Another great WebMD article that makes you think some things over: Safety of Antibacterial Soap Debated

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The following site has been recommended by a parent of a child with dyslexia: Diane Craft

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Study Shows Genetics May Play Role in Children’s Food Preferences

Parents of picky eaters, take heart: It is not your cooking. A new study of twins shows that children who turn up their noses at certain foods may simply be “programmed” to do so.

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Can you believe that the child can get out of the water, and die from drowning hours later?! Yet, this is entirely possible. 4000 people die from dry drowning each year, 1400 whom are kids. What IS dry drowning?

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Good eating habits has never come easily in my family.  Our only meal together as a family is breakfast.  After breastfeeding for as long as we could one of our struggles was to get veggies into our son’s growing little body.   Here are a few tricks that worked for our very finicky eater.

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Being pregnant, or breastfeeding, AND in pain, the most difficult part is choosing what medicine you can take, and which one can be dangerous for the developing baby. Avoiding drugs and going through pain? I don’t know what’s worse. Don’t you just wish that most drugs contained a little more information on the label then just “consult a physician?” It seems that there will be a change for the better in that:

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I was searching for the recomendations on the multivitamin intake and stumbled across this article. I'd love to know your opionions or just more information. Please comment below or at our forum!

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All drugs containing PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE are being recalled.  STOP TAKING anything containing this ingredient. It has been linked to increased hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding in brain ) among women ages 18-49 in the three days after starting use of medication. Problems were not found in men, but the FDA
recommended that everyone ( even children ) seek alternative medicine.

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I think this book contains everything: a list of food groups for a baby and for a toddler; nutritional information of different foods – vegetables, grains, etc.; lots of wonderful, healthy and easy recipes for babies and toddlers – mashed, solid foods, main entres and sancks; entire diet plan; recipes for home made cleaners, bubbles, diper cream, etc.; information on when and what to add to babies diet + information on how to prepare it; information on how to store different foods and how to save time freezing it, how to prepare it for freezing, how to prepare it for eating it again… I love that book and it is the most highly recomended resource that I've seen. I keep using it as a guideline and as a source of recipes up to this day.

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