FERTILITY DRUGS HAVE FOUND TO LOWER THE RISK OF BREAST CANCER IN WOMEN

According to an article in Medical News Today, researchers have found that women who are on fertility drugs have a statistically lower risk of breast cancer.

The study focussed on women who were on fertility drugs and failed to conceive a 10 plus week pregnancy as opposed to those who were not on the drugs

Read more by following the link below:-

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/247595.php

From the article

"The researchers state: Our data suggest that exposure to a stimulated pregnancy is enough to undo the reduction in risk associated with a history of exposure to ovulation-stimulating drugs.  

According to the researchers, fertility drugs potentially elevate the risk by a change in pregnancy-related breast-tissue remodeling, although the risk of breast cancer in successfully treated women was comparable to that of non-users.

The researchers are aware that their study had some limitations, for example, the reliance on self-reported fertility drug usage as well as lack of data on specific diagnosis for infertility."

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LIGHT MOMENT FRIDAYS - FEATURE 42 - Jesus is watching you

This is DWL funny.........

Jesus is watching you

Late one night, a burglar broke into a house that he thought was empty. He tiptoed through the living room but suddenly he froze in his tracks when he heard a loud voice say: "Jesus is watching you!"
 Silence returned to the house, so the burglar crept forward again. "Jesus is watching you," the voice boomed again.
 The burglar stopped dead again. He was frightened. Frantically, he looked all around. In a dark corner, he spotted a bird cage and in the cage was a parrot.
 He asked the parrot: "Was that you who said Jesus is watching me?" "Yes", said the parrot.
 The burglar breathed a sigh of relief, then he asked the parrot: "What's your name?"
 Clarence," said the bird.
 "That's a dumb name for a parrot," sneered the burglar. "What idiot named you Clarence?"
 The parrot said, "The same idiot who named the Rottweiller Jesus."










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‘GRATEFUL WEDNESDAYS’ POST 7 – They say, life begins at 40.........

It is often said that life begins at 40 and I am totally buying into that. I am, as a result, very grateful for this time in my life. I feel so different from when I was in my 30's. I am less impulsive, more calculative,a lot more patient and empathetic and no longer feels the need to be validated by anyone.

I am also a lot calmer and this helps a great deal, as my husband is the total opposite. He tends to freak out at the smallest mishap, especially when it has to do with the children. As soon as I have ascertained that they are in one piece and still breathing, I then turn the focus on my husband as I try to calm him down. I feel that God deliberately had me wait so long to become a mother because he knew I would be better at it, at this point in my life.

Each day, I feel my faith at work and I am getting a little better at learning how to be content with whatever I have, whether it be a little or a lot and I am also learning to accept the things that I cannot change, as I take comfort in knowing that,  “this too shall pass.”


I tell you, I feel so liberated and alive and myself and those around me are reaping the benefits as I feel overall less stressed. I don’t know, but I want to credit this emerging new me, to life in the forties lane.

Remembering in Prayers

Today, I use this space to remember the victims and families of the Colorado shooting, which occurred last night and leaves 12 dead and 59 injured.

It is my hope that justice will be served.












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LIGHT MOMENT FRIDAYS - FEATURE 41 - Good Communication

Good one!!!!!




Good Communication


It was Friday night and Joseph and his wife, Natalie, had just gotten into their third argument of the day and were now giving each other the silent treatment, vowing not to be the first one to speak.
However, at bedtime, Joseph realized that he would need his wife, who always woke up at 4:30am to wake him at 5:00am for golf with his friends. Not wanting to lose the battle of wills, Joseph wrote on a piece of paper,
"Natalie, please wake me at 5:00am."
The next morning, Joseph woke up at 9:00am, having missed the golf game with his friends. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't woken him when he noticed a piece of paper on the bedside table.
It read,
"Joseph, it's 5:00am. Wake up."

‘GRATEFUL WEDNESDAYS’ – POST 6 – “Your mercies are new every morning........”

Today I stand in awe of, and is very grateful for God’s keeping care and his tender mercies.

My dad was hospitalised yesterday with a blood clot in his leg. He noticed it a little while back and was using home remedies in an effort to treat it. As we all know a blood clot is potentially fatal but thanks be to God he preserved my dad until he is now getting the treatment he needs. This happened before and he came through itl, but this time it could have been different, we could be in mourning.


“It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”  Lamentations 3 verses 22 – 23.


THANKS BE TO GOD!!!!!!

'GRATEFUL WEDNESDAYS' - Post 5 – “What is man without friends?”

As a people, we are very ambitious and this is good, there is however a downside to this. We can lose
our selves in pursuing self-advancement; a bigger degree for that bigger salary, a bigger house, a newer car, and find ourselves wondering, why am I not happy, why does my life feel so dull. The thing is, we forget to be thankful for the little things that we already have, without which, our lives would not mean much. Our relationships, our health, our faith, our freedom, I could go on.


There are times in my life when I feel I could have achieved more in certain areas, and as a result I beat upon myself and take on a 'woe is me' attitude. Thankfully, I am soon reminded that less I be accused of being ungrateful, I do have things to be thankful for. 


In my pursuit to become a more thankful and happier person, in general then, I am urged to add a new posting feature to my blog, a segment dedicated to being thankful, which I have decided to call ‘GRATEFUL WEDNESDAYS', where I will post all the things in my life that I am thankful for, regardless of how small and especially those things which I have learnt the most from.

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I have very few friends. In fact there is a joke that my husband has on me, that he makes my friends for me and I take it, that it is because of my stutter why I have such a problem. One characteristic of a stutterer is that we do not readily open up ourselves to people, in case we be judged prematurely, because of the way we talk. As a result of this, we do not do so well socially.

Thanks to my husband then, among my few special friends are some that he indeed passed on to me. Today I want to use this space to say how grateful I am for my friends and their friendship. They lend not only their ears, when I need to talk, but their understanding that we all have and are entitled to our own unique view of things and we are also entitled to feel how we want to feel about issues in our lives and so they never judge me as a result.

It is my wish that they feel the same way about me too, if not though, I beg of them some time to become a better friend to them.

THANKS AND GOD BLESS YOU MY FRIENDS.

"Excuse me baby modda" (Excuse me baby mother)

I have been a mother for 5 years now and it seems I am not yet fully embracing motherhood and all that it represents. Who can blame me though when it took me over a decade to become a mom and felt so many times along the way that chances are, I could still come up empty, after my struggles.

The other day I was waiting in the checkout line at a pharmacy and heard a young man politely said ‘excuse me 'baby modda.’ I did not move at all and so he seemed to have made his way without my help. When he passed, I said to myself, oh, he was actually talking to me. A few days later, while reflecting on this incident, I began wondering if the reason I had not responded quicker to this young man’s request was because I had not yet completely embraced the fact that I was a mother because of how long it actually took me to become one. Do I need to be in this role a couple more years before I can be completely invested?

This church brother calls me only by the name of baby mother these days. He knows my real name, but I guess he too has a problem seeing me now a mother and so he has to call me that every chance he gets for it to hit home to him.

There are times when I am interacting with my children and I find it a little difficult to remain in the moment. It feels so surreal that I am actually interacting with them in the capacity of a mom and not an aunt or such. I even find myself wanting to pinch them to be convinced that they are really real.

Thank goodness they are no second guesses when it comes to caring for them, I am completely invested there and run on empty sometimes ensuring that their needs are met, so I guess it is safe to say that my shortcomings then, is purely psychological.

Since the psychological aspect of motherhood seems then to be a work-in-progress for me, it is my honour to continue to fulfil my role as it relates to the other aspects until I am fully embracing motherhood and all that it represents.

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LIGHT MOMENT FRIDAYS - FEATURE 40 - "Why I love her"

Why I love her

A man was wandering around in a field, thinking about how good his wife had been to him and how fortunate he was to have her.
He asked God, "Why did you make her so kind-hearted?"
The Lord responded, "So you could love her, my son."
"Why did you make her so good-looking?"
"So you could love her, my son."
"Why did you make her such a good cook?"
"So you could love her, my son."
The man thought about this. Then he said, "I don't mean to seem ungrateful or anything, but ... why did you make her so stupid?"
"So she could love you, my son."

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'GRATEFUL WEDNESDAYS' - Post 4 - Where there is faith............

As a people, we are very ambitious and this is good, there is however a downside to this. We can lose
our selves in pursuing self-advancement; a bigger degree for that bigger salary, a bigger house, a newer car, and find ourselves wondering, why am I not happy, why does my life feel so dull. The thing is, we forget to be thankful for the little things that we already have, without which, our lives would not mean much. Our relationships, our health, our faith, our freedom, I could go on.

There are times in my life when I feel I could have achieved more in certain areas, and as a result I beat upon myself and take on a 'woe is me' attitude. Thankfully, I am soon reminded that less I be accused of being ungrateful, I do have things to be thankful for. 

In my pursuit to become a more thankful and happier person, in general then, I am urged to add a new posting feature to my blog, a segment dedicated to being thankful, which I have decided to call ‘GRATEFUL WEDNESDAYS', where I will post all the things in my life that I am thankful for, regardless of how small and especially those things which I have learnt the most from.

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Post 4 - Where there is faith

Let me first apologize for last week's grateful Wednesday post. I was in over my head that day and could not honour my obligation. So sorry.

Today I am grateful for my faith.

In Hebrews 11 verse 1 (KJV), faith is defined as the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen and Microsoft Word Thesaurus defined faith with words such as, confidence, assurance and conviction.

It is not easy to keep hope alive, when everything else is dictating to you to give up, throw in the towel. This was the case for me with my infertility struggles. I tested my faith over and over again throughout this decade long struggle, and many times gave up in my physical self as no answer was forthcoming. I many times found myself calling out to God, are you there? Its me, Marie, do you remember the many prayers of a stammer, freckled face girl, who so desperately wants to be a Mother.

I did not give up, my faith would not let me, as I had the conviction that my answer would come one day. After all, I did test my faith in other areas of my life and it worked, so I believed this instance had no reason to be different, so much so that somewhere around 2004/2005, I went as far as designing the invitation for a Christening Brunch I wanted to have when my child was being christened, you get the picture, and guess what, I did use it for my son’s christening in December 2007.

I somehow knew though, especially when my struggles intensified, that I was certainly experiencing some refining fire. I was not the person God intended me to be and so I was being tested, prodded and molded and would come out as good gold.

My faith won out, be it all of a decade long, and now I am having it a little easier putting my faith to work in other areas of my life. Thanks be to God.

Let me encourage you in your struggles then, to put your faith to work. We are all equipped with just the right amount of faith that we need to overcome our circumstances. Hold on even tighter when those feelings to give up come knawing at your heart strings. The saying goes, "when you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on. Remember too that the darkest hour of the night is just before dawn.

BE ENCOURAGED THEREFORE

“Success Of Fertility Treatment May Approach Natural Birth Rate”

This is some very good news for persons struggling to have children and wishing to go the route of assisted reproductive technology.

According to Medical News Today, a groundbreaking study of about 250,000 women in the United States, finds that live birth rates by way of assisted reproductive technology, comparable to that of the natural fertility rate, can be achieved.

This technique also known as (ART) involves taking eggs from a woman’s ovaries, fertilising them with sperm and then returning them to the woman’s body.

For much more on this,  please click on the link below:-

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/247214.php

From the article

The research, led by Michigan State University's Barbara Luke and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, highlights what factors help or hinder getting pregnant using assisted reproductive technology, or ART. The results indicate that when there are favorable patient and embryo characteristics, live birth rates with ART can approach those of natural fertility. 

"This is good news for women who are trying to have a child," said Luke, a researcher in the College of Human Medicine's Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology.

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