I had my 3rd son last week via water birth. It was a wonderful experience and I highly recommend it for anyone wanting a natural birth. I hope to be posting again in a week or two.
Archive for May, 2010
22 May
Exercising while pregnant
I’m 39 weeks pregnant today and proud to say that I worked out weekly up until last week! This is my third pregnancy, but the first one where I exercised the entire 9 months. I didn’t really work out at all with my second pregnancy, thanks to 9 months of nausea. But this time, I [...]
19 May
Way to go Chipotle!
Chipotle announced today that it will be serving even more locally grown produce than it has in previous years (in 2008, they committed to 25% of their produce being local; last year, it was 35% and in 2010, it’s 50%). In addition to serving about 5 million pounds of locally grown vegetables this year, Chipotle [...]
17 May
Pesticides linked to ADHD
MSNBC has posted an interesting article, which reports that children with high levels of certain pesticides are more likely to have ADHD. A few quotes from the article: Kids with higher-than-average levels of one pesticide marker were nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD as children who showed no traces of the poison. [...]
14 May
Slow it down already!
This blog is all about health, but usually I focus on food or chemicals. There is another aspect of health that is incredibly important that I feel like we hardly think about in Western society and that is the pace of our life, the amount of stress in our surroundings, and the decisions we make [...]
11 May
What’s for dessert?
When my oldest was younger and didn’t know any better, we rarely finished dinner with dessert. When we did, it was usually fruit. Now we have a 5 and 2.5 year old and they ask “what’s for dessert?” almost every night. About half the time we have dessert, the other half I tell them not [...]
8 May
Environment and Cancer
Cancer is a subject near and dear to my heart. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer 10 years ago and one of my dearest friends with brain cancer last year. The fear of my children developing cancer or some other disease because of chemicals in their environment that I could have protected them from [...]
5 May
Going vegetarian
Read this interesting post from a blogger about why she decided to become a vegetarian.
3 May
Tips on how to avoid raising a picky eater
Check out this great post from a mom about how to keep your child from being a picky eater.
