Health Risks For Older Women and Pregnancy

More and more women have having babies later in life when they have their lives and financial situations in order. Heath risks increase anyway for older women and pregnancy sometimes aggravates or brings on additional medical conditions. However, older women are more aware of the need for folic acid during pregnancy, as well as the need of maintaining a healthy diet and getting lots of exercise than younger women usually are. They also have higher rates of choosing to breastfeed, rather than bottle feed their infants than younger mothers do.

It is important for older women to be in good heath before they become pregnant. Pregnancies after age 35 have a greater chance of ending in miscarriages and for having babies that have problems at birth. This is why doctors tend to pay a lot of attention to ensuring mothers over this age are healthy, often scheduling appointments closer together so that they can monitor the health of both the mother and the baby. Since mothers at this age have much more life experience, the likelihood of alcohol consumption is increased, which also increases the possibility of the baby being born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

Diabetes, heart disease and arthritis may have started to manifest themselves in older women before they become pregnant, but not enough that it interferes with their daily lives. However, pregnancy at this age does compound the symptoms of these medical conditions, endangering both the mother and the baby. High blood pressure is quite common during pregnancies for older women and this condition may not go away when the baby is born. A women who does have a stressful job can also develop complications in the pregnancy at any age, but it is more likely as they get older.

The risks to the baby when the expectant mother is older do not happen to everyone. Some women sail through the nine months without a hitch and may even think that the doctor is being overly cautious. However, there are so many risks involved that doctors usually do generalize in this area and want to make sure that nothing happens to the mother or baby that could have been avoided. Some of the common problems that do occur in women that get pregnant after the age of 35 include:

- Ectopic pregnancy ?The fetus develops in the tube instead of the womb and this results in miscarriage. This usually requires surgery to remove the damaged Fallopian tube.

- Chromosomal abnormalities ?One example of this is a baby born with Down's Syndrome

- Multiple births ?this is true if the mother has been trying to get pregnant for a while and takes fertility drugs

- Complications during delivery

Older women who become pregnant usually have more screening and tests than a younger woman. These screenings help to determine if a certain medical condition exists in either the mother or the baby.

When women get pregnant later in life, they often have a more difficult time adjusting to the fact that they are pregnant, especially if it is unplanned. They are thrilled at the prospect of having a baby, yet they know that the freedom they have enjoyed for so long will be curtailed. This often causes them to be more emotional than usual.

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The World Of Warcraft - A Time Sink

By timesink, I mean hours spent in front of the computer. Not just hours, in fact, but days. The World of Warcraft is the most popular MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, whew!) in the history of online gaming - and here's why, it's incredibly addictive. I played Everquest for 3 or 4 years before WoW was released, with a gaming hiatus in-between. Everquest ate up much of my social life as a teenager, relegating me to my bedroom for hours after school (and sometimes during school). Because I was older when I started playing WoW, I had the sense to manage my time a little better - but I still spent too much time playing that damn game!

After almost 3 years in the World of Warcraft, with it's cartoon-like character models, large-scale guild gatherings (demanding 40 or more people to work in cohesion to complete an objective, which ultimately was the biggest timesink) and never-ending character development (in other words, wasting 8 hours trying to get some kind of item), my interest in the game slowly subsided. I dropped it completely for a while, only to pick it back up for another stint and, as it seems now, drop it again - for good this time. In total, I spent approximately 150 days playing World of Warcraft. That's full days, one day being 24 hours, or 3600 hours in total. Granted this was over a 3-year period, but that doesn't change the fact that this game ate about 3.5 entire months of my young life.

Now that you know the potential this game has for turning a normal, sociable individual into a complete recluse, let me highlight one of the (possibly the only) positive aspects of the World of Warcraft. The game forces the players to make friends. Of course, you're not playing face-to-face with the people you meet online (unless you could somehow get the 10s of millions of people playing this game together in a large stadium - or small country) but it does promote a sense of unity and loyalty with other gamers you see regularly within the game. Friendships established through online gaming can potentially extend beyond the life of the game, as was the case with my old Everquest guild. Although, I ended up losing contact with them. Otherwise, the only benefit is that you don't need a top-of-the-line monster gaming machine to run WoW. The graphics are designed to display smoothly on lower-end PCs.

Now for the bad. My list of negatives associated with MMO gaming is a lot longer than the positives. The major negative, as I explained above, is the amount of time the average gamer spends online. My 3600 hour marathon isn't uncommon for a lot of people. With millions of gamers playing WoW, that's a lot of wasted time! The anonymity of playing a game online, where everyone is faceless and the consequences of treating other gamers poorly are almost non-existent, makes some people do or say things they probably wouldn't in real life. Some games, this one in-particular, have policies punishing players who make derogatory and insulting comments toward other gamers, but unless the offense is particularly nasty (racist or sexual) there's usually no repercussion.

Sometimes online, the lines of what's right and wrong are blurred. Due to the amount of time gamers spend in the virtual world, they tend to take the game too seriously. In Everquest, where there were two factions which were able to attack and kill each other, the good side were referred to by the players as Lighties, while the other (evil) side were known as Darkies. To me, that seemed to have a racist slant. Trash-talking was common in Everquest. One thing I liked about WoW - members of opposing factions couldn't speak to one another (which I'm sure prevented a lot of problems).

That's the World of Warcraft explained from the perspective of an ex-addict. I mainly discussed my issues with the game (and that pretty much applies to the whole genre). If you want to know more about the mechanics of the game, I suggest you visit the Word of Warcraft website. There are more games to be released in the near future that I may decide to check out but due to my experiences with WoW (and Everquest), I will always be more in-control of my digital addiction in the future. I had to learn how to delegate my time the hard way. The 10s of millions of current WoW subscribers will need to learn the same lesson eventually as well!

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Content

We all know that having content is key. The content must be targeted around your keyword. Write an article between 300 and 400 words much like if you submitting it to a regular article directory. Apply the same standards that the directory would adhere to. Its very easy to write a sales pitch and post it up on your blog. But is this what you want to see if your searching for a particular item? A sales pitch? No you want answers or tips or reviews..information! Not a sales pitch.

OK so we have content. Here are a couple of things that my help SEO your Post.

1. Ensure the keyword your targeting is in the Title of your post.

2. (kinda of a recap) But re-read your article and make sure you have keyword density.

3. Make sure you have only one link back to your domain. Too many might seem spammy.

4. Add your post to a category based on the keyword or phrase.

5. Add meta tags to your post.

6. Add the keyword into the url of your post

Backlinks

Wikipedia -Backlinks (or back-links (UK)) are incoming links to a website or web page. In the search engine optimization (SEO) world, the number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (though other measures, such as PageRank, are likely to be more important). Outside of SEO, the backlinks of a webpage may be of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page.

There are several ways to generate backlinks.

1. Article Marketing.

Now that you have an article posted to your blog. Take that same article and submit it to several of the higher page ranked article directories ie ezinearticles, goarticles etc. Its a fast, effective easy to get backlinks to your blog.

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c. Give a free gift in your resource box to entice people to click your link.

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Another great way of getting backlinks is with comments. Find high page rank blogs related toyour subject. Develop a 'relationship' with that blog by commenting often..once a week or so..but you must leave a relevent comment dont just write.."hey great blog" or "hi". Many blog will give you the ability to place you link in the comment box thus getting you a backlink. A great way of finding these high PR blogs is with various software applications or you can manualy do the search with google.

Social Bookmarking

There are basically a few types of web 2.0 sites that can drive you tons of traffic to your blog, below are different types of sites you can get traffic from.

- Social Bookmark Sites
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- Social Networks

An example of a Social Bookmark Site is Digg.com. Digg.com front page has an Alexa Ranking of 89. Just imagine the the amount of traffic you will get if your post appears in the front page. To know if your post will get in the front page is to determine by the number of
diggs you get from users from Digg.com.

Digg.com is just one of the social sites that are available online. In fact there are over hundreds of social book marking sites online. So, when you compare to how tedious it can be submitting your website individually to other websites, you will come to appreciate the advantages in having your URLs Social Bookmarked by these Social Web 2.0 sites, Great news for you, this can be easily done by using a free online tool at www.OnlyWire.com . It is a web based Internet tool where you sign up for a free account and submit to 18 popular social bookmark sites with the click of a button.

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