Strollerderby : pills

Adult Music For Little Kids: Get Over It

JeanneSager — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:26:00 GMT

When we get in the car, my daughter puts in her musical requests. "The Rolling Stones, please!" Yes, she's three (almost four), and she loves her some Mick and Keith.

The quota of "adult" music to kiddie tunes in her section of my iPod is an almost two to one ratio. Just because they're kids doesn't mean they have to listen to inane bouncing around nonsense, right? Right?

Well, sort of. Because "adult" music is not always the kind you want your kids singing on YouTube. But for all the ickiness of tots twirling their hair and singing Lady GaGa's Poker Face on Hannah's post last week on Strollerderby, one commentor made a good point: "You think 9 year olds understand the meaning of the lyrics?"

Because I hadn't a clue when I was a kid that Mick was "running to the shelter of" a Xanax. Knowing it now, and realizing I used to run around the house singing it, proves that no innocence was lost. I didn't grow up to be a pill head. Nor do I have some sort of problem with hearing voices after choosing Laura Brannigan's "Gloria" as my favorite tune when I was a kid and then naming half of my dolls in honor of the paranoid pop song.

Maybe I'm slightly defensive here - after all, while reading Hannah's post on Lady GaGa, I realized my daughter had walked into the room and was singing along (and I honestly couldn't tell you WHERE she'd heard the song before). But she's three. And just thinks "muh, muh, muh, mah" is really cool to say.

Kind of like "let me please introduce myself" at high Mick quality volume. We're just listening to music. We don't have to get into WHY Keith Richards looks so pickled and never pull up the Annie Liebowitz pictures of Jagger on tour.

We have limits - no Notorious BIG (and no, she didn't get to watch the movie with us either), no matter how much fun is to say "uh." Because, in the immortal words of Mick, "you don't always get what you want . . .but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need!"

What "adult" songs do your kids ask for by name?

Image: Voices.com

They Say: Prozac When Pregnant Can Cause Heart Problems in Babies

SunnyChanel — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:30:00 GMT

This is a case of ‘you’re damned if you don’t’, but really ‘damned if you do’. And in this example, you won’t be the only one who’s damned. Jezebel found on Science Daily that pregnant woman who take fluoxetine, which is the generic name for good old Prozac, are four times as likely to have a baby born with a heart problem.

According to this new report, pregnant ladies who take the anti-depressent paroxetine are three times as likely to have babies with heart issues. The British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (yeah, I don’t have a subscription to that either) states that “Further analysis showed a strong association between major heart anomalies and taking fluoxetine in the first trimester. Women who smoked more than 10 cigarettes a day also had more babies with heart anomalies. Women taking paroxetine or smoking less than ten cigarettes a day also faced elevated risks, but not to the same extent."

Smoking, yeah that’s just dumb. But this report is a big bummer for those pill poppin’ moms-to-be out there. With all the hormonal changes that come with pregnancy, women who depend on a daily mood stabilizer could be really hard hit by the emotional changes that can occur with pregnancy without the aid of their medicines. A professor stated about these results that “It’s estimated that as many as one in seven women suffer from clinical depression during pregnancy and clinicians need to weigh up the individual risks of pregnant women taking, or not taking, drugs like fluoxetine”. At least it only lasts nine months, right?

Girl being kept alive by Viagra

Brett Singer — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:00:00 GMT

I can see the ads now. "Viagra – it's not just for boners anymore."

Case in point: Natalie Archibald, a 7 year old girl from Scotland, "collapsed after opening her presents on Christmas Day two years ago." At first doctors thought she was just "over-excited," but it turns out she suffers from a condition called primary pulmonary hypertension.

After two years of treatment that yielded no results, doctors gave her Viagra.

"[Her mother] Mrs Archibald…gave up her job as a legal secretary to look after Natalie after she began collapsing or turning blue on a regular basis following the first incident in 2006… She said: 'It was so frustrating because I knew there was something wrong with my wee girl but no-one could find out what it was… It got to the stage where we had almost given up trying to find out, until a doctor new to us went back into her records and carried out some more tests and diagnosed her….Within two weeks we were down to Great Ormond Street and the drugs had started, but it was a long fight to get there."

Natalie's disease could still prove fatal, but for now, "the Viagra works by opening the arteries and improving the blood flow." That's the same thing that the "little blue pill" does for impotent men, but this usage seems much more noble.

image/source: telegraph.co.uk

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Springing Forward Makes Mommy and Daddy Cry

Rachael Brownell (Redsy) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:58:00 GMT

Like taking candy from a baby, easy but oh so very mean. Taking sleep and time away from busy parents is a cruel trick of Daylight Savings, even with the energy saving benefits and more light in the evening results.

It's well-established most parents are sleep-deprived on some level especially in that first year of baby's life.

Apparently, the trouble with changes wrought by Daylight Savings Time go beyond insufficient sleep for a few days...

The trouble caused by switching the daylight hours forward so that one has more light in the evening, has a deleterious effect on one's body clock. You can move all the stylish wall-clocks forward all you like, but your circadean rhythms will be screaming at you that it is still Winter.

Add the usual degree of parental sleep deprivation and it's enough to want to consume a melatonin smoothie the size of Manhattan and feed the nice children some special medicine.

We need sleep, people! Daylight Savings is an enemy to busy parents everywhere and it must be stopped!

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