UK Midwifery Shortage: Rising Caesarians, Declining Breastfeeding

If you have experienced prenatal care, birth, and postpartum care from a midwife, you know the importance of this one-to-one relationship. The experience with a midwife is beautiful. It is about love and compassion. What more could you want or expect when bringing a baby into … [Read more...]

Required Vaccine Schedule: 1983 vs. 2010

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5 Green Products: Vicki’s Vegan Kitchen, Tagg Pet Tracker, The Stick Book, Snap Infusion Super Candy, Munchkin Cups

1. Vicki's Vegan Kitchen: Eating With Sanity, Compassion & Taste For the record, we are not a vegan family, and only the females are vegetarian in our family. They boys eat organic meat. I have been a vegan, but my pregnant body demanded more, so dairy reentered … [Read more...]

Plastic Munchkin Toddler Cups: BPA-Free But I Think Glass is Still Best

I admit, when I used toddler cups with my kids, I did use plastic at times. Granted that was over five years ago and there weren't many glass options. I did rely heavily on the [amazon_link id="B0010XEMRI" target="_blank" ]Klean Kanteen sippy cup[/amazon_link]. I do … [Read more...]

Is There Arsenic in My Baby Formula?

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Last week’s findings of arsenic in organic brown rice syrup may be even more frightening to parents than last year’s discovery of the cancer-causing substance in apple juice. … [Read more...]