Posts by sassyfirechick

Quote: Originally Posted by SonjaStahl  I take anywhere from 12- 20 grams of pure ascorbic acid on a normal healthy day (that's where my tolerance is at, everyones is different.) drinking around 4 grams at a...

I'm going to go against the grain here and say I think a reward system is great.  BUT, there's a right way and a wrong way.  Charts are like bribery.  Even if you shorten the time span from the 20 days (which is far too...

Quote: Originally Posted by emmy526  Well the majority of these cases are along the I-91 corridor so who's to say the bulk of our flu isn't being brought in by out of state commuters from MA and NY?  I saw...

Adding on to the suggestion of dessert 1st - if it's pure protein/clories/healthy food you're looking to get into her rather than just junk for the sake of eating (which would be my path of choice but fortunately/unfortunately I...

If it helps/makes you feel better, my father was born with epilepsy and cerebral palsy.  He was vaxxed as a child but far less than kids are today (he was born in 1954), and never had a flu vax.  He was on phenobarbital and...

I was raised Cathiolic, but I too prefer to look more towards mother nature as my guide in life.  Even in all my years of catholic school, I was very interested in science and so creation theory didn't sit with me.  I'm...

Quote: Originally Posted by Blt178  CNN had Anderson Cooper on last night with BREAKING NEWS about the flu becoming EPIDEMIC!! This was followed by the newest school shooting in California. Really? Are these two things...

I like the gating of the room.  DD is 14mos but can already 'climb' the bars on her crib to get her feet halfway up and if she takes a stuffed animal to bed she will used that as a step stool so we choose bedtime stuffies...

Just a thought, if she's already getting constipated at a young age and she's 'craving' these things, that's a sure sign of a food intolerance - especially the dairy.  I would be limiting the dairy as much as possible bc all the...

I've pretty much always done DD's while awake, she's 14mos, so she's more interested in the clippers now, but it's not a big deal - we sing the ABC's or she gets to read a book to me or we count her fingers as I go and it's enough to...