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Chic Kids' is having a clearance sale which begins on Thursday 29th January until 7th February 2009.

All clothing* will be marked down by up to 35%, and to sweeten the deal further, all KidstyleFile readers will received a further 15% off storewide. That is a saving of up to 50% off the gorgeous range of clothing including Bebe, Marquise, Baobab and Moppit just to name a few.

How do you take advantage of this great deal? It is simple, all you have to do is check out KidstyleFile  on Thursday and grab the special code. One lucky customer who uses the KidstyleFile discout code will go into the draw to win a very cute Brio Wooden Racing Car! 

* Excluding Footwear

Chic Kids

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Serves: 24

Special Info:

Ingredients:

• 100g butter
• 1/4 cup caster sugar
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 4 cups corn flakes

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Place 24 paper cases in cupcake or muffin trays.

Place butter, sugar and honey in a saucepan and stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved. Bring to boil and then remove from heat. Place cornflakes in a large bowl, add honey mixture and stir (gently) to combine.

Spoon mixture into paper cases and bake for 10 minutes. Cool on wire racks and store in airtight containers for up to a week.

Print out this checklist to use as your guide for what you'll need to bring with you to the hospital in your overnight bag. 

Infant Car Seat

You must have a baby seat for the trip home.  No hospital will allow you to leave without one, no excuses, it's against the law.  If your delivery companion is staying at the hospital for the duration of your stay, bring THE INFANT SEAT WITH YOU, or install before taking baby home.

Sleepwear

Several comfortable nightgowns and robes. Don't bring anything fancy that will get ruined.

Reading Materials

Magazines, books, newspapers.  Some people don't care about reading at a time like this, but you never know, it could be a long wait.

Radio, Tape, Or CD Player

Bring your favorite relaxing music, and plenty of fresh batteries. Many couples prefer to bring their music into the labor and delivery room.  New mothers may want a few moments of relaxation music during recovery if they are left alone. 

Toiletries

Toothbrush, tooth paste, shampoo, gentle soap, deodorant, hair brush, other toiletries.

Camera and Camcorder

Make sure you have plenty of fresh film and batteries.   Make sure your camcorder batteries are charged and don't forget the battery charger.  Use the best camera and film you can get.

Baby's Outfits

Clothes that you would like your baby to be dressed in in the hospital. And dont forget the homecoming outfit.

Have the host read out loud a part of the rhyme to be finished by the other women. Let's see how many Baby Shower Guests can finish the following Rhymes we have all grown up with:

1) Mary had a little lamb, it's _____________ was white as snow.

2) Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any _____________?

3) Mary, Mary, quite _____________, how does your garden grow?

4) Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub, and how do you think ____________ _____________ ____________?

5) Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, _________________ ________________!

6) Little Jack Horner, sat in a corner, eating his ______________ pie;

7) Little Miss Muffet, sat on a tuffet, eating her ________________ and _______________.

8) Peter Piper picked a peck of ____________ _____________.

9) One, two, buckle my shoe, three four, _____________ at the door.

10) Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater, had a wife but couldn't ____________ her.

11) Old Mother Hubbard, went to the _______________.

12) There was an old woman, who lived in a _______________.

13) Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no ___________.

14) Hey diddle, diddle, the ____________ and the fiddle.

15) Rock-a-bye baby, on the __________________.

Here are the answers below to the questions. It is great to give the winner a baby shower small gift for participating. Read the answers that people have put out loud since you will have some funny ones.

1) fleece 2) wool 3) contrary 4) they got there 5) Baker's man
6) Christmas 7) curds, whey 8) pickled peppers 9) knock 10) keep
11) cupboard 12) shoe 13) lean 14) cat 15) treetop

What You'll Need

• A packet of jellybabies
• Ice cube trays - enough for one cube per guest
• Cups of equal size, disposable are ideal

How To Play

This needs to be prepared the night before the baby shower. Place one jellybaby into each ice cube slot and fill with water. They need to be frozen to play.

For the baby shower, announce that you are starting a game and give everyone a drink of water or punch etc., in a cup filled to the same height and tell them not to drink it.

Bring around a bowl of the jellybabies and ask each guest to pick one frozen jellybaby and put it in their drink for the game. Remind them not to start drinking until everyone has a jellybaby.

Once everyone is ready, the game can begin. The first jellybaby to be ‘born' (from the ice completely melting) is the winner! The cubes must melt on their own accord - no crunching the ice. Even if someone wasn't paying attention at the time and theirs has melted, the winner is the first person to notice their baby has been born.

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What you need:

Pre-Printed Form and pen for each guest

How to play:

Have each women guess what features she wants most on the baby from either her or her husband.

Example:

Source: The Daily Telegraph

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,24921405-5007185,00.html

By Lisa Davies The Daily Telegraph January 17, 2009 12:00am

IT is the question every couple going through IVF wants to know, and now doctors can give provide the answer following the world's longest study.

What is the chance of having a baby?

For women undergoing IVF aged up to 35, chances of success are between 65 and 86 per cent.
But Australian fertility experts believe the success rate could be as high as 95 per cent due to the past decade's technological advances.

More than 6000 American women undergoing IVF were followed by researchers between 2000 and 2005.

The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, will help doctors worldwide give more accurate advice to couples.

It found women aged over 40 have between a 23 and 42 per cent chance of a successful birth.

Up until now, doctors have only been able to estimate pregnancies per IVF cycle, not the patient's chance of having a baby.

Associate Professor Peter Illingworth said patients could now be better informed.

"The results are very, very encouraging for young women,'' he said.

"What it shows is the vast majority of women who go on with IVF (up to six cycles) will end up having a baby.''

Infertility affects about 6 million people in Australia, similar to overseas rates.

Sydney IVF has already begun to track the success of its couples and has produced results supporting the new research.

Medical director Mark Bowman said Australia led the way in the field of fertility treatment.

"It is the No.1 question people ask,'' Dr Bowman said. ``What the data also shows is if you are the type of person IVF can help, then you are most likely to have a baby very quickly and you won't have to keep going on with treatment.''

When Eva Barbaro, of Ryde, began fertility treatment two years ago, doctors were unable to give her a strong indication of her chances of conceiving.

Then aged, 29, Mrs Barbaro suffered from polycystic ovaries and underwent intrauterine insemination, where a concentrated preparation of her partner's sperm was placed into the womb at the time of ovulation. She fell pregnant straight away.

Now expecting her second child, Mrs Barbaro used IVF and again fell pregnant with the first attempt.

Now 25 weeks pregnant and nursing her one-year-old daughter, Monique, Mrs Barbaro counts herself lucky.

Source: Science Daily

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090114075759.htm

ScienceDaily (Jan. 14, 2009) - Researchers S. Stanley Young, Ph.D., Assistant Director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences, Heejung Bang, Ph.D., of Cornell University and Kutluk Oktay. MD, FACOG, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Director, Division of Reproductive Medicine & Infertility Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology from New York Medical College, wrote a paper, "Cereal-Induced Gender Selection? Most Likely a Multiple Testing False Positive," which has been published in the January 14, 2009 online issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The paper questions the claims made by Mathews, Johnson and Neil (2008) in their article "You are What your Mother Eats" that was published in the April 22, 2008 Proceedings of the Royal Society B, and generated over 50,000 Google hits due to media interest.

Young, Bang & Oktay note that the original research by Mathews, Johnson & Neil implied that children of women who eat breakfast cereal are more likely to be boys than girls. Young, Bang & Oktay assert that the result of the original study is easily explained as chance. Young, Bang & Oktay examined the data sets from the original study and noted that 132 food items were tested for two time periods, totaling 264 statistical tests.

With this many tests, it is quite likely that some apparent statistical significance will occur simply by chance.

At the standard significance level of 5% (that is, there is 5% chance that the data will show an effect even when there is none), the 264 tests will yield approximately 13 false positives unless the analysis is adjusted to account for multiple testing. Young, Bang & Oktay argue that this is precisely what happened.

"This paper comes across as well-intended, but it is hard to believe that women can increase the likelihood of having a baby boy instead of a baby girl by eating more bananas, cereal or salt. Nominal statistical significance, unadjusted for multiple testing, is often used to lend plausibility to a research finding; with an arguably implausible result, it is essential that multiple testing be taken into account with transparent methods for claims to have any level of credibility," note Young, Bang & Oktay.

Journal references:

1. S. Stanley Young et al. Cereal-Induced Gender Selection? Most Likely a Multiple Testing False Positive. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, January 14, 2009
2. Mathews, Johnson and Neil. You are What your Mother Eats. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, April 22, 2008

Adapted from materials provided by National Institute of Statistical Sciences, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.

Source: Science Daily

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090114172306.htm

ScienceDaily (Jan. 14, 2009) - Thirty years ago last summer, the world's first "test-tube" baby was born, and since then more than 1 million infants have been successfully conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), the technique in which a woman's eggs and man's sperm are fertilized in a laboratory and then implanted in the mother's womb.

When deciding whether or not to pursue IVF treatment, the obvious question of most patients is, "What is the chance that this therapy will result in a baby?" They now have an answer.

In the largest study of IVF patients to date, researchers at Boston IVF and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) followed more than 6,000 women through six IVF cycles. Their findings, described in the January 15 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) demonstrate that the chances of a successful live birth following IVF therapy range between 65 and 86 percent in younger women and between 23 and 42 percent in women aged 40 and older.

"This shows that, overall, IVF is extraordinarily effective and largely overcomes infertility, especially in younger women," explains lead author Beth Malizia, MD, a clinical fellow at Boston IVF and in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at BIDMC.

Infertility affects more than 6 million women in the U.S. between ages 15 and 44, according to figures from the National Center for Health Statistics. The authors embarked on the study in order to provide doctors and their patients with accurate, evidence-based estimates of the likelihood that a pregnancy resulting from IVF would result in a live birth.

"Traditionally, IVF has been reported as pregnancies per IVF cycle," explains Malizia. "These calculations can not only be difficult to comprehend, but can also be misleading since they don't take into account the difference in success between the first-time patient and the patient who did not become pregnant in previous IVF attempts. Our goal in conducting this study was to provide information that would answer the patient's primary question - What is the chance that I will walk away with a baby?"

Each IVF cycle consists of four steps: First, the patient takes a course of fertility medication to encourage egg development. Eggs are then retrieved through a minor surgical procedure. The retrieved eggs are then fertilized in the laboratory and approximately three to six days following egg retrieval, fertilized embryos are implanted in the woman's uterus.

Malizia, together with senior author Alan Penzias, MD, a reproductive endocrinologist at Boston IVF and BIDMC and coauthor Michele Hacker, ScD, MSPH, followed 6,000 couples undergoing IVF therapy between 2000 and 2005. Using a longitudinal analysis method - which makes use of repeated observations of the study group over time and provides a more accurate estimate of a woman's history over multiple IVF cycles - they calculated the cumulative live birth rate of their population. All IVF patients were included without excluding for age, ovarian reserve or other prognostic factors. And, explains Malizia, because the success of embryo cryopreservation has nearly doubled over the past decade, frozen embryo cycles were also included in the analysis.

To account for patients who did not return for further IVF treatment, the authors reported the cumulative live birth rate as both optimistic (best-case) and conservative (worst-case) estimates. They also reported multiple live births (twins, triplets, etc.), which says Malizia, is another important issue when counseling patients prior to IVF treatment.

"Our results showed that among 6,164 patients who underwent 14,248 cycles of IVF, the overall cumulative live birth rate after six cycles was 72 percent with the optimistic analysis and 51 percent with the conservative analysis," notes Malizia, adding that the chance of a live birth for women under the age of 35 was between 65 and 86 percent, while the figures were between 23 and 42 percent for women over age 40. And, she notes, of the 3,126 live births, the majority were "singletons" while 27 percent were twin births and 2 percent were triplet births. There were no multiple births beyond triplets, a finding consistent with a national decline in multiple births [greater than twins] resulting from IVF treatment over the past decade.

"IVF treatment has come of age," notes the study's senior author Alan Penzias. "Although we continue to address the challenge of age-dependent decline in fertility, with these successful results, we have shown that fertility can be restored to the majority of young women who want to have a baby."

Adapted from materials provided by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.