Beyond Breastmilk Starting Solids

The Natural Weaning Age of Humans

When the Doctor says GER
Understanding Reflux

Cosleeping & SIDS Review of the Studies

Will Breastfeeding Give Your Child Cavities?

Feeding a Premature Baby

Stress in Infancy:
What Damage? 

Bottle Nursing

Formula Doubles Infant Death 

When It Has to be Formula

Attachment Parenting What is it?

The Chemistry of Attachment 

Cosleeping: It's Natural and Safe

Cosleeping & SIDS Fact Sheet

Cosleeping in the Media: Campaign of Disinformation

Crying and Caring

Colic and Reflux

The Dangers of Cow's Milk

Iron Supplements for Breastfed Baby?

"Milking Your Bones" Calcium & Osteoporosis

Vitamin K at Birth:
To Inject or Not

"I Get Letters"

Visit Dr. Palmer at Mothering's Experts Panel

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A tender discussion of the importance of responding to and holding infants.

 

"Children Who Get Flu Vaccine Have Three
Times Risk Of Hospitalization
For Flu, Study Suggests"

Mayo Clinic researchers studied children ages 6 months to 18 years of age from 1996 through 2006 and found that children receiving the seasonal flu vaccine had triple the risk of being hospitalized with the flu as those not being vaccinated. The study findings were reported May 19, 2009, at the105th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society, in San Diego.

Read report of Mayo Clinic study in Science News Daily

From Reuters

CDC Recommends that All U.S. Children Receive Annual Seasonal Flu Vaccines

Two months after a Mayo Clinic report of a tripled risk for hospitalization for children receiving the flu vaccine, the CDC announces a new recommendation that all children should receive the vaccine.

Bonding Matters:
The Chemistry of Attachment


Human babies are born helpless, needing to be entirely cared for and protected. Luckily, they are born with all the necessary tools and "instructions" to attain such care for themselves, and to become a loved and loving part of their family and society. The ingrained neural and hormonal interactions provided for parent and child to assist them in this process... More

Yet Another Study Shows...

Giving Antibiotics to Children for Ear Infections Increases the Risk of Infection Return

The Baby Bond reveals how greater return of infections often results from the use of antibiotics for middle ear infections in young children; including enlightening discussion of the most severe potential result of using antibiotics: masked mastoiditis.

In June of 2009, a double blind placebo controlled trial of 240 Dutch children aged 6 months to 2 years of age showed that about half again as many returns of infection occurred in the children given antibiotics as in those given placebos.
"Dr. Palmer's book exhaustively lists the scientific evidence behind attachment parenting, breastfeeding and the reality of food allergies… Dr. Palmer shows how the establishment of science-conquering-nature has caused unnecessary suffering and heartache to parents and babies alike." More: Vegetarian Baby and Child "Dr. Linda Palmer's rebuttals of current mainstream child-rearing trends (artificial infant food, cow's milk consumption) do not stop at their negative impact on infants but rather create a compelling and well-cited argument for their links with lifelong negative complications." More ( for those with journal access): Journal of Human Lactation