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Womb for Went? Not anymore

One of the most prolific gestational surrogates ever, Meredith Olafson, just retired her uterus–after 11 surrogate births, including six c-sections. Olafson, a 47-year old nurse in North Dakota who also has four children of her own, carried three singletons, a set of twins, and two sets of triplets for other families. Meredith’s gestational heroics have been outmatched by only one other woman on record. A British woman who gave birth to 12 babies not her own. And there may be a new challenger on the horizon as another surrogate is about to give birth to babies 9 and 10. More on this story here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/super-surrogate-mom-meredith-olafson-retires-uterus-15th/story?id=16126645#.T4yF1atSQi0     Armin Brott Dad of three, best-selling author, speaker, nationally syndicated columnist and radio host, Marine Corps vet, spokesperson, and, generally speaking, a pretty nice guy. Website: http://www.dadsoup.com Twitter: mrdad Tweet #fighting4answrs

Self-Injury and your child

I received a phone call from the respite provider.  Seems our son was frustrated about something that he stole.  So he stabbed himself with a pencil.  Twice. What makes a person self-injure?  How does that feel good? In the coming weeks I will be doing some research about this topic with the hope of shedding some light on this horrendous activity. Related articles What Causes Self-Injury? (bloodsighs.wordpress.com) Tweet #fighting4answrs

Thoughts and Memories – My friend Stan

You can find Stan’s obituary here: http://www.korsmofuneralservice.com/fullobit.cfm?ID=1716 You can find my first post about Stan here. I sent an email out to everyone in Stan’s address book yesterday.  I started getting phone calls and emails this morning from those who knew him.  Here are excerpts of those: Stan was Stan. He didn’t apologize for who he was or his strong belief in God, a topic that he was more than willing to share with anyone. He had many difficult times in his life in the past few years with the deaths of his mother, father and daughter. But Stan’s faith kept him going. He kept his home in Lisbon even after he moved to teach in the western part of North Dakota. We always knew when he came back to Lisbon – our doorbell would ring and with an unexpected visit was Stan (even on Christmas Eve). We would laugh,

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