Great news:

On Friday, May 23, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reversed the September 2007 decision of the Pennsylvania Board of Medicine which ordered Lancaster County midwife, Diane Goslin, to cease and desist from the practice of midwifery.

Save Home Birth

In other, not so great, news....

Nationally, home birth is being attacked by the American Medical Association (AMA), joined by American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). The AMA has introduced a legislative resolution at their 2008 Annual Meeting to outlaw home birth (Resolution 205, PDF). Incidentally, the AMA has also written legislation to propose a stop to the Board of Medical Examiners, who plan to begin testing and certifying Doctor of Nursing Practitioners (Resolution 214, PDF). Both resolutions can be found online American Medical Association.

I read about this independent study on sunscreen efficacy today and wanted to share:

Sunscreen Summary — What Works and What's Safe

Check it out!

The top ranking products (0 score which is perfect):
1. Keys Soap Solar Rx Therapeutic Sunblock, SPF 30 zinc 0 not waterproof
2. Trukid Sunny Days Facestick Mineral Sunscreen UVA/UVB Broad Spectrum, SPF 30+ titanium, zinc 0
3. California Baby Sunblock Stick No Fragrance, SPF 30+ water resistant, titanium 0
4. California Baby Sunblock Stick Everyday/year-Round, SPF 30+ titanium 0

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Up bright and early today!

Added some new pics of the boy on flickr.

Have some of him brand-new too, that I'll try and get up at some point.

We spent saturday and sunday in Vermont visiting my grandparents - Ezra's GREATgrandparents. They in turn got to meet their first greatgrandchild.

We have a few photos from that trip (we also stopped at our favorite B&B - The Meadowlark Inn so Deb and Lucia could meet Ezra too).

See pics on Flickr as usual.

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enjoy!

I found The International Breast Milk Project from the Ovusoft Forums...

From their site:
- 25% of my milk will be donated to infants orphaned by HIV/AIDS and 75% will be retained by Prolacta Bioscience for critically ill infants in the US.

Prolacta Bioscience is a US company (and the only company in the world at this point) that uses breast milk to create fortifiers to meet the nutritional needs of NICU babies. Often, even breast-fed NICU babies will need fortifiers to increase their caloric intake. And for premature or ill infants, breast milk is SERIOUSLY superior to cows' milk-based replacements.

Wow.

More later.

W.H. Murray - Until One Is Committed

Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:

that the moment one definitely commits oneself,
then providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would not otherwise have occured. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour
all manner of unforseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man would have dreamed would come his way.

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:

So...want a little history on the Subprime Mortgages??

I got this link from Mike Davidson's Blog a while ago and last night showed it to Al, my brother-in-law.

Thought I'd pass it on to you because it is just too funny...and, um, true.