Questions

[ailbhe]

Can you recommend a good book of photographs of babies' faces? It needs to be lightweight (my RSI is predictably affected by having a baby to carry around all the time). I'm usually opposed to this kind of thing as I feel vaguely squeamish about the mild exploitation, but Linnea loves looking at photos o babies' faces, so I don't care how exploitative it is any more.

Does anyone know whether paracetemol and aceteminophen are the same thing, and what the par-mol and minophen bits of the words mean? And the acete bit, for that matter?

Can people who know Rose please ask her to recommend a good Evil Tea for my sinus cold, which has spread to my ears and is causing me immoderate pain? As a breastfeeding mother, I'm not allowed any of the really good drugs. I've been using lemon, ginger and honey, but it's not very effective.

There are rumours (in the instruction manual) that it may be illegal to use a Tommee Tippee baby motion/breathing monitor in Ireland because of it transmitting to the parent unit. It this codswallop or should I conceal the fact that I'm going to import it?

Comments

[rjw76]

If you wish to be deluged with chemistry, "aceta" means an acetyl group on the molecule, ie H-C=O . It joins onto the molecule via the C(arbon).

And, because I felt like it, here is the molecule in ASCII:
The acetyl group is in the bottom left, and "para" means the two things-that-aren't-hydrogen attached to the carbons on the ring are opposite each other.

     H  H-C=C-H
      \  /   \
      N-C    C-OH
     /  \\  //
 HO=C  H-C--C-H
    | 
    H

[wingedkami.livejournal.com]

Just to be pedantic... You're missing a carbon there.
H₃3C-C=O

     H  H-C=C-H
      \  /   \
      N-C    C-OH
     /  \\  //
  O=C  H-C--C-H
    | 
  H-C-H
    |
    H

How's that?