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Share your pregnancy tip for expecting mothers, and win prizes from Westland Books
Every woman who’s gone through a pregnancy has a secret. Or many. Share yours!
Ranging from “Eat a spoonful of ghee every day” to “Listen to Mozart for expecting mothers”, we’re sure you’ve heard a load of tips for a happy, healthy pregnancy.
But, what did YOU do for a happy and healthy pregnancy?
This month, Women’s Web in association with Westland Books brings you the “Passport To A Healthy Pregnancy” blog contest. The contest runs from 13th October to 24rd October. Read on for more details and don’t forget to put up your entries on time!
Westland Books, our contest partner has an excellent resource for expecting mothers, Passport To A Healthy Pregnancy by noted obstetrician-gynaecologist, Dr. Gita Arjun. India’s first definitive guide for expectant parents, Passport To A Healthy Pregnancy covers topics ranging from pre-conceptional counselling to demystifying pregnancy and explaining away the many myths that surround it to the care of the newborn itself. The book holds rare insights into the physical and emotional needs of both mother and child—with a chapter dedicated to the modern would-be father as well.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
1. Share your “Passport” to a healthy, happy pregnancy, and help other moms-to-be (and win prizes!) Blog about any 1 tip, activity or suggestion that helped you during your pregnancy – physically or emotionally.
2. Make sure you include the contest title in your post (Passport To A Healthy Pregnancy) and also the following code. (Just copy it in the html view of your blog editor). <a href="http://www.womensweb.in/articles/passport-healthy-pregnancy-contest" target="blank" alt="Passport To A Healthy Pregnancy" width="352px"><img src="http://www.womensweb.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/p2hpcontestlogosmall.jpg"></a>
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3. Leave us a comment here so we can make sure we’ve got your entry!
THE PRIZES
The entries will be judged by Dr. Gita Arjun and the Women’s Web team, based on the relevance of your suggestion to expecting mothers, as well as how interestingly your blog post is written.
And now the prizes – it’s raining books from Westland Books, so get started on your entry!
1. The 1st prize: A super-combo of 4 of their best-selling books, Alamelu Vairavan’s culinary guide Chettinad Kitchen, the heartwarming collection Chicken Soup For The Indian Mother’s Soul and Rujuta Diwekar’s Women and the Weight Loss Tamasha, plus of course, the book that started it all, Dr. Gita Arjun’s Passport To A Healthy Pregnancy
2. Two 2nd prize winners each receive a copy of Chicken Soup For The Indian Mother’s Soul and Parul Sharma’s Bringing Up Vasu, a delightful novel on the first year of motherhood.
DEADLINE
Contest open from 13th Oct to 24th Oct 2011. We’ll be tracking entries until 9 p.m. Indian Standard Time on 24th Oct; do make sure you get your entry up in time.
CONTEST RULES
– 1 entry per blogger (Please don’t use multiple blogs to participate – this works on trust.)
– Contest open to readers around the world, but at the moment, we can only send prizes to a valid address in India.
– Blog posts that don’t use the contest title and code will not be eligible for prizes.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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