February 27, 2011 in Uncategorized by northcoastNOW
February 27, 2011 in Uncategorized by Lorain County Moms
By ARIAN SMEDLEY, For The Associated Press
ATHENS, OHIO — After a week of pain, sleepless nights and dread at the thought of the next feeding, new mother Paula Linscott was on the brink of giving up her attempts to nurse.
“It took like a month or two before it stopped hurting,” said the Ph.D. candidate at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. “I thought it was just going to be fine, like it was this natural thing you do.”
Nipples can crack and bleed. Breasts can become engorged with milk. If done correctly, breast-feeding is painless and easy, but many women face challenges like Linscott. An expert to help can be difficult to find, despite the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendation that babies should get breast milk exclusively for six months (no water, formula or solids) with continued breast-feeding for at least a year.
Most women want to breast-feed and try to do it, but few stick with it, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control 2010 Breastfeeding Report Card, released in December. The report said that the number of babies breast-fed at least once while in the hospital reached a record 75 percent. But only 43 percent of mothers are still breast-feeding at six months, and just 22 percent are still doing it at 12 months.
Linscott eventually prevailed with help from a lactation consultant and support from her husband. Many hospitals have lactation consultants on duty for new mothers; some even make house calls. If you’re already at home, you may be able to hire a lactation consultant with a private practice.
Another option is to get involved with La Leche, even before you give birth. The organization helps breast-feeding moms through peer-to-peer support, often by holding meetings in neighborhood homes and other localities where women can informally gather, make friends with other nursing moms and get advice.
You also need to learn when the baby is really hungry. “Crying is a late sign of hunger,” says Jennifer Cochran, a La Leche League Leader based in Athens, and mother of two. “By the time they’ve reached the crying state, they’re already distressed.” A distressed baby can be hard to position properly, especially for an inexperienced mom, she said.
Some mothers — especially those who need to go back to work soon or whose babies were born prematurely — use manual or electric pumps to express milk, which is then fed to the baby with a bottle. It’s considered the best alternative to feeding at the breast, according to health officials.
Some women think their milk supply is inadequate, but often other factors are at play — engorged breasts, problems with the baby’s tongue, even lack of confidence. Lactation consultants can often help solve these issues. In rare cases where mothers can’t nurse but want to feed breast milk anyway, donated human milk from a milk bank may be an option, though it can be expensive and hard to find.
Women often turn to doctors for nursing advice, but surprisingly, “physicians are uniquely uneducated in this area,” said Dr. Karla Shepard Rubinger, executive director of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.
The academy’s co-founder, Dr. Ruth Lawrence, began her crusade to educate doctors after realizing that women weren’t getting good advice from them. “I thought to myself, ‘Things aren’t going to change until every physician knows how good breast milk is and knows how it happens,’ ” said Lawrence, a professor of pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and author of the textbook, “Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession.”
Formula is the only option for some mothers. Some can’t manage nursing with a preemie or if they have to return to work with an infant at home.
Still, Linscott stresses, mothers who want to breast-feed should keep this in mind: “If it hurts, you’re not doing it right. You need to get help, and it’ll be fine.”
February 27, 2011 in Uncategorized by northcoastNOW
DERRIK J. LANG
AP Entertainment Writer
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - “Biutiful,” the haunting tale of a cancer-stricken father and one of this year’s five foreign language Academy Award nominees, would never have been made today, the film’s director, Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarritu, said Saturday during a panel at theAcademy’s headquarters.
He said he doesn’t think he would be able to find funding.
“I started shooting literally one month before the economic collapse in 2008,” Gonzalez-Inarritu said. “This film would never be financed again. The fact that he’s dying? It would just be impossible to make a film like that again. I was really privileged with the resources that I had. The budget I had was like $20 million, so it was expensive for a film like this.”
That figure seems meager when compared to such Oscar contenders as “Inception” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1,” whose budgets were in the $200 million range. But Gonzalez-Inarritu said finding distribution for the Mexican film, which stars best-actor nominee Javier Bardem, was difficult in the United States because of the film’s dark tone.
The other nominated foreign-language filmmakers were envious of the “Biutiful” budget. Yorgos Lanthimos, the Greek director of the overprotective family drama “Dogtooth,” said the debt crisis in his country, which funds the production of approved Greek films, made it tougher to shoot his next film. He said “Dogtooth” originally cost about $250,000 to make.
“It’s really difficult to raise the money,” said Lanthimos. “I did my next film with even less than that. I don’t know how much it will cost me in the end. It’s really difficult when the Greek Film Center doesn’t have money. We know the situation with Greece. My next film was approved to be funded by the Greek Film Center, but they don’t have any money.”
Rachid Bouchareb, the Algerian director of “Outside the Law,” said he didn’t have to battle a budget to make his film about three Algerian siblings in France during Algeria’s struggle for independence, but he did have to fend off controversy in France where “Outside the Law” was intensely criticized for its depiction of Algeria’s fight for liberation.
Susanne Bier, the Danish director of “In a Better World,” insisted that any financial limitations spurred creativity while making her film about a pair of separated parents and their bullied son.
Denis Villeneuve, the Canadian director of the Middle East drama “Incendies,” said he only filmed scenes that would end up in the film in order not to waste money.
“What you see on the screen,” said Villeneuve, “is what we shot.”
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February 26, 2011 in Uncategorized by Lorain County Moms
By SUE MANNING, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Is your teen a couch potato? A new study suggests the family dog might be able to help.
Researchers had 618 kids ranging from 12 to 16 wear accelerometers for a week to measure their physical activity. Half the families had dogs and half did not.
The study showed the kids in families with dogs got 32.1 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise per day, while those without dogs got 29.5 minutes. The difference isn’t much, but lead author John R. Sirard said it’s big enough to suggest more study be done.
Parents of the teens also wore the lightweight devices, but the difference in activity levels between adults in the two groups was nonexistent, Sirard said, suggesting the kids might have been the ones taking the dogs out. The families were not asked who cared for the dogs.
The study, done at the University of Minnesota, was one of the first to examine the relationship between adolescents and dogs. Sirard, a professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, said the research didn’t take into account the size or breed of the dog, the safety of the neighborhoods where the families lived or the level of attachment the kids had to the pets.
It’s also possible that more active families were the ones that decided to get dogs in the first place, he said.
The study was funded by the National Cancer Institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. Results appear in the March issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
“I do think dogs could make a difference,” said Dr. Antronette Yancey, a health services professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. “As a dog owner myself, I can say that dogs are extremely consistent prompts to get you out and walking.”
Yancey, who wrote the book “Instant Recess: How to Build a Fit Nation for the 21st Century,” agreed more research was needed. “Sometimes these little clues that you get from a small study can actually burgeon into something that’s very meaningful,” she said.
We already know a few things about the impact of pets on health, Yancey said. “We know pets are good for older people and good for lowering blood pressure and a variety of other reasons, so if they are also good for physical activity, great.”
The dogs were not studied, Sirard said, so there is no way to know if less active dogs put on weight or experienced any other side effects. He hopes to follow up with a larger sample and more questions, and he might put accelerometers on the dogs as well as the humans next time.
First, he’ll practice with his 3-year-old, 25-pound mixed terrier Della. The two go walking and running every morning, then his 8-year-old daughter takes care of him the rest of the time.
