How funny.
I just got back from parent-teacher conferances. I figured it was likely I’d end up having a tie at the school. And not just Amy’s kids. As it turns out, Caramon’s teacher has a son who was in band with me. Her husband was on the pit crew. He graduated a year after me. And the Latin Teacher’s kid is in this class as well. ROFL.
I’m sure there are other ties, but anyway… I just thought that was funny.
In other news, the kids seem to be doing well in class. Need to work on several common things. Handwriting, basic behaviour (remember to be quiet and not get upset when disciplined). I’m proud of my boys. They are super smart and just love school and learning. I’m happy. 🙂
Lady Ozma's Journey 
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i know you don’t know me but i read your journal and i have seen what you and your family has been through with your son and then i also saw where you cared enough about this baby and had her webpage on your main home page and i thought you would like to see what some people think about her mother…..
here is the link to see for yourself…..i think it is sad after all she has been through…..http://www.livejournal.com/community/booju_mooju/
I just read this story about an 8 month old baby dying from leukemia. She was not breastfed. Breastfeeding reduces the risk of leukemia, and the longer you do it, the more it reduces the risk. Studies show infants that breastfed for at least one month had a 21 percent lower risk of developing leukemia. For infants who breastfed for six months, the leukemia risk was reduced by up to 30 percent. So what about nursing for a year, or more? Couldn’t hurt, might help.
If my baby was dying of leukemia and I had not breastfed, I’d kill myself.
And then there are the kids who make it through childhood alive, and without any serious physical affects from having been fed formula as a baby. That kid grows up, and has kids of her own, who she doesn’t breastfeed. Then at 30, she finds out she has breast cancer. She agonizes over treatment options, financial strain, marital problems and the possibility of dying and leaving her kids without a mother. Your heart breaks watching your adult child go through this, and you wonder how you will care for her children if she dies when you live in a studio apartment on social security.
Guess what? Women who were formula-fed as infants have higher rates of breast cancer as adults. For both premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer, women who were breastfed as children, even if only for a short time, had a 25% lower risk of developing breast cancer than women who were bottle-fed as infants. So you could have prevented your adult daughters untimely death and the orphaning of her children who grew up to be serial killers because they missed their mother. Ok, so that last part might not happen, but you get my point. Women who have a ‘history’ of breast cancer, often also have a family history where women don’t breastfeed long enough. CRY ME A RIVER.
So back to this poor innocent baby. You don’t want this to happen to you, right? BREASTFEED! Make your wives breastfeed! Make your daughters breastfeed! If you can’t supply enough milk for your baby because you have a legit medical reason, give them what you DO have for as long as you can. This kind of shit is so preventable. Even if your child does get a disease which has a reduced risk of occurance in breastfed children, at least you’ll know you did everything you could to make them healthy.
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