You can now subscribe to receive an email every time a comment is approved on a test. You’ll find the subscription box at the bottom of every test page at the comments section.
Emails when a comment is left?
Would it be useful to have the option to receive an email when someone leaves a comment on your test picture?
Have asked this on the Facebook page too – so pop over and join, if you haven’t already 
UPDATE: Tis done!
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We’re on Facebook!
I’ve just created a Facebook page, so you can view pee sticks to vote on direct on your Wall!
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Apologies for the outage…
We seem to be having some problems on the main site! The server guys are looking into it at the moment so hopefully we’ll be back online shortly.
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NHS bans c-sections…
… unless the mother’s life is at risk by delivering naturally.
A number of NHS trusts have now banned women from having c-sections unless their life is in danger, as unnecessary c-sections “waste millions of pounds of NHS money each year”.
Trusts affected so far include: Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Herefordshire, Bristol, South Staffordshire, County Durham, Dorset, Derbyshire, and Bournemouth and Poole.
What do you think? Good thing or bad thing?
Full Moon = Labour?
I was reading a great birthing story online earlier, in which the mum happened to mention that this child, along with all her other children, had been born on a full moon.
Funnily enough, both of my children were also born on a full moon. And I definitely recall there always being references to ‘full moons’ on pregnancy forums and the fact that a flurry of births would accompany them!
This article suggests it’s connected to the moon’s effect on tides (our bodies are largely made up of water, after all) whereas this article shows arguments AGAINST the lunar effect on labour and birth.
So, time for a survey! Look up your month and year of birth here or here and check the moon phase.
For the sake of this survey, we’ll agree that if you were born on any of the FIVE days in each moon cycle that are at least 95% full (so, that’s the 100% full moon day and two days either side of it), then you were born on a full moon.
You can vote more than once (just refresh the page) so why not add in your children, parents, siblings etc. too!
Were you (or your child, parent, sibling etc.) born on a full moon?
Yes, born on or within 2 days of a full moon
0%
0%No, but labour began on or within two days of a full moon0%
0%No0%
0%“5 A Day” Parenting Guidelines?
There’s an article in the Torygraph Telegraph today about new plans to bombard parents with parenting guidelines, in a format based around the ‘successful’ 5-a-day fruit & veg campaign (I’d argue how successful this campaign has really been. We all know we should eat 5 portions a day, but how many of us actually do?).
“Television and radio advertisements and posters in nurseries and on buses would spell out how parents should play, read, talk, praise, and feed their children every day, under the proposed drive. ”
Do they really think we don’t already know that we should praise our children’s success and good efforts? That we should make an effort to read to/with them each day? And the parents who DON’T already do these things – is it because they aren’t aware they should be doing it, or because they don’t care enough to do it? I’d suspect the latter, frankly.
And don’t even get me started on this paragraph:
“But poorer parents need to be “incentivised” to attend courses to help them complete the “five-a-day” essential actions. They could be rewarded for attending classes with higher child benefit payments or annual bonuses, the study suggested. ”
So, low income = bad parent??!
What do you think? Useful parenting advice for all, or more money being wasted on patronising parents with nanny state advice?
Pregnant? Update your Facebook status!
You can now update your Facebook status to say you are expecting a child!
In the ‘family’ section of your profile, you can add “Expected: child” to your list of family members (including a name and due date!).
So, who’s done it already??
Source: Inside Facebook
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5 baby products you think you need (but probably don’t)
When I was pregnant with Boy1, I took part in a research project at a local University (where I worked at the time) into marketing of baby products. As part of the research, I had to keep a list of every baby/nursery product I purchased during pregnancy and, quite frankly, the list of was horrifying long!
But it seems I’m not alone when it comes to over-buying during pregnancy; in fact, this article quotes an average spend of $6,000 (around £3,655) on “baby preparation”!
So now, five years later, with that horrifyingly long list at hand, I would like to reveal my top 5 least used baby purchases!
- Nappy Wrapper (if in UK) or a Diaper Genie (if in US)
A friend recommended this to us as they found it invaluable, but we didn’t use it. Actually, that’s not true – we did use it. Once. We felt that it wasn’t *that* big a deal to go downstairs and take stinky night time nappies into the kitchen bin. And using a nappy wrapper means buying refills quite regularly, which is extra hassle and cost you don’t need. - Bottle Warmer
In fairness, we did actually use this a few times but it’s soooooo much slower than boiling a kettle to warm a bottle. And the water evaporates when you forget to switch it off. Which you will. My advice: invest in an instant-heat kettle instead! Warms your bottles much more quickly and you don’t have the hazard of a kettle full of boiling water either. - Top & Tail Bowl
It’s just a bowl with compartments! You can realistically use pretty much *any* bowl to top & tail your baby, so don’t waste money on one of these. - Nappy Stacker
This is a gadget that you keep near the cot / changing unit and put your nappies inside. They look pretty but are totally, completely unnecessary in our experience! Seriously – just keep the nappies in the bag they come in, or put them in a neat pile on the shelf of a changing unit (if you use one). I guarantee the novelty of taking them out of the nappy bag and into the nappy stacker will wear off SUPER quickly. - Baby Wipes Warmer
Unless you plan to take this baby wipes warmer with you *everywhere* at all times, there’s going to come a time when baby has to feel a regular, cold wipe. They may as well get used to it now And I’ve heard quite a few stories of the wipes totally drying out through heating them (or even burning a bit). Not cool!
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Tagged bottle feeding, diapers, nappies, pregnancy, shopping, warmers
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Option to hide evap button?
Would you like an option when uploading your test picture to hide the evap voting button?
If your test picture was taken within the reading time frame of the test, it cannot by definition be an evaporation line …. so why does that test need an evap voting button?
Vote as a comment below – yes or no, please!
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