nutrition

Did you ever wonder when your baby becomes aware? Or if a baby is aware at all?  Or how the quality of your pregnancy and birth would affect your baby? Do babies remember and learn from experience? Well, research now shows there is a mind at work in your baby, and it starts working long before birth. This is big news for scientists but moms and dads probably knew it all along.

Everyone should be taking Calcium/Magnesium supplements, especially pregnant and breastfeeding women, as well as menopausal women and children. In pregnant and breastfeeding women, the body will rob from itself to provide enough of these nutrients for the growing baby. This is why many women come out of pregnancy and breastfeeding with teeth problems and thinning bones, muscle cramps and backaches.

This article contains a large list of things that can trigger hot flashes (learn what to avoid), herbs that help with menopausal symptoms (hot flashes in particular), and even emotional considerations surrounding woman's time of menopause.  (To read the entire article, please Login or Subscribe.)

Learn what a plugged duct is, what can cause them, and how to eliminate it before it turns into mastitis. Find out what herbs and supplements are recommended that will quickly help clear a plug, and to keep them from ever occuring again.  Learn what breastfeeding positions will help clear a plug, and why its so important to keep breastfeeding.  (To read the entire article, please Login or Subscribe.)

In this expanded and in-depth article, learn what affects milk production, and what the different herbs, products or techniques are that are successfully in helping to increase production.

This article give information on the causes of mastitis, who is at greatest risk, how to prevent it, and most importantly, how to resolve it quickly and without the need for antibiotics.  (To read the entire article, please Login or Subscribe.)

Some women can experience nausea related to pregnancy, commonly known as morning sickness. This awful nausea can occur at any time of the day or night, or even all day and night for some. It's a fickle thing - what works one day might not work the next, but the day after that, it might work again. It's a matter of trying different things all the time to find what's going to work that day.

In this highly informative article, find out why Reflux is commonly incorrectly diagnosed and what other issues may really be to blame.  Read about the risks of antacid medications such as Prilosec® and Prevacid®, and how taking these medications can actually GIVE you Reflux when you may not have actually had it in the first place!

The thyroid is a gland located in the base of the neck. It secretes a hormone that controls metabolic activity in the body - it acts as the body's thermostat and regulator. It is one of the glands that make up the endocrine system, along with the adrenals, the ovaries, the pituitary and the thymus. When one gland becomes stressed or compromised, it can affect or "drag down" the others along with it.