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From: RABINOWITZ@VAX5.BEAR.COM (Ari)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Re: Preventive Antibiotics
Date: 29 Dec 92 20:31:04 GMT
Organization: BEAR STEARNS & CO.
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In <29059@oasys.dt.navy.mil> dsegelho@oasys.dt.navy.mil writes:

> Well, Carrie has her fourth (or is it the fifth) ear infection of the
> winter.  When her previous one was diagnosed, the pediatrician mentioned
> the possibility of preventive antibiotics for the rest of the winter
> if she got another one.  The urgent care doctor diagnosed this latest

Anna was on preventive antibiotics all of last fall, winter, and spring
after having many ear infections the previous year.  We knew it was
helping because in 1991 she reached her insurance deductible of $250
by the middle of February, while in 1992 she didn't reach her deductible
until May.  Fortunately, Anna is very good about taking medicine, so the
daily dose of Amoxicilin was not a problem.  She was able to take the
chewable tablets so every night she asked for her "chew medicine".

The down side is that this past fall she had a sinus infection for
which the doctor prescribed Amoxicilin again.  She developed a fever and
hives which were attributed to an allergic reaction to the Amoxicilin,
so she is now officially considered allergic to penicillin derivatives,
which limits our treatment possibilities in the future.  I'm not sure
if the daily doses caused her subsequent sensitivity to the drug, but
I strongly suspect it.
 
> On a happier note, Carrie pulled herself up to standing on Christmas
> day!  I'll bet I've got another early walker.

Good luck with that.  Jake was an early walker but Anna was content to
just sit and watch her big brother so she crawled and walked late.  Of
course now she is a talker.  She will say more in one hour than Jake
will say in a whole week :-).
 
> Diane Segelhorst
> dsegelho@oasys.dt.navy.mil
> Mom to brad, 2.5 years, and Carrie, 6 months

Ari Rabinowitz  (father to Jake 5 Years and Anna 2.7 years)

Ari Rabinowitz                  rabinowitz@bear.com for VMS and personal mail
WorkStation Administrator	ari@bear.com for sun/HP Un*x mail
Bear Stearns
From: majch@kodak.com (Kelly Majchrzak)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Re: Stop Grabbing Your Penis!
Date: 22 Dec 92 15:52:45 GMT
Reply-To: majch@kodak.com (Kelly Majchrzak)
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Organization: Image Processing Algorithms Laboratory, Eastman Kodak Co.

In article <BzM3rw.JAK@acsu.buffalo.edu>, oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown) writes:
|> In article <1992Dec21.130545.9359@cbnews.cb.att.com>, ran@cbnews.cb.att.com (Robert A. Neinast) writes...
|> > 
|> > 
|> >I tried asking him once *why* he was grabbing his penis, and he
|> >said, "Because it makes it bigger".  Uh, well, yes, I suppose it does.
|> > 
|> >Does anybody out there have any suggestions on how to curb this
|> >undesirable behavior (at least in public).
|> 
|> 
|> A few thoughts:
|> 
|> What is his motivation for doing this?  
|> 
|> 1.) Needs to pee.  (I've noticed other little boys grab it when
|>     they have to pee.)  
|> 
|> 2.) It feels good.
|>     2A.) Feels good and relieves stress.
|>  
| 

This off the original subject, but does it really feel good at that age??  Do
3 year olds really have feelings in "down there"??  My 2.5 yo daughter touches
herself in the bathtub sometimes, but I thought it was because she found 
something new - like sticking your finger in your bellybutton - not because
it felt good.

kelly
From: cooper@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lynette Cooper)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Re: Is my baby eating too much?
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:51:16 GMT
Reply-To: cooper@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lynette Cooper)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In misc.kids, jill@sol.asl.hitachi.com (Jill Boyce) writes:
>
>My advice is not to trust the nurse, but to insist on talking to the doctor abo
>ut
>it.  And if you don't like the doctor's advice, try finding another whose advic
>e
>you do like.  Good luck.
>

Why not just keep your doctor and follow your instincts :-).

			     Lynn Cooper
Newsgroups: misc.kids
From: sandy@anasazi.com (Sandy Young)
Subject: Re: Urinary Tract Infection - 3YO
Organization: Anasazi, Inc.  Phoenix, Arizona USA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:33:57 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.183655.185@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> jackie8@dasher.cc.bellcore.com () writes:
>My brother and SIL have a 3yo daughter
>and her doctor recently told them that they should
>have a specialist look at her. He thought she looked
>like she had a urinary tract infection and that it
>wasn't good for a child of her age to have that.
>
>They have two friends w/kids who had similar problems
>and their kids are fine and so now I guess
>they're not as worried as they were when the doctor first
>told them to go see a specialist.
>
>Thanks.
>Jackie
  My step-daughter seemed to have a consistant UTI, from the age of 4 to
  about 6. She had micro surgery when she was 3 mos old, a bilateral
  transplant of the ureathra (?SP), I think. Needless to say, my
  husband was very concerned about her, she seemed sick all the time.

  Then one day, I had this brilliant thought, I asked her how she
  wiped herself after going potty, (both kinds). She said `from the front
  of course.' 

  Well, I gave her the big speach on how girls were made, and how she
  should really do it. She made a good effert, with some reminding,
  and the UTI's seemed to disapear over night. (Well almost!)

  I was really shocked that her mother didn't think to tell her any of
  this, being an LPN. But her mother didn't share a lot of personal
  hygiene hints with her either.....go figure!

  And (no flames, please) her father did'nt think it would make a 
  difference either!!


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From: pburch@roc.mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu (Paula Burch)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Re: Aspirin for Pregnancy Induced Hypertension?
Date: 21 Dec 1992 15:15:15 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
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In article <1992Dec18.225944.25967@nas.nasa.gov>, tanner@sundog.nas.nasa.gov 
(Leigh Ann Tanner) writes:
> In article <1992Dec15.203851.16466@xn.ll.mit.edu>, rsteele@adam.ll.mit.edu 
(Rob Steele) writes:
> |> We've seen some studies that suggest 80-150 mg/day of aspirin reduces  
> |> PIH.  Anyone tried it?
> |> 
> 
> I didn't think women were supposed to take aspirin at
> all while pregnant.

That's true in cases where toxemia is not expected, but has NOTHING to 
do with what Rob Steele asked.

Aspirin is slightly too risky to be worth taking in pregnancy if there is 
no strong need for it, but the very low dose aspirin he was talking about 
probably prevents a lot of cases of very dangerous illness and risk of 
death to both mother and baby. (I say `probably' just from the point of 
view of a researcher who hasn't thoroughly reviewed the literature.)

Aspirin in pregnancy should be taken only under the advice and continuing 
care of a high-risk obstetrician, but for some individuals, it can literally 
be a life-saver.

Paula Burch
pburch@bcm.tmc.edu
Newsgroups: misc.kids
From: bwolfe@trentu.ca (BEN WOLFE)
Subject: Re: Here a study, there a study
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Trent Computing and Telecommunications Department
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:46:00 GMT

reid@metis.tti.com (Reid Kneeland) writes:

> Studies, and statistical inference in general, are the foundation of
> modern science.  Done properly, they are the only way that general
> conclusions can be draw from available data.  While no one study is
> definitive, one can draw meaningful conclusions by looking at all the
> studies, looking critically at the methodologies involved, and looking
> at patterns which emerge.  Saying that X is or isn't true because a
> particular study said so is not valid reasoning if most other valid
> studies have indicated otherwise.  But it is just as wrong to throw out
> the whole idea of studies and statistics because of apparent
> contradictions.  There will always be evidence on both sides of any
> medical issue; the question is where the *preponderance* of evidence 
> from well-constructed studies lies.

Yes, absolutely. And in the field of pregnancy and childbirth there has
recently been a more than 10-year effort to sum up the best studies
of the last three decades and draw whatever conclusions are possible.
The effort was headed by an international team that included Canada's
most distinguished obstetrician (Murray Enkin) and one of Britain's
leading epidemiologists (Iain Chalmers). The project was overseen
by Oxford University Press, perhaps the English-speaking world's
most authoritative publisher.

The result is an enormous and exceptionally valuable two volume
set of books called "Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth." This
set does exactly what the above-quoted post suggests: it determines
"where the preponderance of evidence from well-constructed
studies lies" in each of dozens of key areas of perinatal care.

The two-volume set costs a small fortune and is only readily available
at medical, nursing and midwifery schools, but Oxford also issued
a paperback synopsis of the whole that gives all key conclusions. It's
called "A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth," and cost
$22.50 Canadian when we bought it. Though its medical language can
be weighty, this volume is THE current authoritative source on 
medical issues in maternity care.

Among other things, it lists a large number of very common
procedures which either have "unknown effects which require
further evaluation" or "should be abandoned in the light of the
available evidence." If you're debating certain procedures with your
doctor, "Effective Care" may give you the evidence you need to avoid
them.

This is research at its most useful.
From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Re: Stop Grabbing Your Penis!
Date: 22 Dec 1992 05:53:41 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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I have a dim memory of an article in some medical journal in which the
author said he had found penis clutching to be correlated with an abnormally
small opening of the urethra at the tip of the penis. ("meatal stenosis"
he called it).  Your mileage may vary, but it's something to ask your
doctor to inspect for.
-- 
haynes@cats.ucsc.edu
haynes@cats.bitnet

"Ya can talk all ya wanna, but it's dif'rent than it was!"
"No it aint!  But ya gotta know the territory!"
        Meredith Willson: "The Music Man"
From: larrabee@cse.ucsc.edu (Tracy Larrabee)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Re: Love you forever (was Re: Hormonally Enhanced
Date: 28 Dec 1992 22:51:29 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
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At my grandmother's funeral (last August) I read three two poems and a
slightly modified form of the "As long as I'm living, my mommy you'll
be" verse from that book ("Granny" substituted for "Mommy").  The
Vachel Lindsey and Thomas Hardey poems were intellectual hits, with
many requests from relatives for copies (especially "Written in a Year
When Many of My People Died"), but the "Love you forever" quatrain is
what really turned on the water works.

I discovered that book and gave it to my sister-in-law right after
her mother (my husband's mother) died.  I guess it was insensitive, because
she was mad at me about it for awhile.  (I don't work that way: I like it
when fiction or stories mirror my own tragedies because it helps me safely
exercise my excess of emotion.)  She seems to have forgiven me now, so
all is well.  You never know how to be good to people in pain.
--
Tracy Larrabee		larrabee@cse.ucsc.edu
From: valjorge@leapyear.EBay.Sun.COM (Valerie Jorge)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Re: Childcare Holiday standards
Date: 24 Dec 1992 18:46:18 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
Distribution: usa
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In article <27378@sybase.sybase.com> peac@sybase.com (Jeff Peacock) writes:
>I have a question for those of you who use day care.  How do your daycare
>providers charge for Holidays/Vacations?
>
>
>Thanks,
>Jeff
>--


We had to pay for both weeks, though Kevin wasn't going to go to
daycare at all.  He ended up there one day this week, and maybe
one day next week since we paid.  (My husband took his daughter
to a movie this week, and maybe next week when I'm home I can
get my hair cut).  

I don't feel bad paying because I get paid the whole 2 weeks,
even though I only had to work 4 of the 10 days.  I thought
if the daycare provider could find some other kid to watch
(she does watch some school age kids during school holidays)
she wouldn't charge us, but not the case.

We didn't really go through all this when we started with
her, but one other in-home provider had hers stated very
clearly.  You could take two weeks vacation during the
year, without paying her.  That was it.  If you took
more vacation time (I get 4 weeks) you just pay her for
the additional weeks whether you use her services or not.
Seems fair to me.  I pay only $100 per week, which is
a good price for this area so I don't feel bad paying, especially
during this time of year.

On a different note, I also bought our daycare provider a present
that cost about $100, keeping in line with the 1-week pay theory.
(I got her a nice cordless phone.  Her phone was a $14 bargain
I couldn't hear her on the other end unless she yelled).

So, my advice is to look at your work/vacation/pay plan at your
company.  I felt comfortable paying my provider because I
get 4 weeks paid vacation, 15 paid holidays, and sick time
as necessary.  I think she deserves the same.

Merry Christmas!

Valerie


Newsgroups: misc.kids
From: guido@island.COM (Guido Marx)
Subject: Re: A few facts about circumcision
Organization: Island Graphics Corp.  San Rafael, Ca.
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:49:58 GMT

In article <ksand-301292133445@wintermute.apple.com> ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik ) writes:
>In article <C002FG.1zz@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, msg7038@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
>(Michalis  Syrimis) wrote:
>> Is it true that many americans,irrespective of relegious
>> or ethnic background  have their newborn sons 
>> circumsised today?  If this is indeed so, what are the
>> reasons behind it?
>
>Well, when we got our son the nurses were jumping around in the 
>room wondering why we didn't want to circumsize our son. By which
>I answered "He's had a painful experience already, leave him alone".
>
>Yes, it seems this is something based on American tradition, and 
>where Europeans will get a shock if they have babies over here.

Well, it seems that this must depend partly upon where you live.  Our
son wasn't circumcised and neither are about 50% of the boy babies born
in Marin General.  Of our friends, the majority of the boys are
intact.  Ironically, it seems that most of the boys who were circumcised
were done because the FATHER wanted it done.  

BTW, I am circumcised and if I had been given the choice I would have
opted to remain intact.  I can't hold this against my parents however,
they were merely following what was considered to be "good medicine"
at the time I was born.

Guido


Newsgroups: misc.kids
From: AMY.UHRBACH@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Amy Uhrbach")
Subject: re: adding French
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:10:26 GMT

Yup, you're right Dena.  It is NATIVE fluency most people can't attain after
puberty.

BTW, there are some people for whom this doesn't seem to hold - they do pick
up languages easily, and develop true fluency.  Interestingly, there seems to
be a link between this skill and having learned MORE THAN ONE language as a
child!  I'm always mildly envious of them...:-)
From: cathl@odin (Catherine Lyman)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Re: Sign of the times
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:11:51 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <1992Dec14.185813.22839@cbnewse.cb.att.com>  
elonich@cbnewse.cb.att.com (diane.e.pedersen) writes:

(About dad's doing diapers....)
> Actually, I suspect this "phenomenom" is mostly due to the
> advent of disposable diapers and baby wipes, which makes
> changing a baby pretty easy and hard to do badly, even for
> the most diaper-impaired.
> 

I think it has more to do with MOTHERS who say...."you need to
be more involved with the day-to-day activities of raising your
child so that you can establish a close relationship early on. If
something happened to me one day, what would you do?"

It worked with us....and we used cloth diapers, diaper PINS, and no
baby wipes!

I have to admit, my husband can't handle it when the kids throw up. 
Everything else he pretty much takes in stride. I guess I'm bragging
a bit!
Newsgroups: misc.kids
From: mmeyer@m2.dseg.ti.com (Mark Meyer)
Subject: Re: tax deductions, (was Re: circumcision statistics)
Organization: TI DSEG, Spring Creek, Plano, Tx.
	<29DEC199212231083@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>
	<1992Dec29.181916.1479@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:23:22 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.181916.1479@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> lauraf@classy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Laura Floom) writes:
> Money isnt everything, fame can be fun too!! ;-) ;-)

	Give me money over fame any day.  :-)

-- 
Mark Meyer                                               | mmeyer@dseg.ti.com |
Texas Instruments, Inc.,  Plano TX                       +--------------------+
Every day, Jerry Junkins is grateful that I don't speak for TI.
"There's lots of bread in the freezer!"  "No, I threw it out.  Hard as a rock."
Newsgroups: misc.kids
From: patti@nestor.cc.bellcore.com (stankovich,patricia a)
Subject: Re: Newly Pregnant (what to do?)
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 14:52:14 GMT

In article <29035@oasys.dt.navy.mil> cooper@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lynette Cooper) writes:
>In misc.kids, hollan@INRS-Telecom.UQuebec.CA (Rene Hollan) writes:
>>for another time. Again,lease send me your views on VDT & Pregnancy. I hope
>						     ^^^
>
>VDT ???


Video Display Terminals
From: lm3a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Laura McGinnis)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: CTTS - 3 yrs
Date: 22 Dec 92 05:04:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.IfBmtwm00iV4Q1DcEb
Organization: Administrative Computing & Info Services, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

In the Cute Things They Say department:

Last night, Mickey & I were rough-housing a bit & I needed to stop to
catch my breath.  Of course, he still wanted to mess around & kept
saying "More, Mommy, more!".  I told him "I need to rest a minute.  I'm
an old woman & I'm tired".  He said, "No, you're NOT an old woman. 
You're a NEW woman."
From: rigg@osnome.che.wisc.edu (Tim Rigg)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Re: circumcision statistics
Date: 29 Dec 92 15:51:00 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chemical Engineering
In-reply-to: derion@VAX309.NOSC.MIL's message of Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:36:03 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.003603.1885@nosc.mil> derion@VAX309.NOSC.MIL (Toni Derion) writes:
   What I am interested in finding out is:

   what percentage of all infant boys in the USA are circumcised these days?

In LaMaze class, they told us 50 to 60 percent of the infant boys in
the US are circumcised.

To add another data point, we are expecting any minute and think it
will be a boy.  If so, he will not be circumsised.

tim
--
    ...  Then they came for me,
	   and by that time there was no one
	     left to speak up for me. (Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
From: foster@atmosmips.jpl.nasa.gov (Julie Foster)
Subject: RE: Hormonally Enhanced
Reply-To: foster@atmosmips.jpl.nasa.gov (Julie Foster)
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:21:29 GMT

 

>>But Jerry learned to quickly click the remote when McDonald's commercials
>>came on (I was newly pregnant during the holidays).....a typical holiday
>>McDonald's commercial would set me to sniveling, boohooing or outright
>>sobbing without fail.
>>
>Well, does anyone else find that just having kids around makes you
>more prone to being moved by tearjerking movies? I've always
>been emotional, but it seems that since I have become a mother,
>I cry more easily at movies and commercials and some books (if
>you really want a good cry try 'Love You Forever', forget the
>author right now).
>                        Patti Twigg

I'm really bad.  I was crying after the McDonald's commercials even before
I thought about becoming a mom.    Now, I have to keep tissues handy 
where ever I go (I usually blame my red eyes and running nose on allergies :).
I was sobbing in my car on my way home from work after I heard a news
report about a mother dog and her newborn puppies being removed from the
center divider of a local freeway.   (I'm even sniffling now as I write this).


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From: rollo@xylogics.com (Dena Rollo)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: A cautionary tale...
Date: 23 Dec 1992 07:39:17 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
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Well, as embarrassing as it is to post
a story about how we almost caused injury
to our child, I'm gonna do it, because
other people's similar tales have made
me think twice about safety on several
occasions, so here goes:

Last night, after dinner, we were getting
ready to light the menorah, when Isabel
(11 mos. old today) decided she wanted
to get back in her highchair to finish
a leftover cracker. Seeing as Michael and
I were both right there, and as she was
only going to be in the chair for a couple
of minutes, I didn't strap her in. Well,
the second we were turned away (opening
a present) out she slid.

Luckily, she bounced on her butt down the
step and onto the floor, and was startled
but unhurt. But it *could* have been really
bad.

So, folks, remember - those straps are there
for a reason (and so are the instructions to
never leave your child unattended in the high-
chair).

On a more cheerful note (well, to me, anyway)-
Isabel, after 3 nights of Chanukah, started
clapping last night as soon as she saw the
still-unlit menorah - she was anticipating
the candles and songs. Is that smart, or what? :)

Hope everyone out there has lovely (and safe!!)
holidays.

-Dena
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