Pregnancy
You gotta love The Daily Mail. After spending the last twenty years telling women that having a career and a family is bad and wrong (how dare we! How very dare we!), they've changed their minds! Now they've decided that the reason women don't get promoted is because they don't have kids. Because childless women are 'cold, odd and somehow emotionally deficient in an almost dangerous way'.
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I had thought it was the stuff of fantasies and Friends reruns - having a baby with a male pal if you were still single at 35.
But writer Katy Regan did just that, as she writes in the Daily Mail:
"We'd had the drunken conversation: 'If I don't meet anyone by 35, will you have a baby with me?' But at 29, I thought I still had time to meet 'the one'. The trouble was, my attempts at dating other men were half-hearted. Louis may not have been Mr Right, but I couldn't quite pull myself away."
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How to...
It is never too late to turn the tide, Lesley Garner wrote in The Telegraph yesterday:
"It doesn't matter how old you are: you are never too young or too old to feel stuck or, far better, to get un-stuck. I have seen teenagers sobbing that their life is a failure and I have seen 90-year-olds begin an exciting new life in a different country.
"Take a few deep breaths and remember a mantra, murmured by a slave in the ear of triumphant Roman generals: "This also will pass." The good things pass, and the bad things, too. The important thing is to keep dancing."
But how do you get unstuck? How do you 'keep dancing'?
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Polls
It's not the first time we've touched on this subject here at Dollymix, but these are tough times, and anything that looks like it might keep the wolf from the door is worth a mention. Egg donations are on the rise, it's being reported, (also here, and here)... One mother of two has made $30,000 just by flogging hers: "It makes it so I'm not working 40 hours a week," said Bush. "It's given me hope that I can actually do the parenting and do the schooling, and still be home and be doing great things and actually watching my kids be raised."
In the US, women can earn $7,000 per donation, and of course it's not that straightfoward - it takes a while, you have to take side-effect inducing fertility drugs - and there are risks. But does it beat working? The optimum age for donating is between 21 and 29 - and of course you might just help a couple who can't conceive. So Dollymixers, what are you waiting for? Would you sell yours?
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Cute stuff
(It's Dollymix-relevant, promise)
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In The News...
Gok Wan's new show attempts to redefine the meaning of 'beauty'. Which might sound ambitious, or possibly missing the point, or something... but is certainly an interesting idea.
And one for those of us still slightly creeped out by the idea of 'human eggs' - a woman writing in in The Times today has had her eggs frozen.
Find out why everyone loves Tina Fey, over on the BBC site.
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Celebrities
There are plenty of reasons to avoid the free papers distributed around the urban metropolis... not least that they're owned by the fearmongering right. Anyway, here are a few things rubbing The F Word the wrong way.
Eating junk while pregnant may increase the risk of miscarriage according to The Sun, and if you're trying for a baby you might want to consider acupuncture too.
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Crafty
Do you, like me, wake up every morning thinking: 'What are the best Mario-style crafty creations?' Fret no more. Our cousins at Crafty Crafty have made this gallery. The 1-up mushroom scarf alone is worth the click.
What happens if you're so desperate for a baby you're not prepared to wait for the right guy to come along first? This.
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Celebrities
Sorry if you're eating cheese strings, but umbilical cord blood is pretty amazing - and a new scheme is being launched to create a bank of the stuff.
What would you look like as Sarah Palin? It's a Flash app waiting to happen.
Which of the Doctor's women would you marry, shag or chuck off a cliff? I never trusted that 'River Song', I have to say.
Not to put a downer on your Thursday, but everyone should read this thing about a study into London brothels, (it's pretty disturbing)...
Meanwhile, "Obama rejects 'lipstick' charge" is, disappointingly, not another story about men wearing make-up.
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