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If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to the Natural Parenting - A Much Better Way RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! First time parents are in for the experience of a lifetime! After surviving 9 months of pregnancy, a wardrobe of maternity clothes, baby showers, and decorating the nursery with care, you have [...]

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Cloth vs. Disposable Diapers – What is Better?

“The most significant environmental impacts for all three diaper systems were on resource depletion, acidification and global warming. For one child, over two-and-a-half years, these impacts are roughly comparable with driving a car between 1,300 and 2,200 miles.”The Diaper Debate – Are Disposables as Green as Cloth? ABC News Author: Kalwant Rana As a new parent, [...]

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Your baby: 10 milestones for the first 2 years
• CNN.com “Every milestone — from when your baby first holds up her sweet little head to when she speaks her first word — is thrilling. These moments aren’t just exciting and fun; they’re also markers that can clue you in to your baby’s development. Most parents already know to look for the much-lauded ones, like rolling [...] Read More
450 Billion Disposable Diapers a Year
• “The facts are staggering. Studies have shown an infant goes through between 7,000 and 8,000 diaper changes before entering potty training. World Watch estimates 450 billion disposable diapers are used each year and contribute nearly 77 million tons of waste to landfills. Even worse, a disposable diaper normally made out of plastics [...] Read More
Study Shows Chlorella Boost Breastfeeding Immunity Properties
• Image by PROYECTO AGUA** /** WATER PROJECT via Flickr Article Source: Bio-medicine.org; TORRANCE, Calif., June 18 /PRNewswire/ — A Japanese study found women who took Chlorella pyrenoidosa supplements during pregnancy had significantly higher IgA antibody concentrations in their breast milk(1). The higher levels of IgA resulted in a reduced risk of infection in nursing infants. The [...] Read More
Shocking Baby Throwing Video
• Unfathomable and horrific to watch, devotees at a shrine at Solapur in western India’s Maharastra observe a bizarre ritual of throwing infants for good health from a height of 50 feet on to a cloth sheet held below. What is wrong with people? Read More
Study Shows Today’s Kids Have More Autonomy But Inside More
• Image by 4peterse via Flickr Source: MedicalNewsToday.com – “Parents are faced with a difficult task when they try to balance authority with children’s autonomy: they are trying to be the right kind of parents, while at the same time trying to form the right kind of kids. And there are many sources of information and social [...] Read More
ER Visits Due to PE Class Up 150%
• Image via Wikipedia Source: WebMD.com Aug. 3, 2009 — The number of students who end up in emergency rooms because of physical education class injuries has increased significantly since the late 1990s, according a new study. For the study, published in Pediatrics, researchers analyzed data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance Study of the U.S. Consumer Product [...] Read More
Hospitalization Rates 3 Times Higher For Kids Who Get Flu Vaccine
• Image by alvi2047 via Flickr “ScienceDaily (May 20, 2009) — The inactivated flu vaccine does not appear to be effective in preventing influenza-related hospitalizations in children, especially the ones with asthma. In fact, children who get the flu vaccine are more at risk for hospitalization than their peers who do not get the vaccine, according to [...] Read More
Video: Infant Potty Training – Diaper free baby
• Those that practice Elimination Communication to potty train babies from birth can either forgo diapers altogether or simply cut back dramatically on their use. Practitioners of EC are able to avoid cloth and disposable diapers altogether, form a closer bond with their infants by learning to communicate from birth, the babies never have to sit [...] Read More