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Some Moms Turned On By 'Choreplay,' Poll Shows

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 31, 2008

Had any good choreplay lately?

In a new Parenting.com sex poll, 45 percent of moms said foreplay is their biggest turn-on. No surprise there. But 15 percent said they're most turned on by "choreplay," i.e., Dad helping with the dishes, laundry, etc.

"It's a great thing when someone else does the chores," says Parenting magazine senior editor Sarah Smith, who oversaw the "Sex After Kids" survey of 1,300 moms.

"But when it comes down to it, it's foreplay. It's in the bedroom. You're still a woman — and a wife, and a friend, and a mom and all those other things — but you don't become a different person."

Other survey results, which also appear in the February issue of Parenting magazine:

78 percent say sex was better before they had kids, but 22 percent thought sex got better after having a child.

43 percent say sex was best before they got married.

49 percent say exhaustion is the biggest mood killer.

78 percent say they felt sexy before having a child, but only 38 percent still do.

61 percent say they'd like to have sex "at least a few times a week," while 45 percent say they actually do.

"Moms do want to have sex," says Smith. "The trick is figuring out how to make that happen. Kids sleep. They watch videos. You can send them out with a babysitter and stay home together.

"Half of our readers said exhaustion spoils the mood," she continued. "But sex is a little like exercising, where once you get started you feel a little less tired. Maybe you should get started."

Chicago Tribune

Drive-Through Pharmacies Include Risks

Consumers who pick up prescription medications at a pharmacy drive-through window might jeopardize safety in the name of convenience.

A new study indicates that pharmacists who work at locations with drive-through windows think the extra distractions associated with window service contribute to processing delays, reduced efficiency and even dispensing errors.

Surveyed pharmacists reported the design and layout of their workplace has an impact on dispensing accuracy, especially the presence of drive-through window pick-up services. Results also indicate that automated dispensing systems in pharmacies are likely to reduce the potential for errors and enhance efficiency.

The study offers a caution to consumers: check your prescription medications, especially those obtained from a pharmacy's drive-through window, says Sheryl Szeinbach, the study's lead author and a professor of pharmacy practice and administration at Ohio State University.

"Maybe we ought to stop and consider: 'Am I likely to get the same level of service from the drive-through as I am actually interacting face-to-face with a health care professional?'" Szeinbach says.

The number of prescriptions dispensed annually in the United States today nears the 4 billion mark. Even with stringent internal quality controls, pharmacists nationally make an estimated 5.7 errors per 10,000 prescriptions processed, which translates to more than 2.2 million dispensing errors each year.

Responding pharmacists attributed about 80 percent of dispensing errors to cognitive problems that Szeinbach said could be associated with various disruptions that interfere with their work.

Newswise

Mom's Weight At Conception Affects Offspring

Pregnant women who are overweight or obese are more likely to give birth to heavier babies, and the risk of overweight children becoming obese adults is nearly nine times greater than for children who are not overweight.

Researchers at the USDA-Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center recently examined whether the subtle effects of a mother's obesity can lead to a viscous cycle of excessive weight gain and body fat that passes from mother to child.

"The mother's body composition at conception has important implications for the metabolism and risk of obesity in the offspring in later years," says Kartik Shankar of the Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center.

Other studies have shown that greater body weight at birth and weight gain early in life increases the risk of becoming overweight or obese as an adult. Studies show that a child's body mass index correlates more closely with its mother's BMI than its father's, suggesting an interaction of genetic and intrauterine influences may contribute to later-life obesity risk.

The Arkansas researchers developed an overfeeding model that was used in lean and obese female rats. The model allowed the investigators to replicate many of the metabolic and hormonal features of overweight humans. Offspring born to lean or obese rats were raised by surrogates who were fed regular rodent diets to ascertain whether the pups' obesity exposure was limited only during gestation.

They found the following:

At birth, the weight of the offspring from both lean and obese rats was similar.

The calories the pups consumed at the 60- and 120-day mark suggested both groups consumed the same amount of calories, indicating no effect of maternal obesity on offspring's food intake.

When both lean and obese offspring were fed a high-fat diet, the obese offspring gained remarkably more weight, suggesting that exposure to maternal obesity led to programming of increased susceptibility to obesity in the offspring.

When both groups were fed a control diet, obese offspring had a greater fat ratio compared to their lean offspring counterparts. Further, obese offspring fed a high-fat diet had a 26 percent greater percent fat ratio and a 60 percent increase in subcutaneous fat mass versus lean offspring.

These findings add to the existing body of evidence showing that both maternal obesity and genetic background influence offspring's susceptibility to obesity.

The results also demonstrate that high levels of body fat occur in the offspring of obese mothers despite consuming similar calories as their lean offspring counterparts.

Newswise

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