All of us want the best for our children and those we hold dear to us. Sometimes it is difficult to know who to trust. Who to listen to? Which system of thought is that closest to how nature designed us? What has stood the test of time? Is survival of the fittest important- as […]
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Circumcision I have three boys, none of whom I had cut. The first, over 35 years ago, set the scene – so precious the new life out of my body . . no way was anyone going to harm him. When he and his brothers all grazed their knees or were otherwise damaged for the
News from NZ shows that children who have been vaccinated against whooping cough are still catching the disease. Latest figures show the pertussis, or whooping cough, outbreak in Canterbury is still in full swing, with the region having the highest number of cases in the country in the first two weeks of April 2012.
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We often hear concerns from parents of babies taken into neonatal units after birth about the possible adverse effects of antibiotics that seem to be given routinely. They are also upset about the distress caused to the baby by injections or the insertion of needles or tubes. As all of us know nowadays, our intestines
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(written 1999) There was my baby daughter, stuck in a well body with a ravaged brain. A baby brain – a relatively undifferentiated brain, one that had the potential to heal itself in ways that adult ones cannot. A quickly developing neurological system. If some of the dormant cells could be encouraged to take over,
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A – IN THE BEGINNING (written 2006 to attempt to get a decent day placement for her) Kathryn, my third child, was born in Brisbane, with an active toxoplasmotic infection, caught in utero, which nearly killed her. Once she was medically stable at about 6 weeks of age, a scan was done of her healing
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(written 1998) Some of this is fairly raw/ more like a journal for me to work out just ‘what was I doing???’ after the dust settled down. STAGE ONE – pregnancy – 1st few months – 1986 Initially, the awareness that she was not as her brothers in utero, that there was no sense of
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One Mother’s Journey by Heather Bruce This work has come out of me in bits over the decades.Always aware the three books are so needed for others. . And for me – and those who traveled this path with me How to write the sequel to the last Skye account? When I am not the
One Mother’s Journey by Heather Bruce – written 2001 Reflections on Skye’s Life Kathryn Skye was born 15 years ago, my third child. Whilst pregnant, I wondered at the lack of connection I felt towards the growing baby. I knew I my body was pregnant, yet it felt like nobody was at home/ there was
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Do you have a Plan B – what do you do when your children are vaccinated and they STILL get sick? http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/04/17/aps-on-epidemic-autism-spectrum-diseases.aspx?e_cid=20120417_DNL_art_1