PRE BABY SLUMBER MOMS AND MIGRAINES
Aren't sleepless nights and headaches supposed to be a post-baby problem? Pregnant women should try to get as much pre-baby shut-eye as possible to avoid those big, bad migraines, Norwegian researchers advise in a new study. The medical team from the University of Oslo says it's found a link between sleep deprivation and a need for migraine meds during pregnancy, Babycenter.com reports. Their study of 60,435 pregnant women found that those who got less than five hours of sleep a night were 50 per cent more likely to use migraine-fighting drugs than those who slept for longer. Twenty to 80 per cent of pregnant women get migraines while pregnant, the researchers say, and that's mostly in the first trimester, the most vulnerable time in fetal development. Any excuse to hit the hay sounds good to us, ladies. Take advantage of those silent nights before they're filled with infant wailing.
BOY WONDER
PERFECT ATTENDANCE
"You get out of school and work what you put in, and shouldn't shirk. We are just really proud."
- British father Martin Oley beaming about his son Jonathan's perfect school attendance.
Jonathan Oley, 19, is being celebrated as "the perfect student" after making it through elementary and high school without taking so much as one sick day. That adds up to 2,660 days of school with no break, The Daily Mail reports. Jonathan, who is now head boy at Sale Grammar School near Manchester, even came to class after he broke his wrist snowboarding. Awesomeness must run in the family, Papa Oley crowed, saying his other son, Elliott, 15, has a pretty stellar record, as does Melissa, 17, who has only missed three days so far. Just wait for a bit of rebellious class cutting, pops - who can keep up with such a keener of a big brother?
BY THE NUMBERS
VASECTOMY FOLLOW-UP
50 million
Number of American men who have had vasectomies, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
46
Percentage of these men who don't follow up on said snip, according to a study in December's Journal of Contraception. The study, which looked at 214 men who had undergone vasectomy, found that 99 of them didn't return to the doctor for a semen analysis, which determines whether the operation was a sealed deal. Sure, visits to the doctor are scary. But so are surprises.
BROWN-BAG BRAWL
NO PACKED LUNCH
For every child, there comes a day when his or her parent stops packing lunches. For Jason Matthew Werry, that day (allegedly) came at age 26 - and it wasn't pretty. The Port St. Lucie, Fla., man is charged with aggravated domestic battery and possession of a firearm after an incident just before 11 one recent morning, TCPalm.com reports. Mr. Werry's father Jay told the paper his wife had planned to have lunch with her employer that day, so the son was told he'd have to make his own. This angered the young man. Police say he threw a candleholder at his dad's head, then pointed a gun at him and hit him with the butt of that, too. In self-defence, Jay chomped down on his son's left arm, police say. Both men went to hospital, and Jason on to jail. It's sad to see so much energy wasted over an unmade sandwich.