Mother-Baby Sleep Experts Offer Tips for Soothing Crying Babies, Giving Exhausted Mothers Alternatives to Crying It Out. Recent research reports have encouraged mothers to not respond to their babies when they cry. In response to this advice, a panel of noted mother-baby sleep experts from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and Australia have developed a free ...
Baby Led Weaning
Throw out the jars, get rid of the boxes of baby cereals, chuck out the ice cube trays and baby food mills!!!! no more steaming and boiling, mashing and blending, mixing and storing: It's time to sit down to dinner and embrace the art of Baby Led Weaning. ....But you might want to hang onto those ...
Ignoring Insurance For Mom Is Risky Business
(ARA) - In these tough economic times, families may be putting themselves at risk by placing more value on the man of the house. Women are less likely than men to have life insurance, and if they die their families could be thrown into financial chaos. “Underinsuring the female, whether she is a working or stay-at-home ...
Children ‘Should Sleep With Parents Until They’re Five’
Margot Sunderland, director of education at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London, says the practice, known as “co-sleeping”, makes children more likely to grow up as calm, healthy adults. Sunderland, author of 20 books, outlines her advice in The Science of Parenting, to be published later this month. She is so sure of ...
Hidden Messages
Have you ever wondered what your actions say to your children? What does your infant feel when you leave him to Cry it out? How does you baby feel when she is taken off the breast and put on formula? This excellent article by Jan Hunt gives a wonderful insight into how our children feel ...
Adrenal Fatigue
Your adrenal glands are each no bigger than a walnut and weigh less than a grape, yet are responsible for one of the most important functions in your body: managing stress. “The adrenals are known as ‘the glands of stress,’” writes James Wilson in his book Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome. “It is ...
Merck Researcher Admits: Gardasil Guards Against Almost Nothing
On the morning of 2 October 2009, one of us (Joan) joined an audience of mostly health professionals and listened as Dr. Diane Harper, the leading international developer of the HPV vaccines, gave a sales pitch for Gardasil. Gardasil, as you may know, is the new vaccine that is supposed to confer protection against four ...
Dietary Help For Cold Sores
Diet and Nutrition with Herpes. By eating the right kinds of foods and being aware of dietary considerations, you can help to minimize the chances of herpes recurrence.
Portrayals of Childbirth in the media: is it causing women to fear? – page 5
Portrayals of Childbirth in the media: is it causing women to fear? part 2 page 3 page 5 All Pages Page 4 of 4 References Baxley, E., & Gobbo, R. (2004). Shoulder dystocia. American Family Physician, 69(7), 1707-1714. Clement, S. (1998). Television gives a distorted picture of birth as well as death. British Medical Journal, 317, 284. Clement, S. ...
Portrayals of Childbirth in the media: is it causing women to fear? – page 3
Portrayals of Childbirth in the media: is it causing women to fear? part 2 page 3 page 5 All Pages Page 3 of 4 Reality Programming The genre of reality TV has produced programs following pregnancy and labour. They seek to demystify childbirth, and many first-time mothers find it helpful to see inside maternity wards so they ...