RC 1*CD 15

I was super excited to find out yesterday that my CM is turning watery!! I didn't think I would get this excited, but just the thought of trying to get pregnant puts butterflys in my belly! Even though I know the odds are aginst us, I still can't help but feel hopeful that it might happen on the first try. My FTMT is still at Low though. :( So now I am thinking I may not O around xmas but maybe the week after! See! What did I tell you, if I try to predict it, just to drive me crazy, it will happen at some other time. Maybe I just get too excited.

The Moms at work were talking about how artificial corloring, especially red and yellow, will cause some kids to go crazy hyper active. I found it very interesting. So I tried to do some research about it online and here is an article I found:

At age four, Tina Kleiber's son Derek began having problems with his
behavior.
“He would become very emotional, cry at the drop of a hat.” At
other times Derek would become very angry even aggressive. Years later, Kleiber
noticed the mood swings in her daughter Brandi as well.
“She would throw
fits- lay on the floor- kick and scream,” Mrs. Kleiber recalls.
After some
research Kleiber figured out her kids' moods changed after eating food with
artificial coloring- specifically red and yellow.
“It's a hard thing,” says
Kleiber, “because you tell anybody about it and they're like, ‘Colors? How in
the world are you allergic to colors?' And I say allergic because it's so much
easier than going down the line of everything it can do to them.”
“[Children] may have hyperactivity; they may act differently; they can have
a rash; they may have problems with vomiting or diarrhea,” explains Dr. Stan
Cohen, a pediatrician with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
Medical experts
say food dyes can affect a small percentage of kids but stop short of
conclusively linking it to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
“It has
not been shown consistently that every child with ADHD has problems with food
dyes, nor that every child that has problems with food dyes has ADHD. But there
is a population of children that has both ADHD and a reaction to food dyes,”
says Dr. Cohen.
He adds that food dyes are regulated by the Food and Drug
Administration and for most kids are perfectly safe. But he points to a larger
issue: the food itself.
“The real problem with these food dyes is that they
make these foods more palatable so that they're more exciting when in fact
there's better food out there that is colored all the time- they're called
carrots and vegetables and fruit.”
As for artificial dyes, Tina Kleiber
removed them from her kids' diet following a program developed by the Feingold
Association- a non-profit organization that helps families concerned about food
additives.
Kleiber noticed an immediate change in her son and daughter.

“Within three days of not having any of those colorings in his system
he was normal,” she says. “You can actually see it happen- you can see when they
change and that feels good. It feels good.” link to this article

Wow! Who would have thought!!

FX that I get a high reading tomorrow!!