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Today's news: Good Samaritan donuts, Mem Fox, and pregnancy weight
By 9Honey| 1 year ago
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We'll be there every Monday to Friday at 3.10pm to chat with you about all the articles that are buzzing on 9Honey - and here's what we're talking about today:
Town's heart-warming reason for buying out doughnut shop each morning
For the last two weeks, customers have been lining up at the crack of dawn to purchase doughnuts from a small, family-run bakery in Seal Beach, California. While locals say Donut City's baked goods are delicious, there's a far sweeter reason for the early-morning crowds gathering at the doors.
Children's author Mem Fox reveals the surprising reason she thinks parents should read to their kids
Mem Fox has been a best-selling children's author for over 15 years.
But the Melbourne-born writer, perhaps best known for the title 'Possum Magic', admits to Honey Mums she wasn't always convinced reading to babies was necessary.
"It wasn't an obvious thing that I should read to my baby," the now 72-year-old tells Deb Knight in this week's podcast.
Experts' push for pregnant women to be weighed is 'misguided', Nine journalist Alissa Warren says
Three peanut butter sandwiches, a piece of fairy bread and a can of Coke.
This was my daily pregnancy diet. In my fourth and last pregnancy I probably put on 15kg.
One day I ate an entire LOAF OF BREAD. A loaf. A girlfriend also told me she once ate a loaf of bread, too … after she ate a whole packet of Mint Slice biscuits.
Pregnancy is a blessing but it wasn't easy. The sickness was endless, my appetite warped and the days were exhausting. My fuel was sugar and carbs. There was no other way. I knew I was eating all the wrong stuff. I knew I was putting on weight. But I also knew it wasn't forever and in my exhausted, big-bellied, head-in-toilet state I was relieved no one said anything to me about it.