The topic of pediatric mental health has been garnering attention and with good reason and I’m discussing the correlation between pediatric mental health and massage. Stress and anxiety and mood and behavioral disorders have been growing at an alarming rate. We can point to reasons such as a global pandemic, social media for older kids, […]
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Ear infections are incredibly common in kids from infancy to grade school. Ear infections in baby are the most common reasons parents bring their child to the doctor. I want to share my experience and that of my daughter to provide additional information to this common issue. How Common Is It? A whopping 83% of children
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Did you know massage can help with infant reflux? It didn’t occur to me until I was steeped in the experience with my daughter. Is it Allergies or Reflux? It was the spring of 2016 and my first born was one year old and was throwing up almost every day. In January, we learned that
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Imagine this. You wake up in the morning and there is someone around to cook breakfast for your kiddos and help them get ready for school. Then, someone else takes them to school and picks them up. Someone shares extracurricular activities with them after school, helps make dinner, helps with homework and chores, and so
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As if there were not enough issues in the world to turn us against one another, here’s a hot one. Well, it’s a hot topic but most of stay silent in the debate. Why? Because like many polarizing issues, most of us don’t fall into the extremes. We’re in the middle, seeing, feeling, experiencing both
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Our digestive health is single handedly one of the most significant indicators of our health, so it is no surprise that parents and all the postpartum professionals become hyper focused on baby’s digestive health. Gas, colic, constipation, even reflux are very common in the first year of baby’s life. I often read about natural interventions
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It’s National Breastfeeding Month in America, designated in 2011 to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding and human milk feeding. (You can read the proclamation here, if you’re interested.) Yet, there is one question we’re not asking about breastfeeding. The Debate We Keep Hearing So is it just me or is anyone else tired of the
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As we know, every child is different but so is the mother’s experience in birthing and raising each of her children in the first year. Many mothers will comment on how starkly different one birth is from the other. My story is no different. The births of my two daughters were so different and unique
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A Brief History of Cesareans Let me start off by saying that cesareans are an amazing thing and often necessary and lifesaving. The first records of the c-section being done successfully were in the 1500’s. The sordid history of the cesarean in America includes the bodies of black women being used for experimentation by doctors
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The Moment I Decided to Have a Home Birth When I learned I was pregnant with my 2nd child, there wasn’t even a discussion on where or how I wanted to birth. My husband knew. He asked once to confirm and then never again. After how things went with my first child, and given the
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