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Common Winter Allergies

The common cold often strikes in winter. Before you reach for the cold medicine, you might want to consider whether your runny nose, scratchy throat and watery eyes might be symptoms of winter allergies. While spring and fall months often bring an increase in allergy symptoms for people with pollen allergies, symptoms may be worse during the winter for those with other allergies.

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What Causes a Woman to Go Into Labor?

Unless you are having an elective cesarean section, your body will go through labor to deliver your baby. Labor is a unique experience for each woman, but the process has some shared similarities. What causes you to go into labor can depend on your body, your baby and your doctor’s treatment.

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Hug The Elephant – Talking To Your Kids About Race and Ethnicity

As parents, we set out to give our children the best possible chance at success through feeding them well, raising them in clean and healthy environments, teaching them valuable lessons, and making sure they strive for excellence in school and extracurriculars. Even with the best of intentions, there are still many hurdles to parenting that…

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Why Don’t Men Have “Boys’ Night”?

Weve recently noticed that while women make it a priority to get together every so often for wine and pedicures and a major chat-fest, the men don’t. Perhaps its simply that guys feel it would ruin their rugged reputation if they called the gents together for Spa Night, but were pretty sure thats not the only reason.