News Roundup

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Winona Ryder smiling on the cameraSome of the articles of interest to working mothers that we’ve seen around the web recently…

  • A Racked writer explains how “the beauty industry generally takes Gen X for granted.”
  • Working Mother looks at the benefits and problems of being a breadwinning working mom.
  • Working Mother also has workout tips for busy working moms.
  • Meanwhile, here’s a telling article from The Miami Herald: “Despite working at nearly double the rate of their grandmothers, 21st-century moms still shoulder more of the drudgery of child-rearing and report time with their children as more tiring and stressful than it is for fathers.”
  • Quartz reports on the no-babies policy at TEDWomen.
  • Society6 asked some successful “LA-based creatives” to describe their sleep habits.
  • A mom writes for The Washington Post’s On Parenting about how strangers are always worried about her daughter’s safety when she’s running, climbing, and just being a kid.
  • The New York Times’ Well Family has an article about the value of teaching kids the actual names — not nicknames or euphemisms — for their private parts.
  • The blogger behind Science of Mom writes about the AAP’s new recommendations for safe sleep.
  • A Hellobee blogger shares 11 tips for traveling with kids.
  • Romper reviews the usual backhanded compliments given to working moms.

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Wondering if someone can help- married for five years, one kidlet. Nothing happening in bedroom for a year now. Sex drive on my part is literally zero. To be honest other than the sex issue we’re at the best place we’ve even been work wise and career wise. No real issues with kidlet.

Thoughts? Like not sure here if this on my part is an age thing or a gained a bit of weight thing or a reaction to birth control thing but I have literally zero sex drive.

ARGH. Not to reopen the sleep discussion, but from the ScienceofMom article comments:

“[These studies are] also the best evidence that the AAP has, and I think it is hard to ignore. However, we’re also not likely to get better evidence anytime soon. The sample size needed for prospective studies is cost-prohibitive, and even case control studies are difficult at this point because SIDS is relatively rare. You’re right that many of the studies that these recommendations are based on are from the 1990’s, when prone sleep was more common, but we may be stuck with this imperfect evidence for now. So again, I do think that the roomsharing recommendation is evidence-based, but I also agree that this will be hard for many families, and individual families have to weigh the risks and benefits based on their situation.”

So yes. Parents, weigh your own risks and benefits, but read through all the studies to find out that the “evidence” is comparing room-sharing to stomach-sleeping. This is why parents are so frustrated with the guidelines – that’s a pretty significant limitation to the evidence.

ARGH. Not to reopen the sleep discussion, but from the ScienceofMom article comments:

“[These studies are] also the best evidence that the AAP has, and I think it is hard to ignore. However, we’re also not likely to get better evidence anytime soon. The sample size needed for prospective studies is cost-prohibitive, and even case control studies are difficult at this point because SIDS is relatively rare. You’re right that many of the studies that these recommendations are based on are from the 1990’s, when prone sleep was more common, but we may be stuck with this imperfect evidence for now. So again, I do think that the roomsharing recommendation is evidence-based, but I also agree that this will be hard for many families, and individual families have to weigh the risks and benefits based on their situation.”

So yes. Parents, weigh your own risks and benefits, but read through all the studies to find out that the “evidence” is comparing room-sharing to stomach-sleeping. This is why parents are so frustrated with the guidelines – that’s a pretty significant limitation to the evidence.