Optimum Fertility ~ Nutrition

  Hey there, readers!  I needed a wee break & now I am back with  the second part of my Optimum Fertility series. As I discussed in my previous post, both environment and nutrition play a huge part in optimum fertility.  Today I will talk about the dietary ingredients for an ideal fertility diet.  Again […]

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Optimum Fertility ~ Environment

  I’ve been getting quite a few calls lately about fertility nutrition.  Usually, I refer folks to the guest blog post I wrote on pregnancy nutrition, but I thought it was time to address some of the questions right here on my blog. For optimal fertility, you want all of your hormones in balance and […]

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Preventing Pregnancy Nausea

Morning sickness.   If you talk to enough moms, you will learn that “morning sickness” can happen at any time of the day (or night!)  Often dreaded, usually endured, rarely life-threatening (except in the case of  Hyperemesis Gravidarum.) Statistics vary, stating that 50 to 90% of pregnant women suffer from nausea at some time during […]

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My New E-Book is Here!

  I am very proud to announce that I have finished my first e-book!   Tips for Creating a Relaxing Pregnancy is available for FREE by clicking this link.   Big thanks to Paul Zelizer; my marketing coach, Jill Mitchell and all the members of my Mastermind Group who supported me through the process of […]

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Prenatal Parenting: Feeding the Baby

I recently asked my friends on FaceBook for blog topics that interested them.  Except for one, all of them wanted to know about birth and topics related to post-partum.  Not a single one asked specifically about Pregnancy! While I may start a regular blog post where I link to topics of interest to parents (indeed, […]

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The Importance of Vitamin D in Pregnancy

Vitamin D isn’t really a vitamin, but a hormone pre-cursor that is essential for the body to grow and function properly. Last year, I was shocked by the many recent reports of Rickets showing up in babies of highly educated, higher-income moms. I dug in and did LOTS of research and am now convinced that […]

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Primal Pregnancy

Hi Everyone~ I’m back! Our move to Santa Fe was easy and we’ve been here almost a month now. The sun…the sun…the SUN! You folks living in the Pacific NW will know exactly what I mean. My energy is skyrocketing now that I’m over the initial acclimatizing period (we are at 7,000 feet) and I […]

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What I’ve been up to…

Just a few days after my last blog post, I was doing some web research and came across this website.  Little did I know that this would be the start of more paradigm-shifting for me that would result in some BIG life changes. Like many in my birth community, I had been eating according to […]

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