Anti-HIV gel proven safe, tolerable for women A gel using anti-HIV drug tenofovir to shield women from AIDS has been proven safe for daily use and acceptable to women, study findings showed Tuesday. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the...

Audio Books Are Beneficial For Kids Audio books are created when an actor, actress or someone paid to read, reads from the book. Some offer embellished accents for certain lines and conversations. A common misconception is that the listener will become lost in the monotonous drone of children...

The main types of breast cancer are Lobular carcinoma and Ductal carcinoma. Lobular carcinoma is fairly similar in behavior to ductal carcinoma but it begins in the milk secreting glands present in the breast. Ductal carcinoma, which accounts for more than about 75 percent of breast cancers starts...

When most people are diagnosed with mesothelioma, it comes as a blow to them and they are shattered. They are unable to collect their senses and think logically and practically. They become deeply & emotionally upset. Therefore, they fail to take any legal action as they feel all this will add more...

There are differences of opinion in the medical community about the value of mammography among women under the age of 50, as shown in Table 1. Some people feel that even if only a few deaths are preventable, the time spent, anxiety, additional testing and well worth the discomfort. Others feel that...

Ever since puberty, my nipples and areola has always been an erogenous zone. This sensitivity has not lessened during their development during my pregnancy. In fact it has increased. While my husband finds this quite rewarding during foreplay, I am embarrassingly worried that the results may be...

DH and I will spend 36 hours away from the kids next week. DS (15 months) feeds 3-4 times a day and I've expressed enough for him for the duration, but I'm wondering if I should take my Avent Isis with me on our 1 night holiday (DH's work's supplier has paid for us to fly down to Sydney for their...

In the past 2 weeks a few family members have started making noises about me weaning H (14 mo). I guess I'll have to start putting together some good comebacks. Usually I ream off the WHO recommendations, but I need some other comments for a particular family member who will always say something...

The actual thing and not the newsgroup ;)........ Just curious to see if this could be "normal" .. details (not too graphic but still not to savoury) follow.

A letter appeared in our local paper this week, describing the "lack of manners" and "indecent exposure" that a bf woman and bub displayed in a local furniture store (apparently the woman's crime was to bf her bub on a chair that was for sale in view of everyone and let "the baby hang from...

X-posted to mkp and mkb I wrote a couple of weeks ago to say that my body was out of whack post D&C as "AF" was only a tiny little bit of brown spotting ... well it turned out to be implantation spotting. I got a +ve hpt last Thursday (5.5 weeks after a D&C at 9w1d), but wasn't sure if I could...

Well, its 1 year since our DD arrived in this world and we couldn't be happier. I originally planned on bf her until today but, thanks to this group, I now have no desire to wean her - I shall wait for her to decide to wean herself. We are having a family dinner and birthday pressents tonight and...

"Dawn Lawson" wrote in message ... Well, got DS weighed and measured today at health unit. at 2 days shy of a year, he weighed (dressed in cloth diapy, shorts and T) 19lbs 11oz and is 28 inches tall (roughly, he liked their mobile) Looks on my...

Is anyone experiencing an epidemic in stupid comments from well-meaning (but stupid) people lately? I met a woman at playgroup yesterday (who's DS is about the same age as my DD) who was absolutely flabbergasted when she found out that not only am I "still" breastfeeding DD (almost 14 mo), but...

Well, I stopped pumping today. A bittersweet moment. Its just not worth it anymore as I can barely get an ounce now, even with DD ( 14 mo) feeding from the other side. I have only ever pumped once a day for almost a year and I've gone from getting 4 oz per side, to 4 oz total whilst nursing DD /...

"A&G&K" wrote in message ... X-posted to mkb and mkp Hi all, Just thought I'd post an update on me.... I had a D&C just over 2 weeks ago when I was 9w1d into the new pg. We were both pretty down about this,...

I posted this message to mkp earlier today, but thought I'd ask people here for an opinion also ..... Hmmmm, I was so sure AF was starting after a tiny bit of spotting on Tuesday (29 days since the D&C) ... guess I jumped the gun as there's been nothing since. The bleeding from the D&C had...

Oh dear, The *&^% date on my computer has rearranged itself again ... sorry. I've fixed in the computer (I hope) but any ideas on how to fix it on the message? Amanda

I've tried to cancel it twice now but the original won't go away. Anyone got the answer on how to remove it (or at least change the date so its not so annoying). Cheers Amanda

"Richard" wrote in message ... Occasionally, especially when tired, Micaela, now 9 1/2 months, exercises her vocal chords by repeating a constant pitch, constant volume note: "aaaaaah". A few days ago, she started this, and I decided to...