Posts tagged - Health
One of the many hurdles mothers face is losing weight after pregnancy. With my first daughter it was wonderful. I lost my baby weight plus an additional 30lbs! I was in heaven! Now the second baby, different story. So far I have only lost my baby weight plus an additional 15lbs and am desperately working for more.
In most homes colds are just an everyday thing you deal with and get over, especially with small children around. In our house though, it is a different story. A cold means many sleepless nights and many days of suffering for Maddie. I am happy to report that the Dr. said it is something most people grow out of and that someday she may just “get a cold” and be fine.
Over 23 million people in the United States suffer with the disease and face scary complications such as heart and kidney disease, stroke, blindness, neuropathy, and amputation or even death. Some in the statistics we read about include small children who live different lives than the rest of us trying to stay as healthy as they can. Parents worry at all times – constantly checking on their little ones.
As a parent you will have to make the personal decision of breast or bottle. Don’t worry, you will get many opinions – most of them very strong on one side or the other. There are pros and cons to both!
Obviously, between breastfeeding and bottle feeding, breastfeeding seems to be the ideal nourishment for your baby being that it is what nature had intended. Research has shown that children who breastfeed are passed anti-bodies that help reduce ear infections, diarrhea, allergies, and obesity. It is easily digested and provides many of the vitamins baby needs…
Have you been checked yet this month or this year? As many know, women around the world celebrate breast cancer awareness month in October of every year. Why such a big to-do? Well some statistics show that breast cancer is the second largest cancer killer in women, right behind skin cancers. At some point in a woman’s life she will be facing a 1 in 8 chance of developing invasive breast cancer. It is estimated that for the year 2010 over 207, 000 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and around 54, 000 will be diagnosed with early forms of breast cancer…
Surely, before you had kids you heard people say that being a mom is and will be the hardest job you will ever do. After you became a mom you quickly realized they were right. It cannot be compared to any full-time job, even one with over-time, because as a mom you literally are never relieved of your duty; there is no time card to swipe out. There are no weekends, evenings, lunch hours and so on, only 24/7 around the clock care.
Thanks for visiting! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Have a look around and make sure to leave us a comment or feedback.As a country and even throughout the world, we have come to realize that we are facing a crisis when it comes to our health and especially our weight. Really it has gone too far as we are no longer affecting just ourselves; we are hurting our children and our future generation. What are the issues, what is causing this, and [...]
I think these days we are all trying to eat a little healthier as well as trying to get our kids to. Here are two easy to make kids recipes that your kids will love and they will never even think of them as being “healthy.” One of Maddie’s, and I think most kids’ favorite food is spaghetti. For a couple years I have experimented in making the healthiest and tastiest versions I could. Here is what I’ve come up with … I hope you enjoy! Number one on my [...]
Summer may be nearing its end, but we still have plenty of time to squeeze in any last activities with our kids. Especially if our children are heading back to school, we will want to go have some fun while we still can! If you have older children too here are some activities that everyone in the family will enjoy. For now we will focus on summer activities and will wait to talk about what to do in the winter when the time comes. Here are my top 5 Summer [...]
Don’t toddlers have an incredible reserve when it comes to their energy supply? I know mine keeps me going from the time she awakes to the time she sleeps. These toddler years though are so important in our child’s development – much too important for us to rely on the TV, computer or video games to keep them entertained… we need to have fun and enjoy many different activities with toddlers to keep them going. In this article, I am going to focus on fun activities with toddlers that engage [...]
One tasty benefit of summer is the large, beautiful zucchinis you can purchase (or grow) from the farm. Some may not realize the potential for one of these monster zucchinis as they are not the most scrumptious to cook and serve. However, many bakers identify this as the time to break out their zucchini nut bread recipe! Why does it have to be a big, farm size zucchini you may wonder. It doesn’t have to be, but since they are not all that good for eating, they are great for [...]
One great thing that summer brings is local, organic, farm fresh food that is super delicious and much better than anything you can buy in a market. If it must be 100ºF out at least there are some benefits, right? Well, on one of these 100ºF days we decided that we just had to get some sweet corn and other great produce that our local farm provides …so we made the trip. Maddie was very excited the whole way, asking when we were going to get to the “farm” because [...]
