Formula Safety: 7 Tips To Minimize Risks
This week a new study was published in Environmental Health Perspectives that found alarming levels of arsenic in baby formulas. The amount of arsenic in one organic formula was 6 times the recommended threshold for adults. This is so distressing to a mom giving her baby formula (like I currently am). You try to do the best for your baby and the industry just seems to totally fail us sometimes! But this news is hardly exclusive as a reason to avoid formula. There are all kinds of scary things going on in formula (bug parts anyone?) and the evidence that breastfeeding is so...
Read More15 Tips for Raising Kids With a Positive Body Image
I wish I could say the above images were designed by me to make a point about fat-phobia and how poorly kids are treated when they don’t fit society’s ideal of size. Maybe I threw them together because I thought the SHOCK of seeing kids would help people understand how fat-shaming in adults can feel. Alas, a group in Georgia actually produced these billboards in an attempt to end childhood obesity. Apparently they thought that shame was a good way to motivate kids to eat healthier and exercise. Clearly, they also are working under the delusion that size can somehow...
Read MoreThe Presidential Election and Infertility Law
I think I deserve a pat on the back for not calling this post “Newt is an Ass”. Newt Gingrich, the disgraced former speaker of the House that was pushed out in a ground–breaking censure by his own colleagues for ethics violations, is somehow inexplicably an actual contender for President of the United States of America. Yes, in America we (at least some of us) love mediocrity – we love presidents that drop out of college and can’t even fulfill their obligations to their constituents. I literally think I’m getting a repeated use injury from...
Read MoreMamatography: Week #5
I’m participating this year in the Mamatography Project hosted by Diary of a First Child. I always thought picture-a-day things were cool but not for me. I can’t remember to do anything once a day! Then I thought about just doing it with my iPhone – it takes decent pictures and it is ALWAYS with me! I actually post my pictures on Instagram so you can always see there (and join me!) or on Facebook or Twitter. I have A LOT of pics this week because the boys took their first solo baths (I usually bathe with them). Some of these pics were not taken by me!...
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