Health Round-up: Birth control, hospital dash & more

The Olympics countdown is well and truly on – only 8 days to go! Are you looking forward to it? Are you hoping team GB will walk away with a treasure chest full of gold medals?

If I’m honest, I’m hoping for an uneventful games. Don’t get me wrong, I’m backing our Olympians all the way, I’d just rather not be called upon to take part in the ‘hospital sprint race’. What do you mean that’s not a real Olympic sport? It should be. I’m certain I would win if it was. How do I know? Because I had to rush my three-year-old daughter to A&E earlier this month when she started to have trouble breathing. Yep, it’s no fun having a sick child and having to do a hospital dash.

Renata over at Just Bring the Chocolate has also been getting aquainted with hospitals this month too, although things are not quite as simple for her. Renata’s watchful waiting post talks about settling her son Dominic and herself into Great Ormond Street Hospital to find out what’s causing his abdominal pain. Her writing is really touching and I sincerely hope everything turns out fine.

Elsewhere in the blogging world, there’s been a lot of conversation lately about family planning or rather, the lack of access to it in developing countries. According to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, there are more than 220 million girls and women in developing countries who don’t want to get pregnant but don’t have access to modern contraceptives. This means girls as young as 11 are getting pregnant and being so young and immature, many die. You can read about it on the BritMums blog and Mammasaurus, DorkyMum and Thinly Spread are among the bloggers who have also been helping to shine a light onto this important issue.

Now, can you help Liz over at Me and my shadow? She suspects her daughter might be allergic to cow’s milk and is desperately seeking some advice on cow’s milk allergy. I personally would advise taking a look at the NHS guidelines on food allergy in children and young people. These are guidelines that doctors and other healthcare professionals should be following when diagnosing food allergies.

And because it’s always nice to end on a positive note, it was lovely to read Cafe Bebe‘s PND and Me: A Progress Report, Karin writes about how much better she’s feeling since admitting to having postnatal depression and taking antidepressants. It’s great to hear it.

As ever, please don’t forget to link up any health-related posts you may have. I was a bit saddened to see that at the time of writing this post, no-one had linked up to last month’s round-up. Nope, not one. So come on, do me proud and show me what you’ve got!

About Laura

Laura is an award-nominated PR professional and freelance journalist. She writes the parenting blog, Chez Mummy and is also the editor of Working Parents United, a website to support working mothers and fathers across the UK.