Bug Bites

My friend's wife has a fantastic blog called Yes Five, as she has yes...five children! She's a doctor of family medicine currently staying at home and has some great posts as well as being a regular contributor now to ABC's Good Morning America's Health segements.

See her segment on bug bites here!

New Year - update

So, nearly a month has gone by - time to check on how the new year plans are going!

Get Healthy
Sleep

• Completed sleep re-training - hooray! Martin's still up at 5am for a bit, but 8pm-5am is a good start
  
• Got the supplies for bedroom partition, now just have to install
  
• Getting to bed by 11pm some nights, so slowly better
  

Nutrition

• Jodi from Citrition came to visit this week and we're off to a great start! Week 1 of 4 goal: eat fruit with breakfast everyday for everybody (13yr old, 13 mo old, and parents - many months old!)
  
• Have been cooking at least 4 days per week
  
• Leftovers have not made it to work much. Gotta grab those on way out the door.
  
• Need more variety, next shopping trip - i promise!
  
• Taking vitamins at least every other day
  

Exercise

• Met with trainer and got a good supplemental routine. That said, have not been to the gym as much as I want. Hopefully will be less crazy by next week
  
• Teenager has been going to martial arts regularly - Go Maggie!
  
• Baby loves visiting the Museum of Natural History on the weekends. Could care less about the exhibits...loves to run in the wide open halls!

Get Organized

• Created the chore list, just need to actually print and put into action
  
• Event list there, just need to fill/check it
  
• Goals list - yeah....should make one of these

Get Happy

• Yoga - making time for practice every other day...progress
  
• Bath - haven't gotten to that yet (for relaxation that is...have bathed this year)
  
• Walk - getting a bit more in :)
  
• Read - lots more of this, might even get to bookclub meeting this month!
  
• Visit - Noodles with Lynn yesterday, check!
  
• ReConnect - date night Feb 7, check!

Overall, not bad progress. Will keep striving to strive and find reasons to smile through the chaos!
'Til next time,
It's a BusyLife,
Danielle

H1N1 Update teleconferences Oct 8 and 9

In an effort to give you the most up to date information about the H1N1virus, the White House Office of Public Engagement, in coordination withthe Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease Controland Prevention, will hold informational conference calls on this subject.Below is a list of conference call information pertaining to differentcommunities. Please feel free to join any number of these calls. Topicswill include prevention, the importance of vaccination, vaccine safety andavailability.


THURSDAY, October 8
11:00a EDT H1N1, Pregnant Women and Maternal Health
Participant: (800) 553-0327
Title: Maternal Health H1N1 Call *Provide in lieu of passcode*


1:00p EDT General H1N1 Outreach Call with Organizations of AnyBackground
Participant: (800) 230-1085
Title: H1N1 Briefing *Provide in lieu of passcode*


1:45p EDT H1N1 and Children Under 5 and Children with High-RiskConditions
Participant: (800) 288-8961
Title: Children H1N1 *Provide in lieu of passcode*


2:00p EDT H1N1 and Persons with Cancer and non-HIVImmunosuppressive Conditions
Participant: (800) 230-1096
Title: Cancer H1N1 Call *Provide in lieu of passcode*


2:00p EDT H1N1 and African Americans
Participant: (800) 288-8960
Title: African American H1N1 Call *Provide in lieu of passcode*


7:00p EDT H1N1 and Pacific Islanders
Participant: (800) 230-1059
Title: Pacific Islanders H1N1 Call *Provide in lieu of passcode*


FRIDAY, October 9
11:00a EDT H1N1 and Persons with HIV/AIDS
Participant: (800) 288-8961
Title: HIV\AIDS H1N1 Call *Provide in lieu of passcode*


12:00p EDT H1N1 and Persons with Cardiovascular Disease
Participant: (800) 230-1951
Title: Cardiovascular H1N1 Call*Provide in lieu of passcode*


1:00p EDT H1N1 and Persons with Diabetes
Participant: (800) 230-1085
Title: Diabetes H1N1 *Provide in lieu of passcode*


1:00p EDT H1N1 and Persons with Asthma
Participant: (800) 230-1074
Title: Asthma H1N1 Call *Provide in lieu of passcode*


2:00p EDT H1N1 and Persons with Disabilities
Participant: (800) 230-1951
Title: Disabilities H1N1 Call *Provide in lieu of passcode*


2:00p EDT H1N1, Immigrants and non-English speakers (andincluding Latino and Asian organizations)
Participant: (800) 230-1096
Title: Immigrants\Non English Speaking H1N1 *Provide in lieu of passcode*

how will cnbc viewing affect baby development?

Even at 8 weeks, I see my son recognizing the television as he would another person in the room speaking (As I type, Go Diego Go! is buying me 15 minutes to the next feeding). The TV isn't on all day, but I have to wonder how my news-phile tendencies will affect my son's little brain.  Will my son trend toward finance? Will exposure repel him? Will it matter? Will he be irreparably scarred after a Jim Cramer segment?

There have been reports of passive TV watching being harmful to attention spans, but at what age? My older child, now 12 yrs old, started to show behavioral issues by age 2 from too much tv, to which we promptly cut tv time down to 1 hr a day from 2 hrs, but is there anything out on infants and benefits/detriments of tv? If so, doesn't that include the oh so hyped Baby Einstein series?  We tried to sit thru a Baby Einstein video and while my son was somewhat engaged, how do parents survive them? 

Why do i bother drinking coffee?

Caffeine seems to have the same effect as pushing the 'door close' button of an elevator. It's there for one to use, but doesn't seem to speed things up meaningfully more than if one had waited it out.

Why do i bother drinking coffee?

Caffeine seems to have the same effect as pushing the 'door close' button of an elevator. It's there for one to use, but doesn't seem to speed things up meaningfully more than if one had waited it out.