criss-cross applesauce" listening to these stories by himself! Doing nothing but listening! Yes, the concept is still new and novel, but with the endless supply of materials from the library, we can keep his audio book collection fresh and interesting. Both my husband and I are thrilled over his enthusiasm to hear stories.

The library has never been Ds favorite place to go. As soon as we walk inside, the volume of his voice kicks up two notches, "MOMMA, WHY IS EVERYONE SO QUIET IN HERE?" His hands wander aimlessly, knocking over stacks of books or none-to-carefully returning a book to the shelf. Myself being a book lover, I cannot help but cringe when I hear him disturbing the sanctity of this wonderful commonwealth of knowledge. After hitting pause, he walked over to our stack of library books and ran his finger down their spines. "Momma," he said, "I cant wait to go back to the library!"

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weight loss during pregnancy gender | PREGNANT WHEN OVERWEIGHT FERTILITY PROBLEMS FOR BABY

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Trying To Get Pregnant - Obesity Complications

What does diet have to do with fertility? Ive read that approximately 60% of American adults are overweight and children arent far behind
If you ever travel to other countries, you start looking around and wonder, "Hmmmm...where are all the fat people?" But that might not be for long. As other countries get more "Americanized", they are seeing their rates of obesity climb. Ive read that its almost "trendy" to eat American fast food in other countries.

SEE ALSO: FOODS FOR FERTILITY (getpregnantover40.com)

So, why am I talking about diet and weight on a fertility blog? If youve done any reading about enhancing fertility youve undoubtedly heard that being overweight can affect fertility for both women and men. But now, were finding out that even if you do succeed in getting pregnant, you might hurt your babys future fertility.
When I started my all natural journey to pregnancy, I completely changed how and what I ate. Im glad I did because I still eat just as healthy now and I know that I will never have a weight problem. As a matter of fact, I currently weigh two pounds less than before I got pregnant. I realize all those "bad" foods are quite tasty, but once you starting eating fruits and vegetables daily, you start to prefer them.

Give it a try. Your baby will thank you.

 Here is an article from the BBC News:

Lead researcher Dr Michael Davies from the Research Centre in Reproductive Health at the University of Adelaide, said: "We may reasonably expect an epidemic of menstrual and fertility diseases as a consequence."

His team interviewed 544 women who had been born between 1973 and 1974, which meant they were now aged between 30 and 32.
The women were asked about their medical history. Their records were also checked to assess their own birth weight and the weight of their mothers at the last clinical examination before they had given birth.
The women who reported having irregular periods were far more likely to have been large babies and their mothers were more likely to have been obese while carrying them in the womb.
  (news.bbc.co.uk):

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pregnancy weight loss why | Project Parenting

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Bear with me...

I love Project Runway. I love watching people pursue their dreams and have an opportunity to let their creativity run wild, to focus solely on their passion. (When, as adults, do we have a chance to be thrown in neck deep to forget about the rest and just do what we love?) As I was watching Project Runway this season, I started thinking about a common theme through all the seasons of Project Runway, creating that moment. Runway fashion is about that moment when the model turns the corner on the runway and the audience gasps at the design and innovation of the created piece. It isnt about practicality or what went in to the outfit or the budget or any of that; it is that elusive moment of excitement and intrigue over what you are witnessing for that brief period of time. The model walks down the runway, pauses, lets you take it in, and then turns-- vanishes-- poof! She has gone back stage and the moment is gone. You are left thinking about what you saw. You only have your impression, what you remember, nothing in your hands, nothing tangible. How did you feel about it?

Recently Project Runway shows when the judges have the models come down to their judging area after the show, while the contestants wait to hear what was decided and who will go home. One by one the models come before the judges to have the pieces they are wearing inspected. Sometimes a piece that was mediocre on the runway suddenly blossoms in front of the judges eyes-- "Can you believe the amount of work and technique that went into this? It looks so simple and, yet, look! The fine detail..." Sometimes wow pieces are exposed for what they are-- prototypes. It walked down the runway amazing and was beautiful, but under their prying eyes they can see the stitches coming unraveled, seams that werent finished, details glued on haphazardly right before the show. It was never real-- never a finished piece, just an illusion.

I have been mulling this idea over in my mind. Parenting has been a challenge for me lately. I feel stretched and empty. I feel like I simplify and still I have twelve hundred things to do at one time. I try to go back to the basics, the things I must complete each day and allow the space and time to get those things done yet the children, through no fault of their own, keep finding ways to stretch me. And this is where I tie in Project Runway. I have times where I feel like those designers. They are working with this limited budget to create something in a short time, to get it done, to make it work, to put on a show. The workroom is a mess. Everyone is at their table doing the best that they can, cutting, sewing, dreaming, believing, doubting. "Is this good enough? Is this right? This is what Im trying to showcase." Last week a designer hovered over his material, doubting if he was ready to commit to the cuts he was about to make. Once he cut the fabric, there was no going back, no changing his mind for a different design; he would be committed to that path. Was he ready to make that choice? As a parent, I relate to those feelings of doubt. That desire to do the best that I can, to make it work. While I do not have a panel of judges watching my parenting and critiquing me, but I do have times where I feel judged, whether I actually am or whether I perceive to be. I relate to taking all of these busy aspects of life and tying them together to make a cohesive look, a finished product, a child that has all of these different elements of myself, my husband, and our life together working inside of him.

Parenting has those moments. The moments where you dont see whats going on backstage or the craziness in the audience-- the cameras, the crew, the people, the noise-- and all you see is the model coming down the runway. Yesterday my husband and I felt like having a movie night. We blew up the air mattress in the family room and snuggled on the couch all day watching Tim Burton movies with the children. We made "mummies" out of hot dogs and crescent rolls. We had popcorn and candy. It was great doing nothing. I wasnt thinking about the laundry that had to be finished before the week started or the sink full of dishes that would need to be done before breakfast the next day. I wasnt thinking about the sour sugar all over our floor or the ketchup stains the baby made on the blankets. We had our moment. It was sublime. Of course it didnt last. The baby got bored and dedicated his time to climbing on the table and knocking over our drinks and popcorn. The older boys started wrestling on the air mattress. My husband fell asleep. I was pinned in a corner of the couch with a baby hitting me with a remote control. We finally pried ourselves off the couch to put an end to the wrestling and finish the dishes, start the laundry, get the boys to clean their toys in the loft. We did pajamas, medicine, dinner, and got the house ready for school and work the next day. The boys ended up having an early bedtime due to meltdowns. Our oldest desperately finished up his Boy Scout project. It was chaos. But when we got in bed that night, my husband and I remembered that moment when we were all on the air mattress watching movies, when our four boys were snuggled up under one blanket, eyes glued to the silly songs, and we had this whole lazy afternoon stretched before us, nowhere to be but here, now.

Lately I feel like Ive been focusing on the chaos. Not the good chaos of parenting, but the bad chaos. The meltdowns, the repeated battles, the same old story day in and day out. I have been letting little things get to me in a big way and I have forgotten about the beauty and magic of parenting. How children can get so much joy from a rainy day (even if they throw a massive fit when it is time to go inside). How fun an air mattress is (even if it ends with a bloody lip and a crying baby). How long weekends are (even if it flies by in a whirlwind and you never make it to the trains, the pumpkin patch, the movies, wherever you wanted to take them that weekend). How sweet sick days can be (even if you still have three other children to take care of plus all the house responsibilities you always have to accomplish). Ive turned away from the moments and been caught up in whats going on backstage. I feel like that lately Ive been trying to make this wow piece-- getting our house on schedule, figuring out how to transition activities without meltdowns, organizing our spaces, working on manners-- but that it is all an illusion because upon closer inspection it is all falling apart. Im stressed doing it. Im not taking the time to enjoy the finished product. Im still thinking about what the garment should look like, what I didnt accomplish, what I intended to do. And parenting is much more about the simple look, the one that upon closer inspection you see those fine details. It may not be a wow piece to anyone else, but you see the effort and you know what went into that moment. When I dropped our 4-year olds off at daycare and they didnt throw a fit-- that was huge for them. When my husband went to work and they trusted that he was coming home that night instead of going underway-- they have been so worried about Daddy leaving again. When the children play quietly in their rooms in the morning instead of running wild-- I have been working so hard with them on that and they are finally getting it. When our oldest packs his lunch each morning for school all by himself, without my help. When one of our boys takes it upon himself to clean his space and tidy up their shared bathroom-- on his own-- because he wants to help. When our boys find a game that includes all of them, even the toddler, and play together upstairs. When our oldest picks a book at school specifically to read to his brothers when he gets home that afternoon, "I really thought they would love this one." These are small but beautiful things. These are the moments of parenting to look at and focus on. Not the times where I dragged them out for an entire day at the doctors office and ended with us all crying in the car on the way home because it was so exhausting. Or the times when strangers felt the need to tell me what a bad job Im doing. The moments I need to focus on are the ones where I see these small and beautiful blessings in our day to day life, when hard moments become slightly easier moments, or when new skills are developed and eventually perfected. When new interests take root and when family moments happen in the middle of normally busy times of day.

I need to focus on the moments of parenting where it all comes together harmoniously, to reflect on them and the feelings I had during them. I need to stop judging myself so harshly on what went into creating those moments and let them stand on their own, because when it all comes together, even briefly, it is beautiful.

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pregnancy losing weight first trimester | FERTILITY CHARTING BBT MAY NOT WORK

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I know many women and couples rely on fertility charting to determine the best days to conceive.  I tried this method for a while but I wasnt very successful with it.  I found it difficult to really know if I was getting an accurate reading of my temperature...that is if I remembered to do it at the right time.

The problem with charting is that it detects a change in temperature after ovulation has occurred.  Most experts agree, and most studies support that sperm need to be ready and waiting before a woman ovulates.  Many couples who use the charting BBT method as a form of birth control have many unplanned pregnancies due to its unreliability.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON FERTILITY CHARTING AND ITS PITFALLS (getpregnantover40.com)

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post pregnancy weight loss foods | ARE ONIONS AND GARLIC GOOD FOR FERTILITY

post pregnancy weight loss foods

Yes! Onions and Garlic have many healthy qualities especially if you are trying to get pregnant. When I was trying to conceive, I would put onions and garlic in everything I could think of. They’re great raw or cooked in most recipes. Onions and garlic are a great way to season most dishes because they have so much flavor, you can use less salt and fat. Onions and garlic are in the “allium” family. These are rich in sulfur-containing amino acids and the anti-oxidant quercetin that helps regulate estrogen.
Much has been written about the medicinal qualities of both onions and garlic and they are also phytoestrogens. There are xenoestrogens (bad) and phytoestrogens (good).

SEE ALSO: FERTILITY DIET, FERTILITY FOODS (getpregnantover40.com)

Xenoestrogen literally means “foreign estrogen”. These xenoestrogens mimic estrogen in your system contributing to estrogen dominance. Xenoestrogens are stored in the body for an extended period of time leading to a number of conditions which ultimately contribute to infertility.

Phytoestrogens, on the other hand, are plant based substances which also mimic estrogens (phytoestrogen means “plant estrogen”), however they are weaker and they differ from xenoestrogens because they are actually beneficial. Phytoestrogens bind with estrogen receptors keeping out the stronger more harmful estrogens (like xenoestrogens). Phytoestrogens are not stored in the body and are easily broken down.

So if youre looking to regulate your estrogen, throw onions and garlic in all your cooking! If youre worried about your breath, brush your teeth and tongue with baking soda afterward. Bon Apetit!


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