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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Book Review: Valerie Orsoni’s Le Personal Coach
Are you a harried, working Mom who complains that she has no time to work out because her job and her child(ren) dominate her waking hours? Me too. Which is why I’ve helplessly watched myself grow steadily outward, adding rings of flesh to my middle with each passing year, kind of like a redwood tree. Unlike a redwood tree, however, I’m not very tall, so instead, I just make excuses. I say stuff like, “I work full-time and have to take care of a 15-month-old and a husband with the mentality of a 15-year old.” Or, “I barely have time to … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Reviews
Tagged book review, celebrity fitness secrets, le personal coach, valerie orsoni
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Sunday Health Tip: An Introduction to Flower Essences
I thought it was about time to introduce my readership to Flower Essences, so I asked Dr. Connie Hernandez, ND, to write an article about them. She used them as a healing tool to help me on my journey to fertility, and ever since, I’ve been fascinated by them. I did mention them in my post, “Natural Remedies for Grief,” but I thought it would take a real expert to do them justice. ===================================================================== Among the many types of remedies that we use as naturopathic doctors, flower essences are some of my favorites. Often people hear the words “flower essence” and … Continue reading
Ask Dr. Corrine: Natural Treatments for Allergies & Hay Fever
When we have chronic allergies, our immune system has been shifted away from a response that deals more with bacteria and viruses towards a response that causes more allergic tendencies. This is usually due to our bodies being over-stimulated by exposure to multiple irritants and becoming hypersensitive to different agents. With a shift in the immune response, our immune system is hypersensitive to things such as dust, pollen, grasses, pet dander, or allergic foods, and allergies can often be found in a triad with asthma and eczema. The most important thing to do at this point is to try and avoid … Continue reading
A Home Remedy for Carpet Odor, or How to Make Your Own Aromatherapy Carpet Freshener
For some reason, I’ve got stinky stuff on the brain this week. First it was stinky diaper pails. Now, it’s stinky carpets. To be honest, my carpets don’t chronically stink, mostly because we don’t have pets. But when we first moved in, we DID have a flea infestation, and we DO have a baby that frequently crawls off during poopie diaper changes, and we also have a hapless, unaware Mom like me, who regularly steps into the doggie doody that my neighbors with pets are gracious enough to leave for me on the neighborhood sidewalks. Lucky for me, essential oils … Continue reading
Posted in Housekeeping
Tagged aromatherapy recipes, carpet freshener, carpet odor, essential oil recipe, home remedies, natural
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Wordless Wednesdays: Baby’s First Homecoming!
Posted in Funny, Joyful Moments
Tagged baby's first, football game, homecoming, wordless
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Home Remedy for Stinky Diaper Pails
Whoo-eee! If you’re using conventional diapers (i.e., non-cloth), then you know that that diaper pail sure can get stinky. The one in my house is so nasty, it could wake the dead. That is why we put it near the front door, so that it can knock out guests as they walk in, enabling us to ransack their pockets for extra cash. Just kidding. Not really. We use compostable diapers and have a compostable diaper service pick ours up every week, but just because we’re being environmentally friendly doesn’t mean that that pervasive stink doesn’t still waft itself into our … Continue reading
Posted in Baby & Child Care, Housekeeping
Tagged aromatherapy, cinnamon, clove, deodorant, deodorize, diapers, essential oils, eucalyptus, Ginger, home remedies, home remedy, how to, Peppermint, remove odor, rosemary, sage, stinky diaper pail, Tea Tree, thyme
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Sunday Health Tip: Come to your SENSES…or, the Six Pillars of Natural Health & Wellness
SENSES is an acronym I came up with for remembering the six pillars of natural health: Stress Management, Exercise, Nutrition, Sleep, Elimination, and Sunlight/Fresh Air. If I’m being honest, though, if I were to put them in order of importance, it would be: Nutrition, Exercise, Elimination, Sleep, Sunlight/Fresh Air, and Stress Management. But that uses up all the vowels too early and NEESSS would have no mnemonic value whatsoever. So, SENSES it is. Stress Management: Let’s face it, stress is an inescapable part of modern life. In fact, we wouldn’t even want to escape all stress, because some stress is … Continue reading
Posted in Naturopathic Medicine, Nutrition, Women's Health
Tagged achieve, attain, elimination, exercise, fresh air, how to, importance of, maintain, natural health, nutrition, obtain, sleep, stress management, stress reduction, sunlight, wellness
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Baby Expenditures: Splurge vs. Save? A Visual Guide
Ask Dr. Marcel: When and what solid foods do I introduce to my baby?
Dear Dr. Marcel, I know that it is best to feed the baby breastmilk for the first 6 months and to introduce solid foods after that point, but I can’t find any specific information on WHAT solid foods to introduce and WHEN. Can you help? After 6 months, this is the food introduction schedule that I suggest. If you’d like to download a .pdf file of this schedule, please sign up for the Holistic Mamas e-mail list and it will be made available to you. 6 Months 9 Months 12 Months 18 Months 24 Months 2-3 Years Mother’s milk Avocado … Continue reading
Night-Weaning: An Update on the Boob Front
Nights 2 and 3 of night-weaning have been just awful. Night 2, I didn’t even try. I just rolled over and capitulated, peeling open my nursing top whenever she clamored…basically because I was too tired from Night 1. So I woke up feeling like I only got run over by a pickup truck, versus the usual Mack truck after an all-night bout of nursing. But last night, oh boy, here we went again. 7:30pm Started bedtime routine, baby asleep by 8pm 8:30pm 1st wake-up, nursed her, baby asleep by 8:45pm 12:10am 2nd wake-up, crawled into bed for the night & … Continue reading
Posted in Breastfeeding/Nursing, Weaning
Tagged breastfeeding, night weaning, nursing, toddler, weaning baby at night
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