Written by Baby Carrier Industry Alliance Over the last year, much misinformation and unwarranted fear has been cast on sling style carriers through announcements by Consumer Reports and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), as well as the recall of the Infantino Slingrider. The Baby Carrier Industry Alliance (BCIA) is aware of research supporting ...
Non-Drug Treatments for Depression in Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women
Written by Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph.D., IBCLC Sarah has had depression on and off throughout most of her adult life. She finally found an antidepressant that worked for her. But now she’s pregnant and she’s been hearing all the awful things about antidepressants during pregnancy. She’s talked with her doctor about it, and he has assured ...
Portrayals of Childbirth in the media: is it causing women to fear?
Written by Tiffany L. Holdsworth-Taylor CD(DONA) Portrayals of Childbirth in the media: is it causing women to fear? part 2 page 3 page 5 All Pages Page 1 of 4 First published in International Doula Magazine, Volume 18, Issue 3 Portrayals of Childbirth in the media: is it causing women to fear? ABSTRACT Health professionals frequently comment that childbirth ...
The Human Incubator
Written by TINA ROSENBERG Sometimes, the best way to progress isn’t to advance — to step up with more money, more technology, more modernity. It’s to retreat. Towards the end of the 1970s, the Mother and Child Institute in Bogota, Colombia, was in deep trouble. The institute was the city’s obstetrical reference hospital, where most of ...
New Beginnings
Written by Helen Read the latest edition of New Beginnings, the La Leche League magazine, online.... Read the entire story >
Safe, Natural Cough and Cold Remedies
Written by Dr. Lawrence Rosen There’s lots of coughing and sneezing going on at the Whole Child Center—and probably every other pediatric office in the world—this month. “ ’Tis the season to be wheezin’ ” we used to lament back in my residency days. I would spend hours in the ER asthma room—yes, a dedicated ...
Why Ditch The Infant Cereals?
Written by Kristen Perhaps one of the biggest and most frightening crimes against young infants by pediatricians, food marketers, and parents everywhere is the recommendation that young infants should be eating rice cereals or other grains. Ages ago, when I had my first child, I enrolled in the government program for Women, Infants and Children (commonly ...
Why Sleep Training is Bad for Babies AND Moms: Breastfeeding Mothers Get More and Better Sleep
Written by Helen n 1998, Dr. Dick Krugman, then Editor-in-Chief of the journal Child Abuse & Neglect, asked me to write a review of new studies coming out on the neuropsychology of trauma, with a particular focus on the long-term impact of childhood abuse. I was happy to do it. It was an exciting time ...
Heal Your Child’s Cavities Naturally
ANCIENT WISDOM FOR YOUR CHILD’S TEETH : HEAL YOUR CHILD’S CAVITIES NATURALLY Are dental treatments and fluoride the only ways to heal your children’s teeth from cavities? No! Is it necessary for the dentist to be the “middle man” between you and healthy teeth? Absolutely not! Using nutrition, Dr. Weston A. Price reduced the rate of tooth ...
