Imran Khan – imrank.org

Yes, parenthood changes everything. But parenthood also changes with each baby. Here, some of the ways having a second and third child differs from having your first:

Your Clothes
1st baby: You begin wearing maternity clothes as soon as your OB/GYN confirms your pregnancy.
2nd baby: You wear your regular clothes for as long as possible.
3rd baby: Your maternity clothes are your regular clothes.

The Baby’s Name
1st baby: You pore over baby-name books and practice pronouncing and writing combinations of all your favorites.
2nd baby: Someone has to name their kid after your great-aunt Mavis, right? It might as well be you.
3rd baby: You open a name book, close your eyes, and see where your finger falls. Bimaldo? Perfect!

Preparing for the Birth
1st baby: You practice your breathing religiously.
2nd baby: You don’t bother practicing because you remember that last time, breathing didn’t do a thing.
3rd baby: You ask for an epidural in your 8th month.

The Layette
1st baby: You pre-wash your newborn’s clothes, color-coordinate them, and fold them neatly in the baby’s little bureau.
2nd baby: You check to make sure that the clothes are clean and discard only the ones with the darkest stains.
3rd baby: Boys can wear pink, can’t they?

Worries
1st baby: At the first sign of distress – a whimper, a frown – you pick up the baby.
2nd baby: You pick the baby up when her wails threaten to wake your firstborn.
3rd baby: You teach your 3-year-old how to rewind the mechanical swing.

Activities
1st baby: You take your infant to Baby Gymnastics, Baby Swing, and Baby Story Hour.
2nd baby: You take your infant to Baby Gymnastics.
3rd baby: You take your infant to the supermarket and the dry cleaner.

Going Out
1st baby: The first time you leave your baby with a sitter, you call home 5 times.
2nd baby: Just before you walk out the door, you remember to leave a number where you can be reached.
3rd baby: You leave instructions for the sitter to call only if she sees blood.

At Home
1st baby: You spend a good bit of every day just gazing at the baby.
2nd baby: You spend a bit of every day watching to be sure your older child isn’t squeezing, poking or hitting the baby.
3rd baby: You spend a little bit of every day hiding from the children.

Source: http://www.nanceestar.com/KidsParenthoodChanges.html

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Here are some interesting facts and figures (I think) about Computers and Internet. I hope this will be useful.

Yahoo is shortcut for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”.

1985: Intel introduced the 386 microprocessor.
1989: The 486 microprocessor was introduced.
1992: The 586 Pentium microprocessor was introduced.
1996: The Pentium Pro (X86) was introduced
1997: The Pentium II was introduced.
1999: The Pentium III was introduced.
2001: The Pentium IV was introduced

80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women.

Apple Corporation founded in 1977.

Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

Facebook was originally named TheFaceBook and it was developed by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg.

Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page & Sergey Brin.

Hewlett Packard known as HP was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.

Microsoft Corporation founded in 1975.

Microsoft introduced their first version of Windows in 1985.

MySpace was founded by former Friendster members Chris Dewolfe and Tom Anderson in 2003.

The first computer company to register for a domain name was digital equipment corporation.

The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Expo in San Francisco.

The first domain name ever registered was symbolics.com.

The first electronic mail, or “email”, was sent in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson. It was also his idea to use the @ sign to separate the name of the user from the name of the computer.

The Intel Corporation was formed in 1968.

While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.

Windows was originally named Interface Manager.

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An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open? Next time you feel a sneeze coming try it!

Our eyes are always the same size from birth.

The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.

The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.

An adult has fewer bones than a baby. We start off life with 350 bones, but because bones fuse together during growth, we end up with only 206 as adults.

Your nose is not as sensitive as a dog’s, but it can remember 50,000 different scents.

If you’re cli­pping your fingernails more often than your toenails, that’s only natural. The nails that get the most exposure and are used most frequently grow the fastest. Fingernails grow fastest on the hand that you write with and on the longest fingers. On average, nails grow about one-tenth of an inch each month.

No wonder babies have such a hard time holding up their heads: The human head is one-quarter of our total length at birth but only one-eighth of our total length by the time we reach adulthood.

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A group of owls is called a parliament.

Sharks have no bones. Their skeleton is made of cartilage.

All the Swans in England belong to the Queen.

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It is a matter of record that Canadian porcupines kiss one another on the lips.
 
The world’s longest kiss took place on January 28, 2002. Louisa Almodovar and Rich Langly of New Jersey kissed for a record 30 hours, 59 minutes and 27 seconds on a segment of “Ricki Lake”.

Matrimonial pollsters’ studies prove that a man who kisses his wife good-bye when he leaves for work every morning averages a higher income than does the fellow who doesn’t do that thing.
 
In medieval Italy kisses weren’t taken, or given, lightly. If a man and a woman were seen embracing in public they could be forced to marry!
 
Our brains have special neurons that help us locate each others lips in the dark. (It’s really true too! I am sure you’ve tried this!)
 
It is estimated that the average person will spend about 20,160 minutes kissing in their lifetime.
 
The first kiss ever shown in a movie was in 1896. The movie, was called The Kiss.
 
Hershey’s Kisses got their name because of the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.
 
50% of all people kiss before they turn 14.

Kissing helps reduce tooth decay.
 
Kissing increases the mouth’s production of saliva, and saliva helps clean the mouth thus aides prevention of tooth decay.

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