API’s Eight Principles of Parenting

The long-range vision of Attachment Parenting is to raise children who will become adults with a highly developed capacity for empathy and connection. It eliminates violence as a means for raising children, and ultimately helps to prevent violence in society as a whole.
The essence of Attachment Parenting is about forming and nurturing strong connections between [...]

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Help Save Handmade Toys in the USA from the CPSIA

Help Save Handmade Toys in the USA from the CPSIA (from http://sites.google.com/site/handmadetoyalliance/)

The issue:
In 2007, large toy manufacturers who outsource their production to China and other developing countries violated the public’s trust. They were selling toys with dangerously high lead content, toys with unsafe small part, toys with improperly secured and easily swallowed small magnets, [...]

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Announcing Baby Zen

a HBA2CS this time!!! Announcing Baby Zen

Although i havent had much time to type, I finally found the time to write a short version of the birth story of our son, Valentine Zenson Lazarus (baby Zen). He was my 2nd VBAC but first HBA2CS (his brother was a VBAC at a free standing birth [...]

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Infant Mortality: U.S. Ranks 29th

Infant Mortality: U.S. Ranks 29th
U.S. Ties Slovakia, Poland for 29th Place in Infant Deaths
By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

Oct. 15, 2008 — The U.S. ranks 29th worldwide in infant mortality, tying Slovakia and Poland but lagging behind Cuba, the CDC reports.
The CDC’s latest estimates for international rankings are [...]

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Suspect Diagnoses Come with Biophysical Profiling

Suspect Diagnoses Come with Biophysical Profiling
by Gloria Lemay
© 2004 Midwifery Today, Inc. All rights reserved.
[Editor's note: This article first appeared in Midwifery Today Issue 69, Spring 2004.]
Many North American women are being told at the very end of their pregnancies to go to an ultrasound clinic and have a biophysical profile done. Most are impressed [...]

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US Maternity Care on the Hot Seat

October 12th, 2008 by Judith Lothian

The Milbank Report, Evidence-Based Maternity Care: What It Is and What It Can Achieve, was released on October 8. This report should shake the world of maternity care to its very core!
The authors of Evidence-Based Maternity Care, Carol Sakala and Maureen Corry, have a  long involvement with evidence-based maternity care [...]

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Don’t stymie choice of home childbirth

By GERADINE SIMKINS
Posted: July 17, 2008
One wonders what process the American Medical Association House of Delegates used to determine that its resolution on home deliveries was prudent and reasonable.
AMA resolution 205 attempts to outlaw a woman’s choice to give birth at home or in a freestanding birth center by calling for legislation to establish hospitals [...]

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Parenting Books

I finally got a list together of my Parenting Books.
Without further ado:
GENERAL HEALTH:

How to Raise a Healthy Child…In Spite of Your Doctor, Robert S. Mendelsohn
Wise Woman Herbal Childbearing Year, Susan Weed
The Healthiest Kid in the Neighborhood, Sears & Sears
A Mother’s Guide to Raising Healthy Children Naturally, Sue Frederick
Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health, Susan B. [...]

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Pregnancy Related Books

I finally finished compiling my list of parenting, pregnancy, etc. related books. So, I thought I would share the list with whomever reads my blog. Feel free to recommend additional books…I do love books
Those related to Natural Child Birth and Pregnancy (in no particular order):

Aromatherapy During Your Pregnancy, Fances R. Cliffford
Unassisted Homebirth, An [...]

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Vaccine Books I Recommend

These are the books on vaccinations I have:
Just a Little Prick, Peter & Hillary Butler (2006)
Evidence of Harm,  David Kirby (2005)
Raising a Vaccine Free Child, Wendy Lydall (2005)
Vaccinations:  The Rest of the Story, A Selection of Articles, Letters and Resources 1979-1992 ,  Mothering Special Edition (1992)
Vaccination:  The Issue of Our Times, edited by Peggy O’Mara [...]

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