Preeclampsia – My HELLP Syndrome Story

March 28, 2013 | 30 Comments
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300,000 women each year will be diagnosed with Preeclampsia or HELLP Syndrome. Knowing the signs and symptoms is the single most important thing you can do to increase you and your baby's chance of survival. Unfortunately, you can't always trust the medical community to make an early diagnosis. Preeclampsia, and especially HELLP, are finicky diseases in the beginning stages and often go undiagnosed until the situation becomes severe. Preeclampsia affects between 5-10% of all pregnancies. … [Read more...]

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Food Coloring or the Spawn of Satan?

October 27, 2012 | 7 Comments

I don’t think my children are “allergic” to food coloring, but they both become demon possessed if a jelly bean slips by my radar! Samuel and Aram clearly do not share genetic makeup, but they both react exactly the same when given any sort of small amount of food coloring. I am careful with what they eat, but I don’t overreact if we have a birthday party with a food-coloring laden cake…or if they occasionally are offered something like jelly beans. Seriously, I see a … [Read more...]

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Slutty Halloween Costumes! A Mother’s Dilemma

October 19, 2012 | 20 Comments
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It's the one time of year that women can dress like strippers and men can dress as women and no one bats an eyelid. If you want to dress like a themed hooker for halloween I really could care less, my best costume was the year my friend and I dressed up like Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson (I think we won the costume contest that year). I'm only complaining because I'm having a hard time as a woman finding a normal non-sexified costume. See below: I don't know if the costume maker knows … [Read more...]

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Taking a Stand For What You Believe In

June 28, 2012 | 8 Comments
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I keep getting asked this question: "Do you think using the media is good way to spread an important message?" I absolutely do! There are some things worth mentioning before jumping into something as crazy as a potential media firestorm, though.   MAKE SURE THE DECISION IS UNANIMOUS. Your entire family needs to be on-board. You are a unit, make important decisions as one. A media firestorm will effect every member of your family, so you'll all need to be prepared.   DO NOT TAKE … [Read more...]

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Adoption Is Trendy?

April 30, 2012 | 40 Comments

Yes, unfortunately adoption is trendy.   I am very worried about the consequences of adoption being something stylish, rather than a creation of a family.  (Fact: Ethiopian adoptions doubled following Angelina Jolie’s adoption of her daughter.)   International and transracial adoptions are quickly sweeping over Hollywood. As family that adopted internationally and transracially, I understand the reasoning behind intercountry adoption and embracing a child of any color. However, it … [Read more...]

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My Unpopular Political Views

March 8, 2012 | 32 Comments

Confession: I hate politics. Sort of... Okay, in itself that isn’t a worthwhile confession, but my political views are. It came to my attention the other day that I quite possibly am a closet anarchist. Why I hate politics: I love people. Period. My personal goal in life is striving to understand why people believe what they do. In situations when I do this correctly, if there was any judgement to begin with, it will be gone when I reach my goal of understanding the person or … [Read more...]

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Confession Friday

March 2, 2012 | 37 Comments
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I don't like dogs. Heart of stone, you ask? Possibly. I'm a cat person. Here are a few of problems I have with the little mongrels: When you pet a dog your hand smells . (FYI that does not happen with cats) They follow you around begging for food (the nerve!). When you pet them your hand smells. They just look stupid (look in those eyes and honestly tell me you don't think, "the lights are on, but nobody's home"). When you pet them your hand smells. They poop on the ground … [Read more...]

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Reasons I Shouldn’t Have a Cell Phone

November 5, 2011 | 5 Comments

This was my first week with a cell phone:  My twitter account is somehow set up so I can tweet in my name (@MsJamieLynne), but it believes I am @Gsnaps (my friend) - So it will only show me her tweets, and tweets to her from other people.  I've texted 64 times. About half of those are to a 15 year old boy, that I thought for the entire week was my friend Alexandra, and he thought was his friend Jamie from school.  I broke Siri  I've taken five pictures  I've gone through two … [Read more...]

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Attachment Issues In Parents- part III

October 9, 2011 | 1 Comment

Read part I and part II Child Abuse and PADS I was inspired to write this three-part series after hearing on the news about Hana. Many of you know her story already. She was adopted in 2008 and abused and neglected. Her parents mentioned they did not like their adopted children. Thirteen-year-old Hana was found dead in her own yard. Underweight, neglected, and the cause of death was hypothermia. Her parents are now being charged with her death. I do not know the family- it is my own opinion … [Read more...]

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Attachment Issues- In Parents- Part II

October 8, 2011 | 7 Comments

Read part 1 here. The 411 about Post Adoption Depression Syndrome (PADS) and Attachment in parents: 1. PADs is educating doctors on the subject of Post-Partum Depression (PPD)- Doctors often attribute post-partum blues to dramatic hormonal changes that occur after the birth of a baby. However, psychologists often link new mother's depression to the sudden overwhelming demands of an infant and new financial responsibility, as well her loss of professional identity, social networks, and … [Read more...]

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