tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045358383548569465.post7284131740675680739..comments2024-03-11T15:07:48.585-04:00Comments on The Healthy Happy Wife: Planning for a Baby? Preventing Autism and ADHD?Irene Shaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04224288474467941650noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045358383548569465.post-6490602773698216962014-07-11T12:26:13.960-04:002014-07-11T12:26:13.960-04:00Irene!
I'm loving your blog! I just stumbl...Irene!<br /> <br /> I'm loving your blog! I just stumbled across it looking for healthy desserts! I also have a "health blog" - MandysHealthyLife.com. I started it for the same reasons as you. I just love modifying and creating new recipes to share that are healthier, in hope that someone will be inspired to take baby steps to changing their life.<br /><br />I totally agree with you on this post. I don't know much about autism & ADHD. But I did do everything in my power to create a healthy enviroment for my new baby. I ate as healthy as possible and tried to ballance out my life before conceiving. I read many articles about how ultrasounds can interfer with babies natural developement as well, so I limited those. I stayed away from refined sugar, gluten and dairy and controlled my cravings with positive thinking. Our daughter, who is now 1, is the sweetest, easiest, smart little girl. She's was never colicy, never sick, no ear infections or other on going problems most babies have. 'Most babies' include my older son, who I was not healthy with and he now has ecsema, which we are trying to fix with a healthy diet. My son was vaccinated and my daughter was not. My son has been sick since day one and my daughter was not. I had my son in a hospital so he recived the standard treatment, which included the vitamin K shot, the antibiotic eye cream, and the hep B vaccine. From the start my son was filled with toxins, and the hospital staff didn't need my approval, which I think is wrong. My daughter was born at home and hasn't received any shots or antibiotics, with the help of our awesome midwife, who fully supported us. <br /><br />Since I have seen both sides, a western medicine birth and a natural birth I can understand how many children don't seem typical. I read in Ecoholic that babies umbilical cords can have hundreds of stored toxins in them. So our new little babies are already so sick from the day they are born, constantly fighting off sickness, which can lead to developement issues. An awesome book is Pregnancy, Childbirth & Children's Diets by Joel Robbins. It's about preparing your body for a healthy pregnancy and baby. It's strict and he tells it like it is, no beating around the bush, that's for sure. A great book, my favourite, for over all health is the Conscious Health by Ron Garner. That book changed my life. And my new favourite book is the Kind Mama by Alicia Silverstone. Her natural, healthy way of conceiving, pregnancy and childbirth are true and I couldn't have writen it better myself. <br /><br />Thanks for writing this post! It is so important that moms get healthy BEFORE they conceive! I could go on and on about western medicine and how important a healthy alkaline diet REALLY is, but I won't!<br /><br />Mandy Dugas from MandysHealthyLife.comMandy Dugashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18235372426851844361noreply@blogger.com