Conquering your fear, treatments and cures

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I am scared of surgery. Is there another non-invasive way of diagnosing endometriosis?
A recent study 1 have shown that by detecting nerves fibres from biopsies taken from the lining of the womb (endometrial lining) using a device inserted vaginally enables them to make a diagnosis of endometriosis with almost 100% accuracy. This is an exciting discovery as hopefully in future women need not go for a surgical procedure anymore in order to make a diagnosis of endometriosis. However, obviously larger studies are needed to validate the findings of this research.

The causes, the symptoms, diagnosis & classifications

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What is endometriosis?
Endometriosis is a condition whereby the tissue that lines the womb (uterus) called endometrium, is found in places outside the uterus. During menstruation, the normal endometrial tissue is shed from the uterus as menstrual blood but the lining that is implanted outside the uterus has no way of leaving the body. When this happens, this endometrium lining becomes inflamed, swollen and irritates the surrounding tissue forming painful scar tissue (adhesions) or ovarian cyst containing blood (endometrioma). The scar tissue could also bind any of the pelvic organs together or cover them completely.

Celebrate Sakae Children’s Day

I love sushi, and I’ve been hoping that my niece and nephew would grow up to like it too so that they can share my love of Japanese food. So far, they haven’t been that keen on sushi, although they think it looks very pretty. Now, however, there’s renewed hope, because Sakae Sushi has introduced Sakae Children’s Day!

Branded kids wear at reasonable prices

If you love blog boutiques, branded kids clothing and online shopping, do check out The Tiny Tot Shop. Run by Daffodilove of Johor, it carries genuine labels such as Gap, Guess, Carter’s, Osh Kosh, Polo, Mini wear, Puma and lots more, all at reasonable prices (from as low as USD3!). 

Should this woman really have control over her own womb?

I have lived my life believing that a woman should be able to decide about what she does with her womb, like whether or not she should keep her baby, or if she should be a surrogate mother and if she should decide to have just one child, or even ten. It’s her womb, her choice.

Getting in touch with your inner child

A walk in the park brought me face to face with my inner child. As a strolled on the walking path, mindful not to take in too much harmful UV rays, I noticed the swings. On my second pass I stopped, remembering all the wonderful times I had playing on this contraption. It brought a smile to my face.

“BLESSED is a family where the members are disciplined, tutored, moulded, and guided on by a female elder who are imbued with wisdom far beyond her physical years”

I plucked this decades-old phrase from a Chinese text-book that was printed in 1975. It struck me as a truly accurate saying, for as a child until I became a mother, I have witnessed women, the stay-at-home mothers, aunties and grandmas involved with nurturing children and developing teens and bringing them up to be people who will be healthy, decent, responsible and cultivated with the right morals.

A mum's letter to her daughter

Every month, graphic designer and ‘new’ mom Allie Hill writes an email to her daughter Sasha. This was something she started to do when she realised how easy it was to forget things. “It’s the little details that make life interesting, and it’s the little things that get forgotten in a blur of a million diaper changes and bottle washes,” says Allie.

When you can't debunk myths that aren't even myths to begin with

They say your mum is your first love. And that whether or not you like it, it is genetically, biologically and innately built in you, this thread of your mum that is bound to surface, in due time. Yes, whether or not you deny it in your teenagehood.

I remember this...

There is nature and then there is nurture...

Does gender neutrality exist in childhood?

Mommys who have friends who aren’t mommys

Children mean no more lazy Sundays at the pub. A rainy Saturday is not an excuse to see a triple feature and eat our weight in popcorn. This is a life that takes some getting used to, and sometimes I am jealous of the friends who have not yet made the leap, who are not diapering two bums 12 times a day. These are the friends who might mistake that blue syringe nose-sucking bulb for a funky kitchen item or a bizarre Thai sex toy. They remind me of the absurd and keep me in check.