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Much to the Dismay of the “Skeptics,” Homeopathy Is Boosted in Many Countries Around the World

May 17, 2012 Written by Family , Health

by Amy L. Lansky, PhD For more information about homeopathy, please visit: www.impossiblecure.com. I often write about the tactics of the quackbuster groups around the world and their efforts to smear all medical alternatives, with homeopathy being their favorite target. Luckily, all is not bleak!  There are countries in the world that have benefited so [...]


Posted by: Amy Lansky
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Part Six: Recovery and breastfeeding policy

May 17, 2012 Written by birth stories , Pregnancy and Birth

Recovery Is hospital the best place to recover from giving birth? Once returned to the main maternity ward I failed to sleep at all. All around me was a tremendous din of crying babies. Surely there was something seriously wrong? All the newborns were crying; was it from shock, from separation from their mothers as [...]


Posted by: Caroline Jane Cole
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Practising sustained breastfeeding

Dear Bonnie Fuller; response to Time’ Breastfeeding Mom Is Nuts Like Other Extreme ‘Attachment Parenters’!’ posted 11th May 2012. Part Two

May 17, 2012 Written by Breastfeeding

Practising sustained breastfeeding In response to; Bonnie Fuller; response to Time’ Breastfeeding Mom Is Nuts Like Other Extreme ‘Attachment Parenters’!’ posted 11th May 2012 Dear Bonnie Fuller Here I challenge a few of the myths you espoused in your post. My son is almost two years old. He is breastfed and will be until he [...]


Posted by: Caroline Jane Cole
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Leaving our babies a living planet

May 17, 2012 Written by Minimalist Living , Nature , Simple Living

It was almost eight hours after my son was born that I first had the presence of mind to ask my husband if I could see the certificate that the birth center had made us to celebrate the birth of our son.  The ‘name’ slot was blank still at that point (my husband later filled [...]


Posted by: Keya Chatterjee
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Natural Options for Hyper Kids 

May 16, 2012 Written by Child , Family , Food , Health , Recipes

Thank you to Jane Hersey for this guest post.  Are you anxious about going to a store with your son because of fear he might throw a temper tantrum? Do you wish your daughter could concentrate long enough to do her homework or simple chores around the house? Are you afraid of being called by [...]


Posted by: Melanie Mayo-Laakso | Mothering.com
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Breastfeeding a Three-Year-Old is Normal

May 16, 2012 Written by Beyond Infancy , Breastfeeding , News , News and Activism

From”Breast-feeding a 3-year-old is normal, anthropologist says” –USA Today, May 11th 2012 Some online are calling it “perverted” and “dangerous” to nurse a 3-year-old, but “it’s normal for our species,” says Katherine Dettwyler, a professor of anthropology at the University of Delaware in Newark. “It’s not perverted, it’s not sex, it’s not women doing it [...]


Posted by: Melanie Mayo-Laakso | Mothering.com
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