Modern Mums Chat Over New Virtual Washing Line

September 21st, 2009 BANGOR, Maine - - Anastasia International Loads Additional Arrow Into Cupid's Bow BANGOR, Maine, September 22 /PRNewswire/ -- As international barriers to romance dissolve thanks to an online garrison of global match makers, technology has advanced to bring loving couples together ever more quickly and intimately. The current messenger of choice for online dating communication is Live Chat, wherein typed messages are exchanged real time between would be friends and lovers.

September 6th, 2009 LONDON - Bounty, the UK's favourite parenting club, today launches a 4 minute 'How to Breastfeed' online video clip to help expectant and new mums take a real life, close up peek at how a baby 'latches on' to the breast when feeding. To view the Multimedia News Release, please click: www.prnewswire.com/mnr/bounty/39761/ Breastfeeding is the healthiest and most natural way to feed a baby, yet research by www.bounty.com has found that mums' intentions to breastfeed before the birth versus the reality when the baby is born are very different: During pregnancy one-in-two mums (49%) said they intended to only breastfeed, but in reality the actual number that solely breastfed dropped by half (to 25%).

August 18th, 2009 LONDON - - comScore Study Reveals that Women Age 25-54 with Children in the Household have High Likelihood of Visiting Several Retail Categories comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study into the online behavior of U.K.

August 3rd, 2009 CANNES, France - The French advertisement website www.marche.fr will be offering its visitors and advertisers the option to chat with each other online, starting on August 1, 2009. This is a world premiere by Marche.fr.

July 19th, 2009 LONDON - - Most Women Admit to Letting Themselves go After Having Children and... - With Photo With so many celebrity mums losing their baby weight and looking glam within weeks of giving birth, there is more pressure than ever on the rest of us to look good after having kids.

June 30th, 2009 LONDON - The current economic climate is not stopping people from having babies, and having a baby is helping modern mothers to cope with the credit crunch says Bounty, the UK's favourite parenting club. Last year, figures showed that the UK birth rate increased by 4% - the biggest annual increase since 1979.

May 14th, 2009 COPENHAGEN - Your parents: they've bathed you, cooked for you, looked after you when you were ill, brushed your hair and raised you. Show them your appreciation by giving them back the gift of their hands to do other things this Mothers/Fathers day with one of Jabra's high quality hands-free Bluetooth devices.

April 30th, 2009 LONDON - A new alcohol-free hand sanitiser, SOAPOPULAR, which has been recently launched in the UK may be the first line of defence against the spread of swine flu claims its Canadian manufacturers. Says Steven Orrett, CEO of SOAPOPULAR inc, based in Toronto, Canada, "the best defense is proper hand hygiene and hand washing - where water is not present or available, using SOAPOPULAR is the best option for not only killing germs that you come in contact with, but stopping the spread of viruses and infectious diseases." SOAPOPULAR differs from most hand sanitisers currently available in the UK as it does not use alcohol as its main active ingredient, making it a safer option especially for children.

March 18th, 2009 BIRMINGHAM, England - Working mums work harder than other employees - with almost two-thirds of companies recruiting mothers over other staff. A new survey of 49 UK businesses reveals 61.4 per cent consider working mums to be better value employees than men or women without children.

March 11th, 2009 LONDON - Bounty Launches Back to Work Help for Mums Research from Bounty (www.bounty.com/), the UK's favourite parenting club has highlighted that mums returning to work require more information and support in negotiating the challenges of childcare and flexible working (www.bounty.com/back-to-work/work-rights/flexible-working.asp). A study of 3,000 working mums showed that a third felt that their employers 'turned against them' on returning to work from maternity leave and almost one in five said they were demoted without warning.

March 16th, 2009 LONDON - British mums do more than 32,000 pounds of household work every year, according to a new survey. Commissioned by insurers Legal and General, the survey showed that household chores like childcare, cleaning, and cooking would cost an average of 32,812 pounds, if families had to pay outsiders to do them.

June 30th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Guilt-ridden working mothers can chill - a new study claims, while breastfed babies are held more and read to more, they sleep 40 minutes a day less and cry five minutes a day more than bottle-fed babies. The Australian Institute of Family Studies research revealed that full-time working mums spend on average 83 minutes less per day with their baby than stay-at-home mums, but the baby's father and grandparents make up for the lost mother time, reports The Daily Telegraph.

March 17th, 2009 LONDON - 'Busy' British parents are finding it difficult to pass on simple recipes, says a new research, which found that three-quarters of mums do not give their children regular cooking lessons. On the behalf of the Potato Council, 2,039 people were interviewed and it was found that one-fifth of mothers said they rarely or never taught their children to cook.

September 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Chinese firefighters recently rescued a three-year-old boy who got stuck inside a washing machine. The boy, a resident of the Tianjin municipality, was trapped inside the washing machine at his home for at least 30 minutes before he was rescued, reports the China Daily.

April 2nd, 2009 LONDON - A Brit woman has designed a special 'shawl' that turns into a baby hammock to protect mums' modesty while breast-feeding in public. Mother-of-one Keira O'Mara, from Birmingham, has developed the Mamascarf, which completely covers the upper half of the body.

April 2nd, 2009 MELBOURNE - Queen of pop Madonna's second adoption from Africa has infuriated Australian mums, who say that it would have taken them six years to do the same. Aussie moms, who have adopted children from Africa, were frustrated that Madge was able to adopt new daughter, Mercy, 4, in Malawi on April 1, just two years after she adopted David Banda.

September 21st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Queensland's mums are presently involved in a fashion war that takes place at school gates. The sides are apparently divided into "slummy mummys" who wear pyjamas and tracksuit pants, and the "yummy mummys" with heavy style quotient wearing designer denim and expensive sunglasses.

March 31st, 2009 LONDON - It's time to bid adieu to those traditional washing machines that required you to make multiple rounds of the bathroom carrying that basket of dirty clothes, thanks to a Wi-Fi washing basket that would do all your laundry on its own. The see-through basket would automatically start when the dirty clothes placed in the basket hit a certain weight.

April 24th, 2009 LONDON - US chat show host Jay Leno has been hospitalised due to food poisioning and had to cancel the recording of his late night chat programme 'The Tonight Show'. Leno was supposed to chat with actor Ryan Reynolds Thursday on his show, but the shoot had to be cancelled after he was taken ill.

July 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Younger siblings' suspicions have been confirmed: Parents, especially mothers, favour their 'precious first borns' (PFBs) over the children they have later, concludes a new study. Among examples of attention lavished on the PFBs, mothers admit to rubbing shampoo into their own eyes to test it doesn't sting, pulling prams backwards for miles to avoid direct sunlight and even sterilising the steriliser, reports The Telegraph.