It’s amazing what types of shows become hits on tv because Americans (we’re not the only ones though), seem to be obsessed with Train Wreck tv. The trashier the reality stars are, the more we eat it up. Hey, it’s fun to watch other people be totally incapable of running a smooth, drama free, intelligent life when we have our own problems, it makes our problems and shortcomings seem trivial and unimportant by comparison.
I’ll admit that, I mean for me, half the time TV is escapism, and that’s ok. However, I don’t watch Jersey Shore – just a disclaimer. The funny thing is, that although I don’t watch the latest reality TV hit of MTV, I do know about some of the characters and have read a little about it since news about the show and it’s quirky, big haired, big muscled, smack talking, and big breasted (breast implants, of course) characters.
One in particular seems to already be somewhat of a tabloid darling. The one that calls herself JWOWW or something like that has made headlines a few times, one for having a new line of signature split down the middle bare-your-chest tops that look ultra classy (yes, I’m being totally facetious), and another one for her going “conservative”. Isn’t that like calling Warren Buffett poor or something?
JWOWW is known for her breast implants spilling out of a big split down the middle of these club shirts which have become her “signature”, and was recently praised for going “conservative on the red carpet. Any who, I have to admit, I’m curious as hell to tune into this show some time, it definitely looks like it would be interesting to watch, a study in human behavior I suppose, even though it’s getting heat from the Italian community because they feel like it’s perpetuating negative Italian stereotypes. It’s gotta be entertaining, if nothing else. And yes, maybe it’ll make me feel a lot better about myself and my own life!
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I remember reading with great interest, about procedures that weren’t all that common a few years ago, but were in the process of being perfected, where some surgeons were able to transfer fat from say, a woman’s thighs and buttocks or belly, or other common places where women tend to store their extra padding, to their breasts, thereby giving them a natural breast implant, foregoing the traditional faker, less natural look of an actual implant for the body’s own natural fat stores. What an idea, you take fat from one area and sculpt that down to a littler sizer, while emphasizing the breasts with that fat – genius!
A surgeon in Miami is doing these fat transfers quite successfully right now, and with pleasing results. There are lots of women out there who would love to have the large breasts that breast implants can offer, but are looking for breast implant alternatives to enlarge their breasts naturally so they can enjoy the larger size without the hardness or the fake look of implants. Who can blame them! Natural breast enhancement products, as you know, have become extremely popular because of this fact, and although this is still a procedure that you have to go to a surgeon for that can be quite costly, it at least gives more natural results.
The obvious advantage to this procedure is that you can sculpt the breasts out and shape them exactly where the shape and sculpting is needed, whereas the implant is one stationary device that only comes in certain sizes. It is immovable, whereas the fat transfers can be manipulated and moved around to suit the patient’s desired outcome better. I think that is why this procedure may gain in popularity.
When I read about this though, I did wonder about the risk of fat migration. You’ve probably heard that when fat is grafted from one area of the body to another, there is a risk of it moving, or migrating, around in the body, creating lumps and bumps where they are not supposed to be. Here’s the interesting part of the technique used by the surgeon in Miami. Since fat injections were met with a lot of disappointment, they figured they could try to create pockets where they could put the fat, so that the fat would not be as readily absorbed by the body and could pick up a healthy blood supply so that it could “survive” instead of simply being absorbed and flushed out by the body.
The surgeon has the patient wear the Brava breast enhancing device for several weeks, several hours a day, to create these pockets, and that seems to help do the trick in getting the fat injections to remain stable so the patient’s breast enhancement sticks around for longer than just a few years. This procedure of course also has great possibilities when it comes to breast reconstruction for breast cancer survivors who are really not all that thrilled by the idea of getting breast implants. A very interesting process! More to come as we hear more about this.
In a misguided attempt to help the Haitian earthquake recovery effort, apparently a lot of new moms have been sending their breast milk over for infants that have been orphaned by the tragic happening, in a response to what they thought was a call for breast milk from whoever could spare it. They thought or understood wrong though, the Red Cross has just put out a message to all breast milk donors to please stop sending their breast milk as it cannot be used to help the children over there.
The well meaning problem started when breast feeding advocate groups, perhaps even more than one, issues statements out to their members to please send any excess breast milk they had to Haiti so that it could be used to feed the children that were abandoned by parents who dies in the earthquake or were perhaps critically injured in the quake. But a Red Cross spokesperson said he is completely sure that they don’t need the breast milk, and in fact, never requested it from organizations or individuals, so they are unsure how this rumor started in the first place, or if it was just autonomous on the parts of do gooders who’s heart was in the right place.
However, they don’ t need and cannot use donated breast milk, and so it is actually causing more harm than good when they get it, as there is already so much confusion over there. Actually, this isn’t the only overwhelming response they’ve had, but there are so many people that want to go over there to help that they have had to turn people away and ask them to stay away, as the overcrowding will just cause more confusion, and volunteering would just cause more pandemonium, so they are asking people to just send money, nothing else at this time, money is the best thing you can do for the Haitians right now.
So, even if you have five bucks to give, that’s awesome. I know right now that it’s hard to give up even a cent because so many people are in tight spots financially, so by all means if you are in a difficult financial position, you should be using your financial resources on your family and yourself, but if you have a little to spare, this is the perfect opportunity to help folks in need out. And it’s tax deductible because it’s a charitable organization, which is great.
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The latest mammogram guidelines that were set as a result of a government appointed US advisory panel pretty much had sparks flying from the beginning when they were recommended last year. The new recommendations had women waiting until they were 50, not 40, even if they were considered a high risk group for breast cancer (aka having a family history of the disease), which had many health care professional, oncologists or not, up in arms that the panel was actually recommending to women that they wait even longer because they found no evidence that these earlier mammograms prevented enough of a metastatis of breast cancer, at least not enough to save lives to the degree they felt was worth it.
The problem of course, is that these “earlier” mammograms saved enough lives to make it worth it for lots of women, and I’m sure they wouldn’t want to be on a list where they weren’t qualified according to some recommendation when it saved their lives in the past.
Two more breast cancer related organizations have blatantly said that they don’t support the findings of breast mammograms being done later rather than sooner, and they do see benefit to having these often life saving imaging scans done earlier, because they can detect breast cancer in younger patients that aren’t yet detectable by hand, or by self examination because they aren’t yet big enough. Not yet big enough, but of course, very very treatable, which is the whole point of getting mammograms at a younger age when the breast tissue if often still too dense to be able to feel these small lumps or masses of tissue.
These organizations cite a significant decrease in the mortality rates of breast cancer, to the tune of about 30%, since the mammogram guidelines that were in place before these ridiculous new guidelines came out, as a reason that they do not support the new guidelines recommended by the panel.
The recommendations of starting earlier also cover newer and often perceived as more effective breast cancer screening processes, like the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and ultrasounds where the breast tissue is examined for irregularities. Surprisingly, the recommendations for women who do screen positive for the genes where they are much more likely to develop breast cancer, the recommendation is that they have a sonogram, MRI or mammogram every year starting when they are 30 years old, which is pretty early on according to other guidelines that were set up before.
The thing is, that you should really have them when you know it’s right for you, based on your family history. Of course, I’m an advocate of getting them done earlier, but it depends on your situation and personal comfort level too.
I recently purchased a pretty cool bra, of all places, at a Target store, and of all things, bought it on clearance for a really good, cheap price. I actually bought it for going away to Las Vegas to get married. It just so happened to fit my idea of sexy and a little bit dirty because it was a bright pink (not something I ever wear, except for when I’m trying to turn my now-husband on) color, and because it had several tightening clasps in the back and LOTS of padding.
Now, most bras do not give me cleavage, however, with this one, and with my husband’s help in adjusting the clasps in the back to just the right tightness, my boobs were pushed high enough up to look like they were spilling out, and they were pushed close enough together to make them appear like they had almost no space between them. In other words, super uncomfortable for me, but every dude’s dream to look at on women.
Every guy loves cleavage. It’s instinctively ingrained in him to lust after large breasts, and especially large breasts that are pushed seductively together. I honestly partially think it’s because it is highly suggestive of a somewhat erotic practice called TF’ing. You use your imagination for what that means, but most men have fantasies about this form of erotic play, and seeing your boobs looking perfect for that practice, I think, is what drives men nuts.
Another thing that you have to look at when considering a bra that will really push those babies far up on your chest and supply even more lift and that spill over look that so many men love (and women too many times), is to see how far the straps that go over your shoulders cinch up. If they do not cinch up too much, then you may not get the level of lift you need to create the dramatic cleavage you are looking for.
Victoria’s Secret and Fredrick’s of Hollywood both offer bras that are great for creating this type of cleavage, and they are actually comfy as well, but not for a whole day’s worth of wearing for natural breast enhancement, more for events that may have you in the bra for a few hours. Bras like the one I bought, which are cheaply constructed and not made for comfort at all, really are just more meant for show, for that few minutes of display and foreplay before they are taken off 
On mine and my now-husband’s way to Las Vegas, at the Cleveland airport, we were subjected to the newest technology in airport security, and we were confused because we had never been through one before. We’re not infrequent travelers, either, so it must have been a fairly new contraption for the Cleveland Hopkins airport to be using, because we had traveled within the past year as well and we didn’t go through one.
What it is, and what you will be seeing at quite a few more airports now after the scare with the Nigerian man who tried to blow up an airplane with explosives that were taped to his body which went unnoticed in the typical metal detector and physical pat down searches, is a lot more of these full body scan devices.
These devices, which look like something straight out of a science fiction movie (albeit, one not that far in the future). They are a circular, clear glass device which you stand in the middle of while a device whirls around you, bouncing radio waves off of you and showing the human scanners what you have that might be hiding under your clothes. And yes, that includes your most intimate curves. If you look at the image one of these produces, if you had jelly rolls and large breasts, well, let’s just say that all those curves would be clearly outlined on the scanner screen for the screener to see.
With some being concerned about privacy infringement, I for one, honestly don’t mind it. Do I like it? No, of course, I don’t like what our society is turning into, which is more and more big brother as these terrorist attacks and the sneaky ways they go about getting dangerous items on board, intensifies, and the governments hand is forced deeper into our personal lives because of it, but if it’s going to potentially save people’s lives, and save a victory for these sick terrorists who want to kill people to prove their points and to make people terrified to do anything, then so be it.
If you feel self conscious about it, know that only the screeners can see your most intimate outlines, and that it really is necessary in this age of terrorism. I know it’s easy to get angry over the constant infringement of our privacy rights, but it is the fault of the extremists who have made this type of things necessary by killing innocent people in 9/11 style attacks, and it’s the only way we have unfortunately to combat it.
Many new mothers, or even second time mothers, or third or so on, are a little confused about how long they really can keep their breast milk in the refrigerator with it still being good, aka not spoiled, retaining all of it’s nutritional value with fresh vitamins, minerals and nutrients, and not beginning to degrade (rot) or grow any sort of potentially harmful bacteria. Many think that breast milk can be refrigerated for up to 5-8 days in the fridge without going bad, but they still prefer to keep it in the fridge for only two to three days at the most, to give their babies the freshest and most nutrient dense milk possible.
Of course, there is also the option of freezing the breast milk, and many mothers do that as well. The biggest concern, and the reasons that most guidelines exist is not for the nutritional value being compromised if the breast milk sits around for too long before being used, being exposed to the air which naturally degrades any food object, but mostly it focused on the harm that bacterial growth might do to an infant if it grew on the milk, and so the guidelines were put in place.
However, new studies, based on the impact of time in the fridge storage on the nutritional value of the breast milk is now available. And what’s the verdict on how long you can store your breast milk in at least a below 40 degree refrigeration device without it losing any of its nutritional punch for your little bundle of joy? The verdicts is about 4 days.
The final verdict on the composition of the milk being held intact was a period of 4 days, which is 96 hours. If the milk is in the fridge longer than that, it may start to lose some of the beneficial vitamins, minerals, fatty acids and potentially the antibodies that are passed to the child, so the recommendation if you want to maintain that maximum freshness and wholesome value of your breast milk, then try to use it within 4 days of pumping it. This way, you can ensure that your child is getting the best nutritional benefits from your milk for their continued brain and organ development.
Heck, you could have a baby genius on our hands if you keep feeding them this super baby stuff
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Pregnancy produces so many changes in a woman’s body that it’s difficult to list all of them, especially since different women experience the symptoms of pregnancy with such different stories. While one woman may have morning sickness pretty much as soon as the pregnancy incepts, another may never have morning sickness. While one may have breast tenderness from the first day, another may not have it until way later in her first trimester, or even in her second or third. However, most women will experience some degree of breast enlargement during their pregnancy, and it most likely will occur during her first trimester.
Engorgement of the breasts may not occur fully until later on in the pregnancy, however, many women at least experience the soreness and tenderness, which most describe as similar to the changes in their breasts they often feel with premenstrual syndrome, where their breasts become sore and enlarged due to hormonal changes. The reason that the breasts enlarge during pregnancy is that the body essentially is preparing the woman’s breasts for breast feeding hew newborn infant when the child comes out to meet the world.
The hormonal changes that make that happen actually make the breasts feel tender and sore, and many women report that they can see their veins and blood vessels much more easily in their breasts, especially if their skin is more on the fair side. I’m one of those women, when I am pms’ing, I can definitely see my veins much more in my breasts, especially if I’m pretty pale at the time. This is also due to hormonal changes that push the vessels closer to the skin’s surface.
Another thing that happens to a pregnant woman’s breasts is that over time she will start to notice the nipple and the areola, the darker area around the nipple that is different in size depending on the woman, will start to turn a little darker, and often times the nipples will stiffen and stick out a little more. This may perhaps be nature’s way of helping an infant, who can’t see very far, be self guided toward the nipple to feed from it.
The enlarging of the breasts pretty much continues all the way through the pregnancy, and after the pregnancy as well, especially if a woman is breast feeding and her breasts have become engorged with milk. She will usually notice that her breasts go down in size as soon as the milk begins to dry up and her newborn has stopped feeding. Mother nature is truly amazing when you think about it, it’s quite a process!
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John Kerry, the former Democratic presidential nominee, has a wife named Teresa Heinz who is currently fighting breast cancer. I feel bad describing her that way, but didn’t know how else to tell you who she is, although she is quite an active spokesperson herself, and John Kerry’s whitehouse bid seems somehow that it was now ions away. How is that anyways? I think that Teresa Heinz was alarmed by what she has seen in the news as of late about the mixed messages that women are getting about mamograms and when they should start getting them, some say at 40 others at fifty, and she wanted to come out and voice her opinion since this is clearly something that is close to her heart.
To refresh your memory, a panel has recently instructed women that they do not need to have their mammographies starting at the age of forty as previously indicated, and having them yearly, but rather they can wait until they are fifty and not have them as often. This recommendation set off a litany of criticism, by man women as well as men, as a lot of people think that mammographies saved lives, and many women who were diagnosed through these screenings say they would have never known had it not been for these tests. Not to mention, the recommendation is really pissing a lot of people off who are in the health profession themselves.
As a matter of fact, I’m only 35, and because I have breast cancer in my family history on the female side, my doctor recommended that I receive a mammogram now. She did not believe in the recommendation that the panel gave, and advised me of her opinion. I trust her, so I actually took her prescription for the mammogram and intend to go have one done, and of course report back to you about my experience once it’s done.
Since Ms. Heinz herself was diagnosed through a mammogram, although at age 71, she says that she doesn’t see why they would instruct against them for younger women. Especially when it is more treatable at these early stages, and saves a lot of hassle, heartache and pain, not to mention money and insurance premiums, when it is caught earlier on and the survival and treatment rate is much more successful. I feel like we were kind of dealt a bad blow with this recommendation, and they should just take it back, it’s confusing too many women over an already intensely private decision and a hard one at that.
It’s hard to say that all breast implants many times feel hard to the touch, but there are many implants that do, and that’s just because they are not a really soft material like natural breast tissue is, and it’s very hard to mimic real breast tissue in the breast augmentation process, no matter how good the implants get in mimicking real, soft breast tissue. I’ve heard this complaint a lot from women who have breast implants, sometimes even the ones who have silicone breast implants, which are supposed to be a lot softer and more pliable feeling than the saline ones are.
I’ve even heard some men complain that their partners implants are hard to the touch, and that they like when their partner is going through hormonal changes in preparation for her period because her breasts actually feel natural, thanks to the “additional padding” they get from the hormone changes and the swelling of the breast tissue – the real breast tissue. Many women even go for breast implant alternatives that help to add more natural tissue to their breasts over their implants because they don’t feel that their breast implants move or feel like natural breasts and would like to add more of their own tissue to them to make them more realistic and pleasant to touch and look at.
This is terrible, but I heard a popular radio show co host talking about his ex girlfriend, who he had just had a terrible, non-amicable breakup with, and who happened to be a very desirable looking woman, ripping on how her breast implants felt. He said something like “sure they look great in clothes” but added that they felt hard, like a bag of rocks, to the touch. This is unfortunately the case with lots of breast implants.
Not only do you have the unnatural feel of the implant itself, but they often get harder over time because some women build up scar tissue around them as a defense mechanism the body shows in response to having a foreign device in their body, and this adds to the hardness, so women are forced to deal with the implant itself and the scar tissue causing the extra feeling of hardness of the breast.
And if you get cold, forget it, your implants feel like rocks, hopefully they will come out with some better, but safe, options that really make your breasts look and feel natural, until then, I don’t blame women for hating this part about their implants.
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