Feb 20

At one point, we were all amatures, right? Pictured above is my little boy, born July 16, 2000. At the time, I was a MWAC or shall I say a Mom with a point and shoot? I was obsessed with taking his picture, but didnt become serious from a photography stand-point until 3 years after he was born. He just turned 11 years old this past weekend. Time sure flies!

He was destined to be a fan of motor sports between my and my husbands family. He started riding dirt bikes when he was 3 years old, around the same time I picked up my dSLR. We have grown a lot together and now he is an amature motocross racer.

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Tags: Boy, Boy Dream

Feb 17

One of the basic truths when it comes to babies is that they want to do things their way, and on their own schedule. You struggle with your baby’s sleep patterns, for example. Once you think you’ve got her figured out, she switches things all around. Often, it isn’t so much that your baby has just decided to make a change as it is the fact that there’s something else going on in your baby’s life that is causing this change.

One thing that can create inconsistent sleep for your baby is a change in his eating habits. When you

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Tags: Inconsistent Sleep, Sleep

Feb 09

Fertility experts are making headway in understanding why more than half of all IVF treatments fail – a major source of financial and emotional loss for couples struggling with infertility.

According to infertility researchers from the Center for Human Reproduction (CHR) in New York, failed IVF treatments may be a result of a mother’s immune rejection of the embryo during implantation – similar to that of a rejected organ transplant.

During an IVF procedure (in vitro fertilization) a woman’s egg and a males’ sperm are fertilized together in a laboratory setting to form an embryo. The resulting embryo is then tested for abnormalities or other risk factors that may indicate that it may not create a viable pregnancy. Onc

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Tags: Experts, Experts Say

Jan 22

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Clam and oyster harvesting areas in three Charleston County creeks that were closed last month have been reopened, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control reported today.

“The beds in portions of Secessionville Creek, First Sisters Creek and Folly Creek down to the Folly Road Bridge have been reopened because water quality sampling results indicate bacteria levels are suitable for clam and oyster harvesting,” said Mike Pearson, manager of DHEC’s Shellfish Sanitation program.

For more information on clam and oyster harvesting areas in Charleston County, call DHEC’s Region 7 Environmental Quality Control office at (843) 953-0160. F

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Tags: Areas, Harvesting Areas, Oyster Harvesting, Oyster Harvesting Areas

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