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Someone else on my flist was diagnosed with PCOS today, and it reminded me of something from the other week.

There are 5 Jewish women in my NCT group. It turns out that 4 of us have PCOS. And it seems like I know quite a few other Jewish women with it. I wonder, is it more prevalent amongst Jews (Ashkenazim anyway) than the general population, or is it a coincidence?

(Google didn't seem to turn anything up--well, there were a couple of hits that did deal with infertility, including PCOS, and phrases like "higher incidence amongst Ashkenazi women" came up, but they were subscription-only journal articles, so I couldn't read the full text.)

(For those who are baffled, Ashkenazim--Jews from Eastern/Central Europe--are from a relatively small gene pool and have a higher rate of some diseases.)

No Leatherhead this year for Neil. Ah well. I'll put it down to the fact that he's barely played in the past 2 months.

Neil has banned KitKats from the house.
1) I am keeping Evil Nestlé (mm, dead babies) in business;
2) He's addicted to them now too ;)

Meanwhile, we're having a little bottle trouble. Aliza was on the SpecialNeeds feeder because we wanted to transition to breastfeeding. These have a variable-rate nipple with a valve, to control the flow, and she was very happy with it. The problem is that Medela only make 150mL bottles (and they're expensive, so you can't have a full set of 6 unless you've got a lot of money). Now that I'm making up 5oz feeds (sorry for mixing up metric and imperial, but I think of formula in ounces because it's 1 scoop of powder to an ounce of water) we've hit the max, and want to transition her to regular bottles.

The newborn nipples she had were too slow, so I went up to the next flow. Still not good. The Avent variflow nipples are only supposed to be from 3 months onward, but I bought a pack anyway (I've paid for the Avent bottles already... not going to play around! Boots do variflow newborn ones but I'm not sure if they'd fit.) She seems to be all right with these, set to a slower flow. I wonder if we've spoilt her with the first bottles? Since she was such a slow feeder, we tended to let her use a fairly fast flow. Still, as long as she's getting the milk at a good rate, not too fast, and isn't colicky, I won't worry too much if she's using a faster flow rate. The alternative would be to frustrate her, and the day we tried the 2 hole ones was NOT a happy one!