My husbands best friend of 16 years is having a baby. They were earning more than us,(she is now too pregnant to work), and have always/ still live well beyond their means. They eat out regularly, rent an aunts house which they haven’t paid rent in 3 months, buy designer clothes for them & unborn, have spent $4000 on baby gear,(not including nursery gear)- despite being offered free stuff from a brother who had used his stuff on 1 baby & they just got a personal loan for $20,000- for a car, & a $2000 engagement ring. When we give them advice on how to save, get their own home, save money by buying good quality but less expensive baby items & clothes, buy 2nd hand goods- they brush it off. They say they want only “the best” and it makes me feel like they think we dont want the best for our child or they think their money makes them better than us. We are in a great situation- own home,car-no debt, and they are nearly $40,000 in debt. Should I ignore them & smile or say something?

we’ve only learned two equation formulas for free fall:
v=gt
d=1/2gt^2
and two for speed / acceleration:
s=d/t
a= V2 – V1
————
T2 – T1
so don’t make them too complicated please !

I was shopping with my friend and she would only get Stayfree. She said she tried Always, and she had to change them more often and they leaked. Are Stayfree really more comfortable, and keep you drier and better protected than Always? I will not exept answers containing tampons or comments about pads feeling like diapers. Just Always or Stayfree. Feel free to use personal experiences or stories to better explain your answers.

My son stayed with my husbands mom for a weekend and had NEVER had a diaper rash! When he came home he had a very bad one! It isnt getting any better and i think its starting to hurt him (his two top teeth are coming in so i cant tell which it is!) My mom thinks it could be a bacterial infection. See we used these chlorine free diapers and since the chlorine is used to kill the bacteria… Help please!! We cant get in to see the doctor till next wednesday and we cant afford the er! He is 5 months btw! thanks

Im wondering whats best to use. They say to use water with low flouride content. I live in windsor, ontario and the water here is polluted. I dont trust the tap water. I buy distilled bottle water from Culligans. But they also sell ionized water. Which one is best for baby? Also, these bottled waters come in plastic which contain that BPA so now im worried about that. I know the water is at room temperature but how do i know that when these bottles are shipped they are sitting in the hot sun or previous people who recycle these jugs leave them sitting out side in the sun? Man talk about being worried. Any suggestions? thanks

Costco, or diapers.com? Seeing as diapers.com delivers them (free shipping over 50) to your door, I’m considering just buying my diapers from there from now on, because I’d hate to buy a membership to costco just for diapers, and I doubt that if I go in there I will just by diapers. But then I heard that diapers.com pampers are a different quality than store pampers. I don’t know if that is true but i’d hate to find out first hand.

I got the The First Years Clean Air Odor Free Diaper Pail and Playtex Diaper Genie II Diaper….what are the pros and cons? Which should I keep?

Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas , Texas is a fairly famous institution and for a variety of reasons:
1. John F. Kennedy died there in 1963.
2. Lee Harvey Oswald died there shortly after.
3. Jack Ruby-who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, died there a few years later..by coincidence.
“On the flip side, Parkland is also home to the second busiest maternity ward in the country with almost 16,000 new babies arriving each year. (That’s almost 44 per day—every day)
A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the wo men who gave birth at Parkland in the first three months of 2006 were illegal immigrants. That’s 11,200 anchor babies born every year just in Dallas.
According to the article, the hospital spent $70.7 million delivering 15,938 babies in 2004 but managed to end up with almost $8 million dollars in surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million, Dallas County taxpayers kicked in $31.3 million and the feds tossed in another $9.5 million.
The average patient in Parkland ‘s maternity wards is 25 years old, married and giving birth to her second child. She is also an illegal immigrant. By law, pregnant women cannot be denied medical care based on heir immigration status or ability to pay.
OK, fine. That doesn’t mean they should receive better care than everyday, middle-class American citizens. But at Parkland Hospital , they do.
Parkland Memorial Hospital has nine prenatal clinics. NINE.
The Dallas Morning News article followed a Hispanic woman who was a patient at one of the clinics and pregnant with her third child—her previous two were also born at Parkland . Her first two deliveries were free and the Mexican native was grateful because it would have cost $200 to have them in Mexico This time, the hospital wants her to pay $10 per visit and $100 for the delivery but she was unsure if she could come up with the money. Not that it matters, the hospital won’t turn her away. (I wonder why they even bother asking at this point.)
How long has this been going on? What are the long-term affects? Well, another subject of the article was born at Parkland in 1986 shortly after her mother entered the U.S. illegally—now she is having her own child there as well. (That’s right, she’s technically a U.S. citizen.) These women receive free prenatal care including medication, nutrition, birthing classes and child care classes. They also get freebies such as car seats, bottles, diapers and formula.
Most of these things are available to American citizens as well but only for low-income applicants and even then, the red tape involved is almost insurmountable.
Because these women are illegal immigrants, they do not have to provide any sort of legitimate identification—no proof of income. An American citizen would have to provide a social security number which would reveal their annual income—an illegal immigrant need only claim to be poor and the hospital must take them at their word.
“My husband is a pilot for the United States Navy (yes, he fought in Iraq ) and while the health care is good, we Navy wives don’t get any of these perks!” Car seats? Diapers? Not so much. So my question is this: Does our public medical care system treat illegal immigrants better than American citizens? Yes it does!
As I mentioned, the care I have received is perfectly adequate but it’s bare bones, meat and potato medical care—not top of line.
Their (the illegals) medical care is free—simply because they are il legal immigrants? Once again, there is no way to verify their income.
Parkland Hospital offers indigent care to Dallas County residents who earn less than $40,000 per year. (They also have to prove that they did not refuse health coverage at their current job. Yeah, the ‘free’ care is not so easy for Americans.)
There are about 140 patients who received roughly $4 million dollars for un-reimbursed medical care. As it turns out, they did not qualify for free treatment
because they resided outside of Dallas County So the hospital is going to sue them! Illegals get it all free! But U.S citizens who live outside of Dallas County get sued! How stupid is this?
As if that isn’t annoying enough, the illegal immigrant patients are actually complaining about hospital staff not speaking Spanish. In this AP story, the author speaks with a woman who is upset that she had to translate comments from the hospital staff into Spanish for her husband. The doctor was trying to explain the situation to the family and the mother was forced to translate for her husband who only spoke Spanish. This was apparently a great injustice to her.
In an attempt to create a Spanish-speaking staff, Parkland Hospital is now providing incentives in the form of extra pay for applicants who speak Spanish. Additionally, medical students at the University of Texas Southwestern for which Parkland Hospital is the training facility will now have a Spanish language requirement added to their already jammed-packed curriculum. No other school in the country boasts such a ridiculous multi-semester (multicultural) req uirement.
In the meantime, I have to end my column here. I have to go buy a car seat.”
(Ed: Sorry for the length, but this needs wide circulation—-particularly to our “employees” in Congress.)
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY US CITIZEN YOU KNOW.
If you want to verify accuracy: http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigrati…

dont know what to buy if the liquid or the loose powder. i want only physicians formula no other brands because im so oily and acne prone dont want to use other brands anymore because my face always breakout when using other brands except for neutrogena, clinique and vmv hypoallergenics. but now i want to try physicians formula because it’s oil free, hypo allergenic, talc free and most of all non comedogenic. anyone have tried physicians formula please help which one i should try. thanks….

There has actually been studies to show that soy can cause swelling in the brains of young children and babies. My son what Lactose Intolerent and I used the lactose free stuff.