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Have I got a blog recommendation for you

Marijke Durning, RN — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:12:40 +0000

Sometimes blogs on pregnancy can get a bit too serious (like this one sometimes). We need to remember the lighter side of life and for this, I share with you a blog I just found yesterday. Love it! And – it’s for dads too. A whole section in the forum is for guys only.

The blog is called His Boys Can Swim and this is the post that drew my attention to it: List of 51 pregnancy old wives tales: Your baby’s sex revealed!

Have a peak at it and have some fun.

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Have I got a blog recommendation for you

100 top blogs in pregnancy and pregnancy-related issues

Marijke Durning, RN — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:58:44 +0000

I received a nice email this morning from Kelly of the blog/site Ultrasound Technician Schools.

There, you will find a list of the top 100 blogs for expecting mothers. The list is divided by category:

General
Pregnancy
Babies
Postpartum
Labor and Delivery
Working Moms
Celebrity Babies
Food & Breastfeeding
Baby Gear
Moms
Dads
Advice
News

You’ll find Womb Within in the Advice section.

Thanks to Kelly for including Womb Within and for letting me know!

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100 top blogs in pregnancy and pregnancy-related issues

pssst… a little self promotion

Marijke Durning, RN — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:14:25 +0000

Hi folks – some of you are regular readers and some of you are new here so you may know know about my other work. I do write some other blogs, including two others for b5media. But, another one of my blogs, called Marijke: Nurse Turned Writer, is one that I write just for health information when something catches my interest.

Now, I have a question for you. Marijke: Nurse Turned Writer is in the running for Best Canadian Blog. But to win that, I need votes. Lots of them. Any chance you may be interested in checking out the blog and then voting if you like it?

Thanks!!!

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Postpartum Progress blog named in Top 10 Mental Health blogs

Marijke Durning, RN — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:24:03 +0000

Congratulations to Katherine Stone and her wonderful blog, Postpartum Progress. Postpartum Progress as been named as one of the top 10 mental health blogs, as determined by blogs.com, the best in blogs.

Katherine is one busy woman. She is a vocal advocate for women who live with postpartum mood disorders and she was named one of WebMD’s 2008 Health Heroes for her work. Her "About" section on her blog exhausts me!

If you haven’t looked at her blog yet, I strongly encourage you to. Postpartum mental health is an issue that still needs a lot of help and if I can help just a bit by sending you over there, I like to think I may make a difference in someone’s life.

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Postpartum Progress blog named in Top 10 Mental Health blogs

Remembrance Day – Lest We Forget

Marijke Durning, RN — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:09:30 +0000

Veteran’s Day in the United States, Remembrance Day here in Canada. Regardless of the name, the sentiment is the same.

As our veterans age and succumb to age and illness, there are fewer and fewer who remember. The symbol of the poppy, worn in Canada to remember those who fought in past wars and who are on peacekeeping missions now, is being seen less and less on the streets and sidewalks of our country.

I was born of Dutch parents who lived through WWII. They remember the Canadian soldiers as they liberated the Netherlands. They remember the Canadian soldiers who rescued them from starving to death.

Never forget the power of good and what it can do over evil.

Terry Kelly, a singer from Canada’s maritimes, came across a situation in 1999, when he was in a grocery store that was observing two minutes of silence at 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month. All were observing, except for one man who was there with his young daughter.

What came of this encounter was a beautiful song called A Pittance of Time, written for us to remember the past. I encourage you to click on the link and listen and watch.

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Image: Marijke Vroomen-Durning

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Remembrance Day – Lest We Forget

It’s Postpartum Progress’ 4th birthday

Marijke Durning, RN — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:56:10 +0000

Happy 4th Birthday to a very valuable resource on the Internet, Postpartum Progess. Moms (and dads) who need to learn about postpartum depression, I encourage you to visit the site. Four years is a long time in the Internet world.

Images: istock and Newscom

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Tooting the Health & Wellness channel horn

Marijke Durning, RN — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:20:18 +0000

I know I’m going to have to work even harder on my blogs to catch up to some of my fellow Health & Wellness colleagues here at b5media.

Check this out:

eDrugsearch.com released its Healthcare 100.com- “The Worlds Top Blogs On Health and Medicine” for the year 2008 and it includes 7 Health and Wellness channel blogs.

Congrats to Alicia, Liz, Liberty, Kristina, Kristen, Ruth, Elaine, and Kendra. Very nice job everyone!

# 6 – Healthbolt

# 19 – Autism Vox

# 52 – Lively Women

#54 – Mental Health Notes

# 57 – Eating Fabulous

# 80 – Genetics and Health

# 83 – A Hearty Life

# 91 - Diabetes Notes

Hmm, no Womb Within or Help My Hurt - I’m going to have to work on that!

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Tooting the Health & Wellness channel horn

Disaboom: Disability and Pregnancy, Part 4—Week 17

Marijke Durning, RN — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:40:00 +0000

Follow Muffy Davis as she posts about her pregnancy on Disaboom: Disability and Pregnancy, Part 4—Week 17.

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Disaboom: Disability and Pregnancy, Part 4—Week 17

“Teenage pregnancy” stigmatizing, prejudicial concept

Marijke Durning, RN — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:25:39 +0000

Well, I’m as guilty as most others who jumped on the band wagon about the so-called pregnancy pact that never was. The amount of uproar over that headline far outweighed any reports that the story wasn’t true. I guess that’s always the way when errors are made in media. After all, look at retractions in newspapers. The original stories may be front-line news, but a retraction would be buried in a sidebar on some page inside.

Here is an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times that discusses how our “increasing obsession with teenage pregnancy over the last three
decades” made it “inevitable that sensational stories such as Gloucester
High School’s mythical pregnancy pact would generate a media frenzy.” Take a look at the opinion piece: The real mistake in ‘teen pregnancy’.

What do you think?

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Mood swings – is there a way to avoid, or at least minimize them?

Marijke Durning, RN — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:42:52 +0000

I think we’ve all either been part of or have witnessed the effects of hormonal mood swings. One moment everything is just great and the next, well, the next minute, it’s time to duck for cover.

As much as people do joke about it, it’s not fun being the one having the mood swings any more than it is to be on the receiving end. It’s frustrating to feel like your feelings and reactions are just out of your control.

This blog, Mom Squawk, has a post on How to minimize mood swings during pregnancy.

What do you think? Have you had mood swings? What do you do about them?

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