News of the day

[mzrowan]

The Globe & Mail gives us recipes for a vegan holiday meal.

Two naked bicyclists in New Zealand chastised by police officer for riding without helmets, sent home.

Were there a bunch of people nearby with EL wire and tents? Swedish town's giant straw Christmas goat burnt to the ground for twenty-fourth time since 1966.

Pakistan's Supreme Court

Comments

[rezendi]

My OLPC skepticism is well-documented, but it went off the charts on this: "We don't necessarily need to build it," Negroponte told Forbes. "We just need to threaten to build it."

[lightcastle]

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ok then

[silentq]

My desire to move to NZ is only increased by the police officer's quote: They were jovial young men who had not intended to cause offence. :)

[lightcastle]

I know!

[fuzzyila]

*confused* Maybe the wording is off, but the face of the baby is *supposed* to be facing the mother's back. If the two spines are lined up (called 'back labour'), it's more difficult because the largest circumference of the head presents first. It's also something that can be corrected before labour and even during labour - by the mother being on all fours. I was told to go on all fours for weeks before delivery (at least 20 minutes a day) to prevent back labour...and it worked. That was, by far, not the most difficult part of my labour.

[mzrowan]

Oh, huh, maybe I read it wrong. Here's what the article says:

"Although still head down, the babies tended to face the wrong way - towards their mother's back rather than stomach.

Not only are these labours generally longer and harder, they are also more likely to end in an assisted delivery with forceps, ventouse or a Caesarean."

[keyne]

No, you read it correctly; it's the article's writers who are confused. As fuzzyila says, babies are supposed to face their mother's backs.

[fuzzyila]

yeah, it was the wording of the article that I thought might be wrong...or just confusing because the uterus is in front of both the stomach and back. It's not really well put.

[rednikki]

Thanks for that Globe and Mail link! I expected a tofu-o-rama, but instead it's loaded with recipes I can eat. Heck, I think I'm going to send them an email!

[mzrowan]

Yay!