Take It Easy, Baby - All Comments

re: Sleep, and the Elusive Simultaneous Nap

calixa — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:57:56 GMT

Stories like these never fail to make me smile.

Delivery- The Hare

Take It Easy, Baby — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:25:26 GMT

Jacob Michael 9-25 We arrived at the hospital at 11:35 PM . As Dan came racing back into the delivery

re: What I Have Learned Living Gluten-Free for Two Weeks

Ivanna — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:46:26 GMT

Hi Jill- Sorry to hear about the diagnosis. I recently interviewed a mom whose little was diagnosed with Celiacs and also interviewed the Founder of the Charlotte Chapter of ROCK (Raising our Celiac Kids). You may want to check to see if they have a Chapter near you. Here is the link to the interviews.

empoweredmommies.com/.../NikkiEverettInterview.aspx

empoweredmommies.com/.../SpotlightonEmpoweredMommyNicoleNastali.aspx

Good Luck!

Ivanna

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re: Top 10 Post-Partum Care Tips

ilovemygirls — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:21:05 GMT

Great post!

re: Top 10 Post-Partum Care Tips

bwsf — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:32:40 GMT

SUCH good advice, wish someone had said all of this to me....

re: Vaccines: Get The Facts

ilona — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:35:12 GMT

I understand all the comments that you have posted. I am also a mom, educated and trying to do the best for my child. But as the mother of a non-vaccinated child and as a non-vaccinated person I can't help but wonder if The American Academy of Pediatrics is infallible. I don't think any organization is. Organizations are driven by well deserving professionals with the money of very greedy multimillionaire pharmaceutical companies. I see conflict of interests. I understand the necessity of vaccines for a society as a whole for the well being of the whole but when the solution is part of the problem we must look for other solutions.

Vaccines in public policy were implemented in the 1900 when the hygienic conditions of society were as precarious as in some starved countries in Africa now-a-days. They were also implemented when there was a high level of poverty and hunger in the developed world. They were a good solution for that time. I do not think we are living under the same circumstances, especially not in the developed world, don't you?

Preventive medicine, education, good nutrition, exercise, and alternative remedies have been a staple of my household growing up and now that I head a family. I am 34 years old and as many of you guys I had the flu, mumps, rubella and measles. I did not die of any of this childhood illnesses; neither did my classmates or siblings. Why? Because the living conditions on the develop world in the 70's and 80's were much better that on the early 1900's!

I just feel that the vaccine schedule that our kids are subjected to today is excessive. Some of these big institutions are not whiling to investigate enough. Maybe there is no funding? Of course there would be no gain for pharmaceutical companies.

Maybe it is too scary to challenge the establishment?

I just know that I work in a clinic that treats children who have been diagnosed with Autism and when they recover the same doctors that diagnosed them on the first place say they probably misdiagnosed them. Does this sound fishy? It does to me.

re: Top 10 Post-Partum Care Tips

julie — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:54:29 GMT

how very true!

re: Post-Partum Care - When You Get Past 'Don't Touch Me'

Ivanna — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:39:04 GMT

Great post Jill! Ha! I am with you completely on the "do not touch" front :) I also appreciate your perspective on Mirena given all the controversy around its side effects.

re: Purgatory- After Delivery, Before You Go Home.

Jane Kennedy2 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:36:48 GMT

I totally enjoyed your writing style and hope that one day you will beable to continue into motherhood writing down your thoughts. Your descriptions were quite accurate.

re: One Year Vaccines

BabyBoom — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:16:29 GMT

It's great when they have no reactions. It's what parents want. Good job! Yeah...those rules about prior to a year is pretty standard across the country.

re: Vaccines: Get The Facts (Part 2)

VickyFun4 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:21:26 GMT

Thanks for this perspective. So sorry to hear about your child :(

re: Vaccines: Get The Facts

lydiaw73 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:43:26 GMT

So sorry to hear about your son's condition. I agree with you that we must trust the experts, but at the same time we need to ask questions when we are not sure because it seems like many other industries, healthcare is also big business and about making money. Some doctors (not all) but some do make decisions to avoid litigation and minimize risk rather than truly listening to the patient and that's unfortunate. Can you imagine if news did come out that in some cases vaccines could accelerate the onset of autism in children who are predisposed? Everyone would stop vaccinating!!

re: Vaccines: Get The Facts

BabyBoom — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:46:46 GMT

Agree to a certain extent. We need to be able to be informed patients and ask questions as there are exceptions and kids can get adverse reactions to vaccines. Nodding our heads blindly at the doctor's office should not be an option. It HAS to be an equal partnership. Just because we don't have an MD degree (I have another kind of Masters) does not mean I don't have my instincts and cannot question what I am being told.