The Makeup Within

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I feel extremely fortunate to say that my labor and delivery felt like a dream. Well, after I got the epidural. We slept some as I dilated overnight. Once the sun started coming up, I told my husband we needed to call our moms so they could be at the hospital for the birth of their grandchild. The plan was to get ready to push come morning.

A professional photographer comes by and asks if we want her to be there for the delivery. I had no idea they did that! The idea of having pictures taken made me realize that, regardless of the photos, I wanted to feel pretty to meet my child for the first time.

All of the makeup we used is natural and non-toxic. There are no dyes or synthetic fragrances. No artificial preservatives or fillers. The Jet Set Multi-Sticks are as healthy as makeup can get.

As the first step of the double cleanse process, apply Purify + Condition Makeup Remover to a clean cotton pad to remove eye makeup, gently wipe eye area. Apply 1 to 2 pumps onto your dry face and neck with gentle, upward circular massage motions. To remove, place a warm, wet washcloth over your face and eye area.

Purify + Condition Makeup Remover is suitable for contact lens wearers as it has been dermatologist and ophthalmologist tested. This formula is a gentle, plant-based oil and will not leave a residue that could cause your eyes to feel blurry.

Oils that are plant-based are excellent for all skin types because they have a molecular structure that is like that of our own natural skin oil (sebum). Because of this, plant oils are readily accepted and absorbed by your skin and therefore an excellent way to deliver hydration and nourishment without clogging pores or causing skin irritation.

\n\tI am considering it this time because the list two times i looked like death in my first pictures. I also will straighten my hair and put it up in a bun so its out of the way. I am planning a water birth so if i do make up it wont be a whole lot.

I'm definitely a glam girl. So hair and make up is a must wherever I go including going into labor! I won't go all out. Probably just foundation and some waterproof mascara, maybe by eyeliner cuz I can imagine I'll be doing some crying lol. My sister is a hair stylist so she'll be doing my hair, definitely something out my face tho. I want to look pretty in my pictures just because the moment is so significant

I will use the basics: mascara and a bit if liner. I never leave my house without at least that, but I think after giving birth I would rather look natural than have raccoon eyes LOL I packed the basics in my hospital bag the last two times and will do the same this time. Gotta have my eyes \\ud83d\\ude09

\n\tI see so many pictures with parents and newborn baby right after delivery where most of them look great! Did you or do you plan on wearing makeup during labor? I don't necessarily mean full-out makeup just foundation mascara maybe eyeliner.. I'm definitely considering it seeing how family and friends show up right after to see you and the new baby.

I also find that lining drawers with pretty paper helps motivate me to stay organized. When I take time to make things pretty, I am more likely to put things back where they belong so that it continues to look nice.

For bathroom drawers, my go-to containers are the Viola Drawer Organizers from The Container Store. And since I love to label, I pulled out my Cricut and quickly cut some silver labels for the bins in my makeup drawer as well as all of my other toiletry drawers.

To remove my makeup, I prefer Ponds Cold Cream and the Biore brand of makeup removal wipes, and I was pleased to find that my Cold Cream bottle and the refillable plastic container that I store the wipes in both fit perfectly in the back corner of the drawer.

Microbes inhabit just about every part of the human body, living on the skin, in the gut, and up the nose. Sometimes they cause sickness, but most of the time, microorganisms live in harmony with their human hosts, providing vital functions essential for human survival. For the first time, a consortium of researchers organized by the National Institutes of Health has mapped the normal microbial makeup of healthy humans, producing numerous insights and even a few surprises.

Researchers found, for example, that nearly everyone routinely carries pathogens, microorganisms known to cause illnesses. In healthy individuals, however, pathogens cause no disease; they simply coexist with their host and the rest of the human microbiome, the collection of all microorganisms living in the human body. Researchers must now figure out why some pathogens turn deadly and under what conditions, likely revising current concepts of how microorganisms cause disease.

In a series of coordinated scientific reports published on June 14, 2012, in Nature and several journals in the Public Library of Science (PLoS), some 200 members of the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Consortium from nearly 80 universities and scientific institutions report on five years of research. HMP has received $153 million since its launch in fiscal year 2007 from the NIH Common Fund, which invests in high-impact, innovative, trans-NIH research. Individual NIH institutes and centers have provided an additional $20 million in co-funding for HMP consortium research.

To define the normal human microbiome, HMP researchers sampled 242 healthy U.S. volunteers (129 male, 113 female), collecting tissues from 15 body sites in men and 18 body sites in women. Researchers collected up to three samples from each volunteer at sites such as the mouth, nose, skin (two behind each ear and each inner elbow), and lower intestine (stool), and three vaginal sites in women; each body site can be inhabited by organisms as different as those in the Amazon Rainforest and the Sahara Desert.

Focusing on this microbial signature allowed HMP researchers to ignore the human genome sequences and analyze only the bacterial DNA. In addition, metagenomic sequencing, or sequencing all of the DNA in a microbial community, allowed the researchers to study the metabolic capabilities encoded in the genes of these microbial communities.

Where doctors had previously isolated only a few hundred bacterial species from the body, HMP researchers now calculate that more than 10,000 microbial species occupy the human ecosystem. Moreover, researchers calculate that they have identified between 81 and 99 percent of all microorganismal genera in healthy adults.

HMP researchers also reported that this plethora of microbes contribute more genes responsible for human survival than humans contribute. Where the human genome carries some 22,000 protein-coding genes, researchers estimate that the human microbiome contributes some 8 million unique protein-coding genes or 360 times more bacterial genes than human genes.

This bacterial genomic contribution is critical for human survival. Genes carried by bacteria in the gastro-intestinal tract, for example, allow humans to digest foods and absorb nutrients that otherwise would be unavailable.

Researchers were surprised to discover that the distribution of microbial metabolic activities matters more than the species of microbes providing them. In the healthy gut, for example, there will always be a population of bacteria needed to help digest fats, but it may not always be the same bacterial species carrying out this job.

Moreover, the components of the human microbiome clearly change over time. When a patient is sick or takes antibiotics, the species that makeup of the microbiome may shift substantially as one bacterial species or another is affected. Eventually, however, the microbiome returns to a state of equilibrium, even if the previous composition of bacterial types does not.

As a part of HMP, NIH funded a number of studies to look for associations of the microbiome with diseases and several PLoS papers include medical results. For example, researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston compared changes in the vaginal microbiome of 24 pregnant women with 60 women who were not pregnant and found that the vaginal microbiome undergoes a dramatic shift in bacterial species in preparation for birth, principally characterized by decreased species diversity. A newborn is a bacterial sponge as it populates its own microbiome after leaving the sterile womb; passage through the birth canal gives the baby its first dose of microbes, so it may not be surprising that the vaginal microbiome evolved to make it a healthy passage.

Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis examined the nasal microbiome of children with unexplained fevers, a common problem in children under 3 years of age. Nasal samples from the feverish children contained up to five-fold more viral DNA than children without fever, and the viral DNA was from a wider range of species. Previous studies show that viruses have ideal temperature ranges in which to reproduce. Fevers are part of the body's defense against pathogenic viruses, so rapid tests for viral load may help children avoid inappropriate treatment with antibiotics that do not kill the viruses but may harm the child's healthy microbiome.

These are among the earliest clinical studies using microbiome data to study its role in specific illnesses. NIH has funded many more medical studies using HMP data and techniques, including the role of the gut microbiome in Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and esophageal cancer; skin microbiome in psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and immunodeficiency; urogenital microbiome in reproductive and sexual history and circumcision; and a number of childhood disorders, including pediatric abdominal pain, intestinal inflammation, and a severe condition in premature infants in which the intestine actually dies.

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