Parenting

New News on Cleaners

March 29, 2012

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World Cleaning used to be a simple thing. You learned what to use from your parents and bought the same products when you moved into your own house. But new reports just emerging may make you rethink choosing some of those brands. Earlier this month, a [...]

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NY Times Blames Co-Sleeping for SIDS with NO Mention of Flame Retardants in Crib Mattresses

March 27, 2012

I am a co-sleeping advocate! It was the right decision for my family. When practiced safely, it is the most natural sleep solution and nurturing thing you can do for your children. Unfortunately, the media loves to attack co-sleeping as a risk factor for SIDS without mentioning the possibility that toxic chemicals in crib mattresses are [...]

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Ted Talks: Compassion and the Golden Rule

March 27, 2012

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Technology Vs. Science: Natural Birth Scientifically and Ethically Safer

March 21, 2012

So why is it that, over a decade later, when the evidence still supports a low-interventionist type of pregnancy and birth management for low-risk cases, we’ve made virtually no inroads to making birth more scientific in the United States. The Atlantic published a great piece yesterday titled “The Most Scientific Birth Is Often the Least [...]

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Vaccine-Derived Polio in India Will Not Affect “Polio-Free” Status

March 20, 2012

One reason parents often avoid the polio vaccine is the fear that their child may actually contract the disease from the vaccine. Once upon a time, I was told that this live vaccine could actually be contracted through changing diapers. Like much information about vaccines that is shared, sometimes it is hard to separate fact [...]

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Is Breastfeeding Revolutionary?

March 20, 2012

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director & CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org I remember the first time I saw someone breastfeed. I was 27 and had just gotten married; one of my best friends had her baby the same year. We all sat around marveling at this amazing little being she had created and [...]

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One Year Breastfeeding Reduces Risk of Breast Cancer by 32% for BRCA 1 Gene

March 19, 2012

It’s relatively common knowledge that long term breastfeeding reduces the risk of developing breast cancer later in life. Even so, some prominent cancer organizations still don’t wholeheartedly embrace the premise. Cancer.org reports: Not breast-feeding: Some studies have shown that breast-feeding slightly lowers breast cancer risk, especially if the breast-feeding lasts 1½ to 2 years. This could [...]

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Introducing The Honest Company! Diapers, Sunscreen, Detergent, Etc.

March 18, 2012

When someone you admire joins a start up company, you take notice. Janelle Sorensen was the chief communications oficer at Healthy Child Healthy World. She is a “seasoned environmental health advocate”. For her to join this new company and thus give it her endorsement, it has to be authentically green and safe! Founded by actress [...]

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Raising Boys With ADHD

March 14, 2012

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a disorder that affects 5.4 million children between the ages of four to seventeen, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although this disorder was first documented in 1845, “rates of ADHD diagnosis increased…an average of 5.5% per year from 2003 to 2007″. Furthermore, boys are more [...]

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Supporters Gather to Celebrate Colette

March 13, 2012

by Rachel Lincoln Saroff Executive Director & CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Thanks to everyone who helped us “Celebrate Colette” this week, where we kicked off our Spanish Translation program with a bang. We raised more than $11,000 to begin translation of our 5 Easy Steps and “A Wake Up Story” video, to support [...]

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