Baby Products You Actually Need (& What You Can Live Without)
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I remember being pregnant with my first baby and going to the store to register for baby products. I was like a kid in a candy store, convinced that I…
Motherhood
Tips and resources to help moms create healthy lifestyles for their families through natural pregnancy and birth, positive parenting and natural living.
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How to Use Fertility Monitors to Space or Avoid Pregnancy
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As many of you know, I’ve had six children in nine years. I’m certainly open to having more children in the future, but I feel like my body would benefit…
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Guide to Healthy Baby Food
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Healthy baby food is a topic I feel very strongly about and will definitely step onto the soapbox for! Like many aspects of life, convenience doesn’t equal quality (although I…
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5 Reasons to Have a Moms’ Night Out
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Being a mom is hard work. Really hard work (but that’s preaching to the choir, right?)!! I love my children, but that doesn’t make caring for them 24/7 any easier.…
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How to Reverse Infertility & Get Pregnant Naturally
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There’s no doubt that infertility is a rising problem in today’s society. And while this has never been an issue for me, the CDC finds that about 10 percent of…
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Gentle Foaming Baby Wash (Easy Homemade Recipe)
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There’s nothing cuter or sweeter smelling than a baby fresh out of the bath! Unfortunately, those sweet-smelling conventional baby washes can strip away natural protective oils, and many contain undesirable…
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Shattering Six Common Pregnancy and Childbirth Fears
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Note from Katie: My good friend Genevieve Howland, aka Mama Natural, has one of the top resources for natural pregnancy. She just released her beautiful new book, The Mama Natural Week-By-Week…
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Was My Last Home Birth Illegal? (I Need Your Help!)
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In short… yes. My amazing last home birth experience that saved me from an 8-week c-section surgery recovery was not legal in my state. If you missed my birth story, the birth (of…
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9 Important Skills We Should Teach Our Kids
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Our children are the first generation in history to grow up in a world where the internet has always existed. Many of them know how to work an iPhone before they…
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6 Natural Teething Remedies for Baby (That Really Help!)
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At more than one point in time I have had as many as three children teething in my home. The older children are able to understand what is going on…
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Dear Parents, We Owe it To Our Kids to Stop Picky Eating
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Stop what? Well, lots of things actually: We need to stop buying unhealthy foods, feeding them too much sugar, and not giving them enough time outside to play. The thing…
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How to Make Your Own Cloth Baby Bibs
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I don’t know about you, but I find that most baby bibs available in the store are of poor quality. Unless you are willing to fork over an arm and…
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My Breech Water Birth Story
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Looking back over the past decade, I realize that even after giving birth to six children (read all of my birth stories starting here), I’ve never had what would be…
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12 Easy Recipes Kids Can Cook
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I sometimes am asked how I “get it all done” with kids, and the answer is that I don’t. Or at least I don’t every day, or with a patient…
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Transferring Microbes to Cesarean Babies for Gut Health
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I’ve seen multiple recent stories in the news about a “groundbreaking” new way that researchers are hoping to improve gut bacteria and immune health in cesarean babies. In short, they are…
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Why I Don’t Post About My Kids Online
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If you’ve read much on this blog, you might have noticed that I don’t post many details about my kids online, other than very general information about how my 4-year-old helped…
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Glucola Pregnancy Glucose Test: What I Do
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In my post about the pregnancy and prenatal care options I chose, I mention that I don’t take the pregnancy glucose test that requires drinking glucola (that syrupy orange or…
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Why I Chose Organic Baby Clothes
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This may be a controversial post, although I don’t intend it to be! This pregnancy, I’m making the switch to almost all organic baby clothes. This isn’t something I did…
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Can a Peanut Ball Shorten Labor?
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I recently attended a hospital birth as a doula and a nurse suggested a new technique to shorten labor that I had not seen used before: a peanut ball. I was…
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How to Prepare for a Successful VBAC
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Note from Katie: Several years ago I wrote about my own successful VBAC birth, and because of it, I’m often asked by expectant mothers what’s the best way to prepare…
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Can Eating Dates Shorten Labor?
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Don’t you love when something really simple and inexpensive is actually the most effective option? Like when simple natural ingredients make the best laundry detergent? Or when children ditch the…
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6 Creative Pregnancy Announcements
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Pregnancy is such an exciting time! From finding out that you are pregnant, through the various stages of pregnancy (some not so fun), to the birth of your child, there…
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How to Set up a Homeschool Classroom
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I’ve shared intimate details of my birth stories, revealed the dark side of blogging, and exposed the extent of my crunchiness writing about menstrual cups… I haven’t written much about homeschooling,…
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Top 7 Natural Baby Gifts for Summer
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It seems like most of my friends are pregnant of late… and for the first time in a long time, I’m not pregnant along with them, so I’m enjoying going to their…