Enriching the Soil of Your Life
By Nicole Dawson
We often associate chiropractic as treatment for back pain in adults. Sadly, this is a very limited perspective of what chiropractic offers for children. Many people are now turning to Chiropractic instead of traditional allopathic medicine for their child’s ear infections. Chiropractors attempt to find the root cause of a health problem not just treat the symptoms….
Just a quick, short post for those families and individuals that may not have seen what was called “an urgent recall notice” on Infant Ibuprofen dated Dec. 5, 2018.
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Mom, you do not struggle alone. My story of infertility and late pregnancies at 40 (we lost one twin) and at 42 (we had twins) made me instantly identify with the following story and want to share it here. Thank you, Jeanne Harrison, for giving courage and insight.)
About a year ago, a friend called to tell me about her pregnancy. “That’s wonderful!” I exclaimed. “But . . . are you okay? You sound sad.”…
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It was the early 90s when I learned I was finally going to become a Mom. I instinctively knew I needed to be careful when I was pregnant, especially during the first two trimesters when the brain and major organ systems of the baby develop incredibly fast.
My mom had several acquaintances (from a high publicity case in the 1960’s) whose babies were born without arms or legs because women were taking a drug (Thalidomide) for morning sickness in the 1st or 2nd trimester of pregnancy. I wanted to make sure I did everything I could to protect my health and the health of my baby….
As a 14-year infertility patient, I had a high desire to connect with the 2 babies growing in my belly.
Thanks to that first scheduled ultrasound on day 18 after the GIFT procedure, we learned we had conceived, and we marveled at the flutter of two newly-formed beating hearts in what many call a ‘blob of tissue’.
Long before my baby bump showed off the precious miracle, I prayed for, patted, sang and read to our little twins. But unknown to me at the time, what was happening inside my belly was more even miraculous than I could fathom!
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The digital baby monitor is problematic. Is this news to you? If so, read on. (and at the bottom of the post I found a SAFER one!) Updated Sept., 2016.
As a parent, this information may be very hard for you to hear at first…
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