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Parenting Tips/Tricks

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Rekindle Your Love - Hire A Date Night Sitter

Parents, we know how tough parenthood can get, and somewhere along the way, you and your significant other lost that spark that was once so strong, so alive, so intense. Yep, the honeymoon phase. The time where you get showered with gifts, flowers, and spontaneous weekend trips – the time where date nights was something simple to schedule.

Now, it’s hard to even get a little time to yourself let alone with each other. Parenthood is a great journey, a priceless one indeed, but don’t forget the partner and companion that is traveling the journey with you. Start to rekindle your love by taking the first step- scheduling a very over-due, much-needed, and well-deserved date night.

Rekindle Your Love: A Solution

Let Trusting Connections Nanny Agency help you find that spark again. Through our Flex Services, parents can be at ease knowing they have a reputable agency that can provide safe, reliable, and trustworthy childcare. As members of our agency, parents can utilize our experienced, knowledgable, fully-screened, and agency-employed nannies and sitters 24/7, 365 days year. So go ahead and schedule a surprise date night next Friday, make reservations at that five-star restaurant you both have been dying to try, or purchase those concert tickets you’ve been looking at all month.

More Than Just A Date Night Sitter

Our date night sitters are not your typical babysitters. Our sitters can offer and create an engaging experience for your children through educational activities that will help them thrive. But wait, what are the kids going to eat? Didn’t get the chance to fold the last load of laundry yet? Our date night sitters can take care of that. Our sitter services range from meal prepping, light housekeeping, tutoring, transportation, and so much more.

Valentine’s Day is next week, and it couldn’t be a better time to relight your love for one another, and it doesn’t have to stop there. Start incorporating date nights into your weekly calendar and prioritize it like it’s the big project presentation you’ve been working on. Take time to sit down, talk and re-connect. Doing this may not only help spice up your love life, but it can also help remind you that the parenthood journey you both are on should be appreciated, respected, and above all – fun.

If you are in need of a sitter, contact Trusting Connections today!

Fair trade, local commerce

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A few months ago we were shocked with the news about the death of a woman cyclist who was run over by a vehicle driven by a driverless car in Tempe, Arizona. Without a doubt we consider this case an example to be analyzed.

High-end technology has allowed for important social achievements for humanity. From the smallest, but no less important, contributions the development of technology in the field of commerce has revolutionized our consumption. Today with a single click we can have access to products from the other side of the world, something that was unconceivable in the past. The interesting thing is that this same click allows us to have access to other basic products that we recently bought from local stores, from our neighbors.

What’s hidden behind the comfort of a click is a huge matter. It means to put aside the construction of strong communities and lets us believe that we have lots more things to buy when in fact the offer is limited to what companies want us to buy putting special sales and unbelievable prices that will make grave implications to producers that have to sale their products at low prices. 

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In another article, Diapers, Amazon and your local economy, environmental educator Charles Swanson made us question the implications of buying arugula at a reduced price online. Distributors go to impossible lengths to offer the best price, but in the end the one paying utility is the producer.

What can we do?

In the face of this situation, what can we do? First of all, be aware of our type of consumption. Is it really necessary to order everything online? Think about it.

It’s not a matter of fashion, local commerce has always existed and adds great value to our local and national economy. Entrepreneurship is part of our national culture, it’s what’s made our economy prosper.

According to a research by American Express OPEN Small Business Saturday Consumer Pulse Study, 93% of Americans believe it’s important to support small businesses that contribute to a community’s economy. This same study refers to the fact that 73% of survey respondents consciously buy in local businesses to prevent them from closing.

Why shop in local businesses?

Local businesses give identity to a community, they build strong relations based on reliability and commitment within networks.

They break with homogeneity. Local commerce comes from the fact that although there’s competition, their product is unique and has value to add to the community. Their products and services are designed to benefit others.

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Also, the money generated from local commerce stays within the community and in turn it generates employment for people of the same place whose salary is often higher than in the big chains.

An important aspect is sustainability. A product that comes from another part of the world and goes through an convoluted logistic network will generate environmental impacts unlike a product distributed locally.

Local commerce doesn’t set prices so everybody can have equal sales, thus eliminating unfair competition, local commerce buys and sells at a fair price.

Come In, We’re Local

At Sun Sprout we are proud of being a part of the Tucson and Phoenix local commerce network, we are a family business created to offer a useful and environmentally positive service.

We are interested in our community. We are an active part of it and throughout these five years of service we have made great friendships and important allies to strengthen our business.

At Sun Sprout we are a part of the Local First Arizona business network, a citizen initiative that helps create stronger bonds between local businesses which allows us to consolidate the economy of our region. Thanks to Local First Arizona we know that when you make a 100 dollar purchase at a local store at least 43 of those dollars will stay local whereas if you make a purchase at a big chain or nonlocal establishment only 13 dollars will remain circulating inside our economy.

We invite you to learn more about local businesses in your community and take a look at this video Local First Arizona has to offer.

Thanks for being part of our Sun Sprout family.

Your Pelvic Floor and More: The Benefits of Physical Therapy in the Childbearing Years

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Part II:  Postpartum Care

Some people think urinary incontinence is to be expected after having a baby.  Sneeze and pee, right?  Here the doctors at Body Central Physical Therapy discuss why this doesn’t have to be your new “normal” and how physical therapy can help with a plethora of issues after baby arrives:

Why is it important to see a physical therapist after baby is born?

Birthing causes trauma to tissues just like any other injury or surgery.  Many times, after a birth (either vaginal or cesarean), muscles, ligaments, pelvic alignment, and tissues can be irritated or in a state of dysfunction.  Without assistance of pelvic floor therapy, these lingering dysfunctions will continue years after birth.  Leaking urine when jumping or sneezing, while common, is not normal for a postpartum body and it generally means there is an underlying issue with the coordination and/or strength of the pelvic floor muscles.  There are also the potential added challenges of scarring, tissue asymmetry, pelvic alignment, and posturing dysfunctions.  These all can be assessed after birth which allow the new mother to rehabilitate her body in order to strengthen and stabilize the pelvis to reduce long lasting effects or complaints.

What kind of issues do women have after birth with which a physical therapist is trained to help?

Postpartum care can include a myriad of diagnoses.  All can be assessed through physical therapy and properly assigned exercises to improve mobility and function and to relieve pain.

  • Coccydynia is inflammation of the tailbone caused by relaxin’s effect on the pelvic floor muscles or by the baby passing through the birth canal.
  • Diastasis Recti is a fairly common condition of pregnancy and postpartum in which the right and left halves of Rectus Abdominis muscle spread apart which can lead to lower back pain, incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and even painful intercourse.
  • Incontinence (both fecal and urinary), frequent urination, nocturia (excessive voiding at night), and fecal urgency can all be caused by pregnancy and birth, whether vaginal or cesarean.
  • Dyspareunia (painful intercourse) can be caused by hormone imbalance or lingering pelvic floor issues. Cesarean birth and vacuum assisted birth both make this issue it twice as likely to occur.
  • Sciatica and Back, Hip, or Pelvic Pain may linger after birth or be caused by the work of birth.

Dr. Melissa uses physiotape to treat Diastasis Recti.

Exercises are demonstrated in the office and then sent home for continued work on healing Diastasis Recti.

Are there any “must-do’s” for healing from which all women can benefit?

Although there is no “one-size-fits-all” treatment because every woman is different, most women can benefit from transverse abdominus strengthening along with pelvic floor conditioning.   Gentle stretching to relieve achiness caused by breastfeeding, holding a new baby, or lugging around a carseat is beneficial.  Resting whenever possible and using relaxation techniques are wonderful for tuning back in with yourself and your body, which is often lost when constantly caring for a newborn.  Call Body Central Physical Therapy today and let them “mother the new mother” in this critical fourth trimester.

Many thanks to Doctors Maria, Madeleine, and Sarah for their contributions to this article and Doctor Melissa and Client Jessica for allowing me to tag along and see first hand the wonderful work the team of Pelvic Floor Specialists at Body Central can do!

Visit one of Body Central’s five pelvic floor physical therapists at four locations in Tucson and Oro Valley.

http://www.bodycentralpt.net/

Call 520-345-4002 To Make an Appointment Today!

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