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Monthlies – video and website – excellent resource for mamas and their children.
Hi
Note I say children not specifically girls as I think this is great for boys too.
Enjoy Cx
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From the website:
WHY IS THIS MOVIE IMPORTANT?
During two years worth of research for the feature version of our film The Moon Inside You, we realized that more than 80% of the girls have a negative attitude towards their upcoming menstruation. For many of them it is really unclear what else is related with menstruation other than” knowing” that it will hurt or that it´s something to be ashamed of.
By making this new version of the film, addressed to young audience and girls specifically, we want to break down the prejudices and negative expectations that make the women-to-be fearful. The “certainty” of expected pain will make them to become more likely to follow blindly certain pharmaceutical advises as having contraceptives in order to prevent PMS and colateral menstruation effects, resulting in harming their health in a long term period.
Our intention is to bring girls a deeper knowledge and understanding of their bodies. To raise their interest in exploring about their own nature. To free them of the false burden that ” the pain is part of being a women” .
On the other hand, we want that the young boys would know what’s going on within their mates, so they wouldn´’t need to make fun of them while they are trying to hide something their “shameful” periods.
Our goal is to tell a story in a fairy tale way. There is nothing made in film previously on such a important issue, but on a didactical or medical approaching. We want to talk about the magical journey of the girl becoming a women, in a very positive and visually compelling way.
We´ll tell about some other ways in the world of reaching that moment, as happens in the Tamil community, in the south of India, who celebrate the menarche of the girl in a joily and colourfully way.
Our aim is to show it to wider world, helping open the vision on what menstruation can mean.
We would be so thankful if we can count of you on this mission. Help us change the old paradigmas . Be part of the change.
Reflux in babies – over diagnosed?
Measles – what are the options?
With the recent outbreak of measles this is a timely link
Cx
After the birth, what a family needs – Gloria Lemay
Fabulous thank you Gloria Lemay
Here’s the link and the article below just in case it is deleted. Enjoy. Cx
After the Birth, what a family needs
Posted on October 28, 2008 by gloria
“Let me know if I can help you in any way when the baby is born.” … “Just let me know if you need a hand.” … “Anything I can do, just give me a call.”
Most pregnant women get these statements from friends and family but shy away from making requests when they are up to their ears in dirty laundry, unmade beds, dust bunnies and countertops crowded with dirty dishes. The myth of “I’m fine, I’m doing great, new motherhood is wonderful, I can cope and my husband is the Rock of Gibraltar” is pervasive in postpartum land. If you’re too shy to ask for help and make straight requests of people, I suggest sending the following list out to your friends and family. These are the things I have found to be missing in every house with a new baby. It’s actually easy and fun for outsiders to remedy these problems for the new parents but there seems to be a lot of confusion about what’s wanted and needed…
1. Buy us toilet paper, milk and beautiful whole grain bread.
2. Buy us a new garbage can with a swing top lid and 6 pairs of black cotton underpants (women’s size____).
3. Make us a big supper salad with feta cheese, black Kalamata olives, toasted almonds, organic green crispy things and a nice homemade dressing on the side. Drop it off and leave right away. Or, buy us frozen lasagna, garlic bread, a bag of salad, a big jug of juice, and maybe some cookies to have for dessert. Drop it off and leave right away.
4. Come over about 2 in the afternoon, hold the baby while I have a hot shower, put me to bed with the baby and then fold all the piles of laundry that have been dumped on the couch, beds or in the room corners. If there’s no laundry to fold yet, do some.
5. Come over at l0 a.m., make me eggs, toast and a 1/2 grapefruit. Clean my fridge and throw out everything you are in doubt about. Don’t ask me about anything; just use your best judgment.
6. Put a sign on my door saying “Dear Friends and Family, Mom and baby need extra rest right now. Please come back in 7 days but phone first. All donations of casserole dinners would be most welcome. Thank you for caring about this family.”
7. Come over in your work clothes and vacuum and dust my house and then leave quietly. It’s tiring for me to chat and have tea with visitors but it will renew my soul to get some rest knowing I will wake up to clean, organized space.
8. Take my older kids for a really fun-filled afternoon to a park, zoo or Science World and feed them healthy food.
9. Come over and give my husband a two hour break so he can go to a coffee shop, pub, hockey rink or some other r & r that will delight him. Fold more laundry.
10. Make me a giant pot of vegetable soup and clean the kitchen completely afterwards. Take a big garbage bag and empty every trash basket in the house and reline with fresh bags.
These are the kindnesses that new families remember and appreciate forever. It’s easy to spend money on gifts but the things that really make a difference are the services for the body and soul described above. Most of your friends and family members don’t know what they can do that won’t be an intrusion. They also can’t devote 40 hours to supporting you but they would be thrilled to devote 4 hours. If you let 10 people help you out for 4 hours, you will have the 40 hours of rested, adult support you really need with a newborn in the house. There’s magic in the little prayer “I need help.”
First posted online August 2001