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Prepregnancy cardiometabolic and inflammatory risk factors and subsequent risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 05/25/2012
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Hedderson MM et al. – Prepregnancy cardiometabolic and inflammation risk profile may help clinicians identify high risk women to target for early intervention or management of hypertensive disorder of pregnancy.
Methods- A retrospective cohort study of 3,380 women who took part in a comprehensive multiphasic health checkup (MHC) exam between 1984 and 1996 and had a subsequent delivery in Kaiser Permanente Northern California.
- 205 women were diagnosed with a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy.
- Prepregnancy measurements of overweight/obesity (BMI ≥ 25.0 kg/m2), pre–hypertension and inflammation (leukocytes ≥ 7.2 103/μL) were independently associated with hypertensive disorder of pregnancy risk [odds ratios (95% confidence intervals): 1.6 (1.2–2.3), 2.1(1.5–2.8) and 1.6 (1.1–2.3), respectively].
- Being overweight/obese and having pre–hypertension before pregnancy was associated with a 3.5–fold increased risk of hypertensive disorder of pregnancy compared with women with normal levels of both risk factors.


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Let me start by sharing my experience and I will get straight to the point. When I launched my restaurant with a limited budget for advertising the grand opening. I had a postcard created from a local graphics design for around $100. The offer was 10% the entire check. Found a few out-of-state printers that had postcard printing specials for about $350 @ 5000 pieces full color including shipping (you can search online, there are always postcard printing specials). I went around to all the non-restaurant business, introduced myself and ask if I can leave some postcards on their counter. Most allow me to do so.
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Is women's basketball a kinder, gentler game? The WNBA shows that women aren't nicer than men -- but they aren't better, either.
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Once again, the New York Liberty and the Houston Comets are facing off in the National Women's Basketball Association championship finals, as they have three out of the past four years. And so far the only mystery has been whether the Comets — the overwhelming favorites — would win the three-game series in two games or three. (Houston beat New York 59-52 in Game 1 Thursday night.)
But the debate over the WNBA may be even more interesting than the playoffs. The league remains a battlefield for gender politics, and here, the arguments are as familiar as a Houston-New York championship series.
To the WNBA's detractors — from anonymous Web surfers who post abusive messages in women's basketball chat rooms, to many sports radio talk-show hosts and a few conservative commentators — the "league of their own" is an insidious exercise in political correctness, an attempt to shove a ridiculous pseudo-sport down the throats of the American public in the name of gender equity. After Slate, for instance, published an article praising the WNBA's dynasty, the Houston Comets, one response posted on the site's message boards derided the Comets' trophies as "glorified doorstops" while another rather graphically claimed that it was better to be "de-balled with a rusty spoon" than to watch a WNBA game. Last year, Debbie Schlussel, a columnist for the Jewish World Review, sneered that the WNBA should really stand for "Weird Nuisance Brought on America."
Others are less strident in their criticism and even generously credit the women's hard work and dedication, but still dismiss WNBA basketball as slow, sloppy and hopelessly below the rim.
Many WNBA defenders, meanwhile, feel compelled to assert that women's basketball is not just as good as the NBA, but better. The league, they declare, is basketball the way it should be — an emphasis on team play and solid fundamental skills — while the men's game has degenerated into showboating, trash-talking and clashes under the basket by superstars with super-sized egos. To WNBA defenders, the league's signature absence of dunking becomes a virtue: A slam-dunk, after all, has no purpose but to show off and to humiliate the opponent. Women, as we all know, are too nice for such things.
Some of this women-are-just-nicer corn syrup shows up in Slate's recent paean to the Houston Comets, titled "The Best Team in Sports." While William Saletan praises the Comets for making WNBA basketball less ladylike — by forcing other teams to adapt to Houston's aggressive style of play — he still credits certain womanly virtues with helping them win four straight titles. He says the Comets' "Big Three" — two-time Most Valuable Player Cynthia Cooper, this year's MVP Sheryl Swoopes and underappreciated Tina Thompson — have "held their egos in check" and worked together.
Saletan also notes that the Comets have handled fame much better than the Dallas Cowboys, who, "like other male dynasties, dissolved in an orgy of drugs, car crashes, sexual violence and feuding" after winning their second straight Super Bowl. Another example of female superiority: When the Comets' Janeth Arcain was "whacked in the face" by the Sparks' Lisa Leslie during the conference finals and no foul was called, she "simply walked away" and helped win the game. "In the NBA," Saletan argued, "fists would have been thrown and players would have been ejected."
Reality check, please. The simple fact is that the women of the WNBA have not had to cope with the same temptations of fame and fortune as men's teams, for the simple reason that, like it or not, they don't get anything close to that kind of money or that kind of attention. When Cooper, 37, announced in July that she was retiring after this season — an event that, in the context of the WNBA, was equivalent to Michael Jordan's retirement — the news made no front-page headlines outside Houston.
But the women's game is no haven of ego-free harmony. When Cooper broke the news of her impending retirement, she suggested that she was unhappy with her somewhat diminished role after Swoopes had eclipsed her as the top scorer. All this apparently came as a shock to her teammates and her coach, Van Chancellor, and Cooper's statement was widely criticized ("The bottom line is that if Cooper can't be the biggest star on the team, she will take her ball and go home," wrote Michelle Smith at ESPN.com). Cooper later made comments that could be read as a retraction, but not before the controversy threw the team into disarray.
Even fists occasionally fly on the court in the WNBA. Near the end of Game 3 of last year's Western Conference finals, between the Sparks and the Comets, Cooper and Thompson taunted the losing Sparks, mocking the salute that Leslie and fellow Sparks star DeLisha Milton had used throughout the playoffs to celebrate successful plays. With emotions near the boiling point, Leslie suddenly charged Thompson, slamming her in the throat with both forearms. She had to be pulled aside and held down by several officials and teammates. Both Leslie and Thompson were ejected and later fined. (Earlier, during the 1999 regular season, several players of the Detroit Shock and the Cleveland Rockers were suspended after a scuffle broke out during a game.)
Is there more team play in the WNBA? Yes, for two reasons: Few players have the athleticism to break through the defense and put the ball in the basket on their own; and the women's league allows the zone defense, in which more than one defender can guard a player away from the ball. But here, the differences between the NBA and the WNBA have been overrated.
The ratio of assists to baskets is about the same in the men's and the women's games, and in both leagues, it's usually a few top players on a team who are responsible for most of the scoring. The reign of the Houston Comets, who have been blessed with the league's two best players (Swoopes and Cooper) and another who is unquestionably one of its top 10 (Thompson) shows that in the WNBA, too, superstars matter.
Indeed, while "unselfish basketball" is a term of praise in the men's game as well as the women's, one of the highest compliments in the WNBA is that a player can "create her own shot," splitting or going over the defense without being bailed out by her teammates. It's certainly true of Swoopes and Cooper, and of a growing number of younger players such as the Washington Mystics' Chamique Holdsclaw, New York's Tari Phillips or the Phoenix Mercury's Brandy Reed.
Is dunking far behind? While a number of WNBA players do dunk during practice, the elusive slam-dunk has yet to happen in a game. It is doubtful that this is because dunking just isn't nice to the opponent; anyone who doubts that the psychological destruction of the enemy is a part of women's basketball cannot have seen the Comets rout the Sparks in Game 1 of this year's conference finals.
One reason for the absence of dunks that in the women's game, defenders are not accustomed to clearing out from under the basket when a player goes up for a dunk, so the athletes and coaches legitimately fear the injuries that could result if one player landed hard on top of another.
Another irony, though, is that ego — not the absence of it — may play a major role in the failure to clear out to make way for the dunk: No one wants to be the first to be dunked on. A dunk — probably by Leslie — was widely expected during this year's WNBA's All-Star game, the second in the league's existence. It was prevented by a stifling, hacking defense from the East's overmatched All-Star team, more appropriate to the playoffs than to an exhibition game whose outcome does not count for anything. "Sorry, no one's dunking on us," Holdsclaw snapped in a media interview.
Weatherspoon was equally resolute: "It's all fun and games and everything, but we're not letting that happen." As Arizona Republic sports columnist Dan Bickley pointed out, the East's "competitive reflex" got in the way of an event that could have greatly raised the WNBA's appeal in the eyes of the average sports fan.
As the WNBA matures, the quality of the game — often still shaky, though hardly without its own brand of speed, flash and athleticism — will undoubtedly continue to improve. Already, it has improved well beyond the level of debut season 1997 — due partly to more experience, partly to the infusion of new talent. Whether women's basketball can ever achieve a following equivalent to men's, as has happened in tennis, is something we probably won't know for a long time.
It is troubling that attendance this year dropped to an all-time low — about 8,900 per game, down from 10,200 last year and about 9,700 in the first season. The drop is partly due to the fact that the season started early this year to accommodate the Olympics, and the start of the season overlapped with the NBA finals. Still, this raises questions about the WNBA's long-term ability to compete for a share of the sports market outside the increasingly restrictive confines of the short summer season.
On the other hand, there are also good signs. Television ratings are holding steady or improving, and this year twice as many people participated in the all-star balloting as last year.
It is certainly premature to raise the question of anything like equal pay for WNBA players, as track star Marion Jones did in a famous Nike commercial complaining that "sistahs" are getting paid less in pro sports, even though they work as hard as the men. The ad provoked a storm of controversy. Some sensibly argued that female athletes should get less money as long as they draw much smaller audiences; others chauvinistically tried to make the case that female athletes should get paid less no matter what, because they couldn't compete against men and are therefore inferior. Of course, if the WNBA ever draws anything close to the level of the NBA, the salary gap will narrow sharply.
Of course, there's a vicious cycle in all this: The limitations imposed on the WNBA by its short season and relatively small budget probably hurt the league's quality of play. The teams get to spend little time together in training camp, the games are often closely spaced together with little time to rest, and the fatigue factor is compounded by the fact that when the teams are on the road they fly commercial, not charter as in the NBA. On one occasion the New York Liberty had to delay a game and then start playing 10 minutes after arriving at the arena because of flight cancellations.
Not much can be done to change that in the near future. The WNBA simply has to compete harder for fans' attention. But its defenders don't help its cause by billing the league as kinder, gentler basketball. Increasingly, WNBA players have their elbows out, and that's what they need to do to muscle ahead in the fight for sports dollars.
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This post is not directly related to hemostasis, but I want to highlight the retirements of three esteemed colleagues, Bernadette F. (Bunny) Rodak, MS MT (ASCP) SH, Professor of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program, Jacqueline H. Carr, MS MT (ASCP) Laboratory Manager, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, both at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis; and Carol McCoy, PhD, MLS (ASCP) CM, Director of the Medical Laboratory Science Program at Fairview Health Services, St Paul, MN. Bunny and Jackie are the co-authors of the iconic Clinical Hematology Atlas, published by Elsevier, and now in its 4th edition, 2013. Bunny and I have also served as co-editors and authors of Hematology, Clinical Principles and Applications, also published by Elsevier, now in its 4th edition, 2012, and preparing for its 5th edition. I have also had the opportunity to work together with Carol as co-members of the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science, where we served together on the Hematology/Hemostasis Scientific Assembly, as editors of the ASCLS Journal, Clinical Laboratory Science, and most recently as trustees for the ASCLS Education and Research Fund, Inc, a source of graduate student and member research grants. I look forward to continued professional initiatives with Bunny, Carol, and Jackie, my colleagues and friends.
From Barbara Caufield, Good Samaritan Hospital: We adjust the Na citrate volumes in coagulation tubes when the hematocrit (HCT) is > 55%. Do you recommend correcting for low HCTs? Can you tell me what formula you would use for a low HCT? At what HCT percentage do you recommend adjusting the sodium citrate? Thank you!
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We've had several posts about measuring the new oral anticoagulants, the most pressing concern for coagulation laboratories around the world as they are confronted with the need to determine the presence and levels of dabigatran, rivaroxaban, apixaban, and soon, edoxaban. Though pharmaceutical distributors reassure us there is no need for monitoring, we are confronted with patients who have renal insufficiency, who are bleeding from a possible, but undefined overdose, concerns for non-compliance, or patients with potential coagulation imbalances as are documented in cancer, liver disease, during pregnancy, obesity, small body mass, chronic DIC, or those suffering a current thrombotic episode. Especially troublesome for lab scientists are clinical efforts to screen for coagulopathies while patients are on anticoagulants, a recurring issue in which lab scientists attempt to integrate skewed results.
Dave McGlasson, hemostasis researcher at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center in San Antonio, is engaged in a large-scale dabigatran measurement project. He reports that a prominent Midwestern medical center uses 45–95 ng/mL as their therapeutic range, using the plasma-diluted thrombin time (DTT, Hemoclot® direct thrombin inhibitor). In the article in Europace (2013) 15, 625–51 (posted May 9, 2013 on Fritsma Factor) the authors, using the DTT, say that bleeding is documented when the result is ≥ 200 ng/mL (~65 seconds) at trough. Trough (nadir) is defined as just before the next dosage, or 12 hours after the previous dose. In Mr. McGlasson's study the range on subjects who have their blood drawn at different times of the day (convenience sample) is ~0–700 ng/mL using the DTT. Results are similar when measuring with the Ecarin chromogenic assay, prothrombinase-induced clotting time (PiCT) assay and the partial thromboplastin time (APTT, PTT). Mr. McGlasson asks, we are now working on establishing a therapeutic range, what are other sites seeing? Please provide your answer in the comments section below.
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Police were looking at a house in the 3800 block of Dunloe Ave. in Kennedy Heights on Tuesday, Sept. 11 as they continued to investigate the death of a newborn who was brought to Bethesda North Hospital.
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MONTGOMERY, Ohio - The body of a newborn infant dropped off at an area hospital in September and pronounced dead was too badly decomposed to determine a cause of death, officials said Tuesday.
Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco, Hamilton County coroner, said DNA technology has determined the newborn was a boy and who his biological mother was, although WCPO isn't naming the woman at this time.
"Concerning the cause and manner of death, due to severe decomposition it was not possible to even determine if the baby had been born alive," Sammarco said in a prepared statement. "Therefore, we were not able to assign a cause or manner of death."
The baby, who is believed to have been less than a week old, was brought by her mother and grandmother to Bethesda North Hospital on the night of Sept. 10.
Montgomery police determined the child was dead.
The infant, which was wrapped in a blanket, was so badly decomposed it was difficult to determine if the baby had suffered any trauma, Sammarco said in September.
Sammarco previously said the baby looked to be full term, but wasn't born in a hospital.
The investigation centered around a house in Kennedy Heights in the 3800 block of Dunloe Avenue.
Cincinnati police are working to determine if a crime was committed. Charges have not been filed.
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These are my first pair of zero drop "barefoot" running shoes and I must say they are amazing. Obviously I can't compare these with other similar styles but based on my first run I can say that the zero drop encourages a mid-foot or toe strike while the 13mm of cushion under your feet provides just enough cushion while allowing you to maintain a good grasp on the road. These and the Velcro version are both amazing. If you are looking for a minimalist shoe while still wanting a tad bid more protection from the ground than some of the other barefoot shoes, these are perfect. The LC model provided a widened toe box that allows for you toes to spread out with each step allowing for even more of a natural feel. My only gripe would be the placement of the rubber pods on the bottom. They are on the big toe region and on the heel. Because the eva sole is exposed foam, you would assume it would be wiser to put the rubber in areas where there are more amounts of contact. Other than that, these are a fantastic shoe. They look amazing on feet and weigh almost nothing. (Just over 4 ounces I believe).
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Saucony has provided a great shoe here for minimalist fans. I have gone running in these seven times now and am impressed with how light they are while also having a durable outsole. Still getting used to the slightly different way they carry my feet, but before these I was running in cheap Mossimo canvas flats, so that's not surprising. I am usually a 10 so ordered a 10.5 and they fit snug. One thing I notice is that my inner feet near the big toe are becoming slightly more callused, but that might just be due to the newness of the fit. These should last for a while and they look stylish too!
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Great shoes! Love that they are minimalist without having to look bizarre. Very light and comfortable, lots of room in the toes, zero drop, and just a tad bit of padding to smooth out those bumps in the road. I was surprised at how snug the 12s are, since I think of myself as an 11 and usually buy a size up to ensure my toes aren't compressed. So I went for 12.5s.
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I concur on theses being true to size. My last two pairs of running shoes were Nike frees. I have also yet to run in these, but they feel amazing so far. I'm mad that Nike has basically abandoned the "free" principle. Yes, I know they still make frees--but now with wayyy too much support. These hattori lc's feel like the future. I can't wait to run in these. Just jogging around my apartment tells me that these encourage a mid-foot strike. Shame on all the shoe mfgrs for forcing heel strikes for the past 40 years. I will update soon.
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I wanted to write a very quick review to address the small size comments related to the other version of this shoe. I ordered the new LC's in a size 10 at first after reading that the original Hattori's all ran .5-1 size too small. Well it turned out they must have fixed the issue in the LC version. I had to return and order a 9.5 instead(My actual size). They fit perfectly now! If you order this updated version of the shoe, make sure to order your regular size. :). Will update later on the actual feel after running for a bit.
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Natalie Miller is Elizabethtown's anchor.
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Quiet, calm and one strong freestyler, coach Mavi Sampaio counts on the Lady Panthers senior with bringing two of the team's three relays home.
She's one of his top four swimmers. She listens. She's passionate. And they trust each other. That's the most important aspect when you're the closer.
"She has always been a good relay swimmer. Some people swim better when they are in a team thing and other people depend on your results and your swimming and your performance. That's what relays are all about. You're not swimming for only yourself, you're swimming for three others, too. If you don't do well, if you swim slow or do bad, the other three will feel that, too," Sampaio said. "She has always been a good relay swimmer. She likes doing the relays. And they've done well for her."
This season, she and her teammates have delivered.
In four meets, Miller has swam on five winning relays (200 medley twice, 200 free twice and 100 free once) and two runner-ups. In the Nov. 17 Elizabethtown Invitational, she teamed with senior Ashley Hartlage, freshman Shelby Joy and seventh-grader Savannah Kingery to take the 200 free in 1:53.21 – 13.04 seconds ahead of Meade County.
Two weeks later, she finished off two more – teaming with sophomore Manuela Sampaio, freshman Madeline Rich and Kingery to win the 200 medley in 2:00.21 and the 200 free with Manuela Sampaio, freshman Marianna Godfrey and Joy in 1:49.60 – edging out the Elizabethtown B relay by .57 seconds.
In the Shelbyville Holiday Classic Sprints on Dec. 8, Miller brought home two more relay titles, as she, Godfrey, Manuela Sampaio and Mariana Sampaio won the 200 medley in 1:57.58 (more than 13 seconds ahead of Meade County) and she, Rich, Godfrey and junior Mary-Charlotte Pepper took the 100 free in 50.81 seconds.
She's also had a handful of top-three finishes in her 50 and 100 free individual races, including a runner-up finish (27.37 seconds) in the Shelbyville meet, where she was just .25 seconds behind Pepper.
Miller loves that 200 medley relay, though. With all four strokes involved and a tight race, especially against Woodford County when the Region 3 Swimming and Diving Championships roll around in February, it makes it interesting.
"Woodford County they have good other swimmers, but I'd always like (former Elizabethtown swimmer and current University of Louisville freshman) Emma (Coakley) going right before me because she was a really good butterflyer. So she got me ahead and it kind of took the pressure off, but I still, like, I can't let them down. But with Manuela, she's a good breaststroker, so she gets us up, too. I know Mariana is really good at butterfly now. And then our backstroker, it could be Marianna or whoever, but they're all really good," Miller said. "I like it just because it gets you really excited I guess as a team. It's really close actually. Woodford County last year, they were within two or three seconds, I think. So it's close and it's just good to see the team come together."
It's all about trust.
Mavi Sampaio has patiently helped Miller improve over the past four years.
He's given her, and other swimmers, tips on how to breathe less and worked relentlessly with Miller on her turns – two of the most important aspects in sprint events. She's even started to lift weights in order to increase her strength and pull more water. She's made significant improvements.
"Before Mavi came here, I did a dive and I'd go too deep, he said. So then I don't have fast underwater for kicking, so I would lose a lot of time there and a person would out-touch me because of it. But I learned to dive shallow and come up straight without any kicking, so that way I'm fast on top of the water, so by the time were down here, I'm flipping way before the other girls. And then the turn, you can't have a slow flip turn and you have to push hard off the wall and come straight back up," Miller said. "Then I've trained myself to only breathe once a 50. I was breathing about three times before."
When Miller took the summer off because she needed a break from swimming, Mavi Sampaio understood. Six months later, she returned to the pool – and he's back to helping her start to return to form, no questions asked.
"(With) relays it's always our best four. It doesn't matter who you are. I've got to put the best four that I have. And every time that she was there was because she was one of our best four," Mavi Sampaio said. "Plus I trust her. I trust her that she will do a good job."
That break helped Miller realize she missed the team camaraderie and the water. She missed the bonds and swimming together for a goal. And she realized she needed to take the sport seriously if she plans on swimming in college, hopefully at NAIA Lindsey Wilson College.
"This year you really have to say well if I'm going to school for it I really have to love it. So you have to really train hard in the water. And it's going to pay off," Miller said. "Winning regions last year it really paid off. But not much has changed. I guess just that I'm finally realizing this is what I want to do for the next four years, so I really have to put in the work for it."
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Brown got lead off Billy Joe Bryington to pop out and, after walking Blevins, he got Jarred Payne to hit into a force out. Leigh gloved the grounder at short and flipped it to Pemberton who got the tag on Bryington at second, then Pemberton threw to Dylan King at first to complete the double-play and end the game.
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It seems like everyone needs at least a little more room in the house. Instead of eyeing larger spaces, make more room by donating things your family doesn't use anymore. Clothes and toys outgrown get a new life and you get more space! Reorganize your current space, you may even find another purpose for the guest room that doesn't get used.
Buying Smart
What is the longevity of the item? Will others want it once you are done or will it end up in the garbage first? Purchase high quality products made from environmentally conscious companies and they will be enjoyed and used for years. Sometimes it seems like kids grow in and out of clothes and toys quicker than parents can buy them, but if they are playing with
Feeding the Family
Think about where your food comes from and start reading labels. Look for a farmer's market in your area and try to buy from local producers. Better yet, get your entire family involved in your own local production and start garden. If you don't have room in your yard, look in the community for group gardens or a CSA (community supported agriculture).
Bring your own beverage container. It's so easy to bring a reusable bottle wherever you go. As an added bonus, you don't need to find somewhere to dispose of any containers.
Keep an open mind about being more sustainable. Listen to ideas from others, consider what will work for your family and adopt them one at a time. Adopting sustainable habits little by little will start to add up over a year's time and will make a difference. You'll be happy to look back by next Earth Day!
Creating a chemical free playroom or kid's room for your child can be easy and fun when you have the right resources. We have put together some helpful tips to consider when creating a fun and safe play area for your child.
Eco-friendly flooring can be a great way to start off a green playroom. The best options for your child and the environment include: cork flooring, wood flooring and bamboo flooring. Cork flooring is available at many home stores and is produced sustainably, without damaging the tree, by trimming the bark. Wood flooring is another good option as there are many options and it is widely available. If you choose wood flooring, make sure is it FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified. Bamboo flooring provides the same timeless look as wood, is a highly renewable resource, and is harder than its wood flooring counterpart. Another great benefit about cork, wood, or bamboo flooring is they can be easily transitioned when the room is needed for another purpose after the kids are gone. You could even extend the look into other areas of the home for a remodel project.
Rugs and Play Mats
Floor coverings provide a great way to make defined areas for play or create a soft landing pad. Floor coverings can bring together a room's color scheme and make an impact on the overall room design! When you are looking for floor coverings for your child's room, choose PVC-free play mats (typically soy foam) and natural fiber rugs including: wool, jute, sisal, hemp, or bamboo.
Wall Paint
We have all heard stories about the chemicals that can be hiding in paint. The good news is—there are many safe options available on the market today. Eco-friendly options for "standard" paint can be found by looking on the labels at your local store for low or zero-VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) paints. Other, more eco-friendly options are becoming easier to find, such as milk and clay paints. Clay paints are available in a variety or tones and can be brightened by adding tints. Clay paint can be used like any conventional paint. Milk paint is another great option, which typically comes in powder form and can be customized by you ranging from full coverage to a wash thickness! Before going to the paint store, make sure to get an estimate for the amount of paint needed for your child's playroom by measuring the room. This will help save space in storage areas and will help the environment, too!
Window Coverings
Fear not, there are even great eco-friendly options for window coverings. Natural fibers, such as bamboo, rattan, hemp, sisal, or jute, will help promote healthy air quality and solar window panels can help reduce energy costs. Make sure the solar shades are not made of PVC (polyvinyl chloride).
Furnishings can really pull together a room and are oh-so-very practical. Some furniture you might be considering for your child's room are: toy boxes, bookcases, table and chair sets, and storage units. Kid's furniture made from sustainably harvested wood can be used for generations and can have extended use past childhood. Make sure the manufacturer is using low or zero-VOC paints and finished and non-toxic glues in construction. There are also other green kid's furniture options using repurposed and recycled materials.
Ok, here's the fun part. Well, the rest is fun too, but this is the goal, where your kids can dive in and have some fun! Choosing the right toys does not have to be challenging. There are plenty of manufacturers who have stepped up to the plate when it comes to producing sustainable, safe children's products. Here are some things to look for: FSC certified wood (at minimum), soy or water based inks, non-toxic glues and finishes and recycled materials. If you want to take it a step further, make sure the manufacturer has a sustainability policy or environmental program where they give back and do their part to reduce our environmental impact. If they have gone to great lengths, you can rest easy knowing there are making every effort to produce a safe products for your children!
Cleaning Supplies
This room is going to be used and loved by your children (and their friends). It is going to get messy, so make sure it looks and smells clean, not like chemicals, when the kids return for more play time! There are some great non-toxic options available from retailers or you can jump on the internet for a simple DIY cleaning recipe. Distilled vinegar goes a long way as an effective cleaning agent and can be enhanced by using tea tree oil, which is an anti-fungal agent and can be found with other essential oils. Baking soda is a very effective cleaning product for odors and stains and can be used as a scrubbing agent. It's simple and easy to use household products for all your cleaning purposes!
Don't overwhelm yourself with options and obligations; begin by taking small steps towards your ultimate goal. Any change towards an eco-friendly space for your children will be a healthy choice for your family and the environment. Breathe easy.
Manufacturer Spot Light: Merida Kids Rugs
This company is an environmentalist's dream manufacturer! I was thrilled, because of my own pursuits and pursuits of The Green Playroom's, to find a truly environmentally friendly kid's rug manufacturer who has all the elements of great design wrapped up in an extremely sustainable package!
The children's rugs are:
1. Elegant, stylish, current, and everything a parent wants out of a children's rug!
2. Fashion-forward and timeless (Yes, it happens!)
3. Made of natural fibers
4. Non-toxic, sustainable, and eco-friendly
5. Biodegradable and compostable by nature (I hear music, do you hear it too?)
6. Custom woven–Just like that, just for you!
7. Easy on your indoor air quality. You can breathe easy after opening the packaging.
The manufacturing focuses on:
1. Capitalizing on the unique nature of natural fibers and sustainability
2. Creatively overcome what other manufacturers see as "limitations" to produce durable, high-end rugs for children.
3. Reducing their carbon footprint
4. Reducing waste and pollution in production
5. Fair compensation for workers and a zero tolerance for child labor
Sustainability Philosophy:
"Sustainability has been a core value at Merida Meridian for over 30 years. To us, sustainability encompasses the continuity and permanence of families, communities, organizations and the earth itself. We dedicate ourselves to and are guided by this principle.
Of course, being a sustainable company involves complex environmental, social and economic considerations. We thoughtfully weigh these interrelated factors in all our business decisions, bringing us closer to the ideal of 100% sustainability every day."
Merida makes children's rugs with designs full of class, color and consciousness. Just look at these patterns!
I remember, when my daughter Rosie was about 6 months old, thinking about finding a safe, perhaps edible, artistic (yes, artistic) outlet for her. I had daydreams of her sitting shirtless in her high chair with colorful paints all around and a smile from cheek to cheek. Yes, I thought about creating my own paints using beets, spinach, and so forth. Frankly, it just didn't happen. I tried looking up recipes and thought about simply pulling some beets from the garden, pureeing them in the food processor and then letting her have fun. It just wasn't the same, besides, the beets would stain her skin if she had too much fun.
Alas, I found Wee Can Too edible art and am THRILLED to have The Green Playroom teaming up with them and offering their products to our customers. End your search for safe baby paints now! Wee Can Too has edible finger paints (they come in powder so they won't spoil quickly), edible crayons and edible sidewalk chalk (as if I need another reason to be excited for warm spring weather!).
My full review to follow very soon, complete with pictures of sweet Rosie covered in paint and powder!
We're here and excited! With my teething toddler by my side, we launched The Green Playroom today! We got some good cuddling time in and rocked our to do list! Now, onward and upward. The little one is feeling better and as we get ready to sit down to dinner, I am so thankful and thrilled to be at this point in my life and to bring The Green Playroom to life! There are so many exciting things in store for The Green Playroom!
In the very near future, I look forward to using this blog to share ideas and articles on eco-friendly kids rooms and playrooms, play room inspirations, and green technologies. Together, we can each do our own little part to lessen our environmental impact and teach our children to harness resources effectively. All in a days play!
We're getting everything polished and ready to "hit the ground running" tomorrow! Along with this, TheGreenPlayroom's very first press release. It's officially official. More to come as we get moving!!
Company: The Green Playroom
Contact: Ashley Gutknecht
E-mail: email@example.com
Phone: 866-260-5252
Ashley Gutknecht Launches TheGreenPlayroom.com
Bismarck, ND- On March 1st, Ashley Gutknecht will launch TheGreenPlayroom.com, a website devoted to sustainably minded individuals looking for eco-friendly toys, children's furniture and room décor for children's playrooms.
TheGreenPlayroom.com will feature a beautiful selection of sustainable, non-toxic, eco-friendly furniture and room décor including: bookcases, storage table and chair sets, toy boxes, wall shelving and peg racks, and wall art. The toy collection features top eco-friendly brands including Wonderworld and PlanToys and great hard to find brands like Manny & Simon and Maple Landmark who feature eco-friendly wooden toys made in the USA. The toy collection includes baby toys such as push toys, rattles and teethers, toddler toys like push and pull toys, ride-on toys and wooden building blocks and pretend play toys and games for older children.
A commitment to safe, non-toxic and earth friendly products is the corner stone to TheGreenPlayroom.com, which boasts a product selection sure to pass any green inspection! Brands are carefully researched and selected to make sure they have the environment in mind throughout their business practices while also promoting innovation, learning and creativity through children's products. "We do all the research to find the best eco-friendly, non-toxic toys for children so you can spend less time searching for the perfect, safe toy and more time playing with the kids!!" said Ashley Gutknecht, owner of TheGreenPlayroom.com. "It is important to provide children with high quality, durable products and toys which will effectively harness our resources and have children delighting in play!"
Founded by ecommerce industry veterans and a mother concerned about reducing our global footprint and providing children with safe and inspiring products, TheGreenPlayroom.com offers sustainable, eco-friendly and non-toxic furniture, room décor, and toys for children's rooms. For more information, please call us at (866) 260-5252 or visit us at www.thegreenplayroom.com!


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This is the cool idea I was thinking of yesterday. Usually my scrap quilts use shorter cuts, but this one needs a full width of fabric cut, so strips are 1.5" X 44" (or close) I sewed the 4 strips together and pressed them in one direction, then used the wondercut ruler to cut triangles from the set. You get two opposite blocks from one strip set, so cut 8 triangles (there will be a bit left over, but not much!)
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Five local women portraying "Sex in the City" characters
Five local women recently went out on the town to celebrate their "Sex in the City" party. If you can guess which character is being represented by which woman, you get a prize of, um, Carrie Bradshaw's 'do? OK, here are the actual participants, from left, Kate Torbenson, Sarah Sutter, Lisa Schuler, Steph Sutter and Holly Blihovde (who said that she, like Bradshaw, is also a writer). Photo by Joe Winter
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