Posts by richella

Well, I like the idea of adding stock etc to commercial food. I'm already adding an herbal infusion and nutri yeast, that would be another step. OTOH I'm starting to think the problem is not just absence of nutrients but presence of...

I'm thinking about taking my cats off commercial food and putting them on a homemade diet. I can easily get grass-fed beef and/or probably chickens raised in a yard by someone I know, but I don't want to cook it in my house. Come to...

Sounds like a tmj imbalance. I'd take her to a chiropractor or certified craniosacral therapist. At this age, it could likely be completely corrected. Letting it go could potentially lead to tmj problems in the future.

When faced with a similar situation, I considered this option, but decided that I could not labor and fight medical staff at the same time. That was probably one of the reasons I had the surgery last time. In the end I chose to birth...

I never got the hang of hand expressing, so I was immensely grateful for the Avent Isis I had. Neither dd ever really took a bottle, but I pumped a lot w/dd1 because I had lots of clogs, engorgement, etc. I'm pretty sure the Avent...

Wow majik, glad you're all okay!

Anybody experiencing inexplicable sadness these days? It's been over a week, i think. It comes and goes briefly, maybe 1 or 2 times/day, not nec. every day, and never seems to be attached to anything. It's not unusual for me to pick up...

It's interesting about choices. My older dd HAS to have her choices in everything. Even if she's too tired to pick her pajamas, she will ask me to give her 2 choices. My younger dd appears to be the opposite. Today she said no to every...

That's interesting. I'm pretty sure the only reason was to keep the colors from getting mixed up. If there were any real theory behind it, I wouldn't have the same objection, or maybe none at all. It's pretty clear to me though that...

LSS I wanted to hs but decided to try preschool for dd. Am just now starting to see signs of some of the obvious drawbacks of school. [a certain relative, won't name her] who pushed for school : . . . and has a lot of experience in day...