In Loudoun County prenatal classes are offered from the moment of conception. You can enroll in prenatal yoga or pilates at The Birthing Inn, Ida Lee Park Recreational Center in Leesburg, or your local gym. Or if circuit training is more your game, you can sign up for Mommy Bootcamp held at the Dulles Sportsplex. There are myriad courses offered for pregnant mothers. It begins at conception and continues well past the toddler years. In some classes, babies are required, and others, they are optional. Below are some reviews of programs and resources available to attain the fit pregnancy and post pregnancy needs of Loudoun County modern moms.

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Choosing a cosmetic surgeon for laser treatment is a major decision.

The idea of refreshing the tired skin and face, recapturing the fresh look prior to child bearing years, is more than appealing and easier than it has ever been. There are non-invasive or minimuminvasive procedures that can be performed in office with little or no down time. Laser is a common tool to do just that and it has been helping doctors to safely and effectively treat patients for more than 30 years.

How to pick up of a few more of those memorable pigmented sun spots

In college, I vowed to forego anti-aging procedures and products, to accept maturity with dignity and grace. Then, I was fresh faced and youthful, now, I bear forehead creases, laugh lines, and pigmented age spots.

The countdown is on…seventeen months until that chant I have been singing for siblings and friends finally becomes my reality; “Lordy, lordy, look who’s 40.” As a person who has spent a lot of my time around younger people, as a lifeguard in my late teens and early 20’s; as a religious education teacher while I was in college; as a high school teacher; and now as a mom, I have always been celebrating the age of those who are younger than I. To come up with a way to celebrate my own age forces me to think like a 38 year old.

Blame it on the sun, smoking, or even your grandparents, but odds are that many of us will eventually experience premature signs of aging, loss of facial fullness, sagging skin, and wrinkles. Fortunately, for every woman, there are innovative cosmetic procedures to delay the aging process. Cosmetic procedures, that were once considered a luxury, are now readily available and more affordable to all aesthetically-minded women of Loudoun. As a superior non-surgical procedure, “next generation fillers” harmonize facial features by softening facial lines, restoring volume, and enhancing your natural beauty. You do not need to be a Hollywood celebrity or a socialite to enjoy the benefits of line fillers. They are readily available and are becoming more affordable.

“Most of us think aging happens like this: We go on our way, living happily through life, until one day we start to feel old, and the symptoms domino right before our cataract-clouded eyes.”

No matter how much my fingers insist on writing 2007, it is 2008. Another year has passed, memories were made, babies were born, lives were changed, marriages started and some ended, while things changed, some things consistently stay the same...we get older. Our time clock clicks away while we try to play catch up and before we know it, the clock is winning the race. That is what I thought until I picked up a copy of YOU: Staying Young -- The Owner’s Manual for Extending Your Warranty, authors Michael Roizen, MD, and Mehmet Oz, MD, offer the promise of extended youthfulness and increased vigor, no matter how many candles light up your birthday cake and I like that.

I  always wanted to know what happens when you get a tummy tuck and than get pregnant. I also wondered what happens when you get a boob lift, do you also need the implant? Or is that enough?  What about Botox, do your wrinkles get worse after using it, or better?  Here is another one: what happens when you take fat from your tush and inject it into the smile lines you inherited from your mom, betrayal or revenge? What is worse a droopy derrière or saggy tatas, and which one is harder to fix? At what point to do you say, I did my best with exercise, dieted.... hello lipo? You get my point....