While LJ was down...

[ailbhe]

4:30 pm

Today was grim. I was awake until 5:30 am then slept most of the time until about 10, with surfacings to check on the children. I crawled up and parked them in front of the TV and drank coffee and slugged around until eventually I managed to get us all dressed and upright. Then we trudged to McDonalds - well, I trudged, Linnea scampered, Emer toddled - and ate revolting greasy ick. Then we walked up a hill and went to a playground, and things began to look up. The slightly strenuous walk did me good, and I think we were in the playground just over an hour, and then we walked home, and all in all things were brighter.

While in McDonalds a man stopped as he left the building to say "Excuse me, your children are beautiful."

Emer's just had a 30-minute nap and I think she's waking up. LJ is down. I have no spare energy for housework. Tomorrow is a swimming day. I think I will dig out a library book to read, but the last one - Wideacre by Philippa Gregory - made me feel sick.

18:00
Eating a high-fat diet in pregnancy may cause changes in the foetal brain that lead to over-eating and obesity early in life, research suggests. But the article ends "he warned against extrapolating too readily from animal studies, particularly as the rats in the latest study were fed a very unnatural diet."

Jeepers.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting. My SIL is involved in a research project at the University of Wyoming, using sheep, where the results so far show that mothers who eat fewer calories during pregnancy end up with children who tend toward the obese because the children have slower metabolisms while the sheep that are fed normal or higher calories have babies with normal or faster metabolisms. It was started because of a study in the UK that seemed to show that children born during rationing have slower metabolisms.

[ailbhe]

Mothers in "Whatever you do is wrong and it's all your fault" shocker.

[velcro-kitten.livejournal.com]

I think we must have swapped weeks, last week I could barely function, this week I cooked supper for the first time in eons

[mrs-warwick.livejournal.com]

Wideacre by Philippa Gregory - made me feel sick.

Having read a couple of her other novels about the Tudors, I was quite looking forward to reading Wideacre. I struggled to get half way and gave up in disgust. I haven't been inclined to read any of her others.