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In short, cement is the powder that you add to your water and aggregates to create a hardened product that is concrete.
So let's hope that you are driving on a concrete pavement and not a cement one, because if that would be the case - you'd be driving on a nice grey powder. #boxing
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If you want to keep 15 cats and live in a town, keep them indoors and off your neighbor's property. As long as you scoop the litterboxes daily all should be fine and no one will ever know how many cats you really have in there.
And yes, I speak from experience. No further details will be disclosed.
Gretchen #boxing
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I would like to go home now. #boxing
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That hotel in Vancouver really needs to add complimentary yogurt to really rock my world. #boxing
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Oh, and we can play a hell of a rugby match too... though I probably shouldn't tempt fate a week and a half before the first autumn international.
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I'm from Texas and we're prone to exaggeration down here and I had to chuckle at this bit because I know I would have said "You could write a freaking novel..." I love that her dad was so precise in his measurement of how many pages could be written. #boxing
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Would you like to save the babies? Then please redirect all funds spent on harassing women/spreading misinformation/threatening abortion providers to prenatal care.
K?
Much Love.
Snark. #boxing
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**I love learning about badass women. It's almost a fixture here on Jez: Meet the fierce lady you weren't aware of a moment ago! #boxing
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sidenote: seriously! I was just in Dublin and wft! with abortion being illegal. crazytown. #boxing
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But that's probably from spending too much time in New York. #boxing
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The only reasons I could think of were work stress and the fact that I'm over 30. I guess with the next pregnancy I'm just going to take it super easy.
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@Lymed: Yes, that's an important point, and I can see that I was overgeneralizing. Not all premature births are the result of inadequate neonatal care; they can happen even with the best of doctors and monitoring. The list of risks also include women having children closer than two years together, which isn't related to income level (although I guess it could be if the women are getting pregnant due to lack of affordable birth control). But I do wonder whether the statistic about African American women is unrelated to class. The article didn't say whether they had investigated whether the higher rate in African American communities had any correlation to income level (At least I don't see that, but maybe I missed it?). I wish I could figure out if they checked whether the rate of premature births among African American women was higher than white women of their same class level, or if the higher rate of premature birth among African Americans is the result of the disproportionate number of African Americans who are below the poverty line. (I know the "African Americans are more likely to be below the poverty line" generalization gets thrown around a lot, but if my college sociology classes drilled anything into me, it's that class and race are interrelated in this country.) Not getting prenatal care can obviously be the result of a lot of things, not just poverty, but pregnant women without health insurance are a lot less likely to get it.
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BTW - mine were early because of HELLP syndrome. It sucked.
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So is this study determining what constitutes premature by looking at things like health and birthweight, or is it just that all babies born before 37 weeks are preemies, even if they're healthy? Is there such thing as a healthy baby born before 37 weeks? Or is it a study of babies who could have used the extra week or five in utero to finish getting pudgy?
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While I can see your point about the cutoff for premature birth potentially being arbitrary, it really isn't. 34-36 weeks is considered "late pre-term," and that accounts for most premature births. Fewer than 31 or 32 weeks means a baby will have serious problems.
There are hallmarks of development for fetuses just like there are for children, and that's where these timelines come in.
Now, the issue I think you're kind of getting at is that it's sometimes hard to pinpoint the conception date, so maybe we're just off by a week and that 36-week "preemie" is really a 38-week full gestation baby or something.
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