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Pertussis Vaccine Fail: Pregnant Moms May Want To Pass

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Pertussis Vaccine Fail, Nationwide Outbreaks & Shots For Pregnant Moms. A pregnant woman with her hand over her unborn baby hump getting a vaccine shot in her arm.

Pertussis (whooping cough) outbreaks were blamed on the small percentage of the unvaccinated population as recently as 2013.

Today few can deny the fact that fully-vaccinated children are spreading whooping cough as outbreaks continue across the U.S.

Before I begin, I believe in parental freedom of choice whether to vaccinate or not. I hope we can all respect each others choice to decide what is best for our individual children and resist the temptation to judge one another.

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Conversation Between Two Babies In a Mother’s Womb

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Conversation Between Two Babies In the Womb of a Mother, two babies side by side in one sac on the uterus.

In a mother’s womb were two babies.

One asked the other, “Do you believe in life after delivery?”

The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”

“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”

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Visual: Know The Size & Volume Of Your Newborn’s Stomach

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My goal is to increase knowledge and understanding of what is a normal in a newborn so a new Mom who wishes to breastfeed her baby can accomplish that which she has set out to do. It is not my desire that this post cause pain or guilt to those, who for many reasons, find that they cannot nurse such as those on medication or chemotherapy.

This visual is brilliant!

Being a visual learner, I have always done better with a picture! When I saw Katie’s infographic on Facebook (from Babies First Lactation) it was my hope that lots of people (Moms, Dads, and extended family members) could gain understanding from it. The La Leche League also has a valuable visual here.

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Skin-On-Skin (Kangaroo Care) Is Life-Giving For Preemies, Sick & Colicky Babies

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Have you ever heard of Kangaroo Care? I was enthralled by the story of a 27-week premature baby coming back to life after two hours of being lovingly cuddled skin-on-skin. Kate and David Ogg told how doctors gave up on saving their son after a three-hour labor in a Sydney hospital and doctors had pronounced him dead.

Not all prematurely born babies need to be hooked to machines to survive – in fact, they may just do better skin-to-skin on Momma’s chest.

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Amazing Breast Milk Changes Based On Signals From Baby

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Two 25-milliliter samples of human breast milk. The left-hand sample is first milk produced and the right-hand sample is milk produced later during the same pumping. Photo source Wikipedia.

The God-design of the human body never ceases to amaze me, and today, we are talking about human breast milk.  The immunological and nutritional components of breast milk adjust every day, according to the changing, individual needs of a baby.…

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Skin-On-Skin In Reverse: Newborn Brings Mother Back To Life

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File something called ‘skin-on-skin’ away in the back of your mind, will you? One day, you may be glad you did.

Not Just For Babies

Do you remember the story of Kate and David Ogg’s 27-week premature baby coming back to life after two hours of being lovingly cuddled skin-on-skin?

Well, what if skin-on-skin (kangaroo care) could also work in the reverse? It did for a 23-year-old mother who was thought already dead – but then they laid the naked baby on her breast.

What happened next is pretty exciting. It is also a tiny glimpse into God’s specific physiological design between mother and child….

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