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SHOULDER ROLLS

Ninety-eight percent of everything you do is in front of your body. That is tragic for the human spine. We tend to slump at desks, in chairs and in motorcars, and we never correct this situation. So every half hour, do six or eight backwards shoulder rolls. Stretch those muscles and ligaments, flex that spine. It's good for you and absolutely essential to relieve spasm, tension and avoid neck and back pain.

SNACKS

It's what you have with the coffee that's often the problem. We go back to old Europe, a little [macciati] and a little sweetie as big as two thumbnails. Nowadays, you go into the latte shop and say "one cappuccino, please, skinny" and you have a blueberry muffin with it, and the blueberry muffin is as big as a football. I mean, you're kidding. Most of them are full of fat and sugar. So what do you have with your coffee? Go easy on your muffins, croissants, your donuts, and don't forget in a cup of black coffee, there's one calorie. In a cappuccino, there's fifty or sixty calories. In a latte, there's ninety calories, because there's less froth. So in the old days, you'd have a black coffee, or put a dribble of milk in it, which takes it up to a massive fourteen or fifteen calories. Not ninety. So if you're having lots of lattes, remember that even one latte a day can make a difference of over three kilograms over a year. So, careful.

WOULD YOU WALK ACROSS A FREEWAY WITH A BLINDFOLD ON??

Probably not!

Why? Because your risk of being hit or killed, or at best, be severely injured, would rise dramatically.

So if you knew that the chances of your baby dying were up to 3 times higher, would you choose to plan for a 'home birth' rather than a hospital birth, where all the medical back-up is right there on the spot?

No, not unless you are foolish and deny that up to half of all first time mothers attempting a home birth have to be transferred to hospital due to complications!!

That dash to hospital may be the difference between life and death for your baby - or you.

Danni, ever heard of common sense?

It seems that plenty of people have the opposite opinion and if you are on that side of the fence, you are arguing against a strong set of numbers. The latest studies from the USA and Europe which involved a total of over 549,000 mothers (that's over half a million!) showed that planned home births have almost three times the risk of neonatal deaths as do hospital births.

And by the way, 'natural' low intervention births can be achieved in birthing centres attached to some hospitals.

Money can buy many things but it can't buy common sense, and common sense seems to be becoming more uncommon these days... (like some people still actually smoke cigarettes even though each cigarette has over 200 lethal chemicals in it! - hello?) if I gave you a bottle of liquid with 200 poisons in it, would you drink it?

Anyway, like most things in life, it's your call ... the risky way or the safer way ... your call.