7 Natural Baby Care Recipes

All natural homemade baby skin care recipes

I love using natural products for all of my personal care, cleaning and household needs, but if you’re not ready to jump on the DIY deodorant and toothpaste bandwagon just yet, at least consider using all natural products on your kids! Most kids are exposed to a scary number of chemicals on a daily basis, [...]

Luxurious Homemade Lotion Recipe

Homemade Lotion Recipe- all natural and easy to make

If you are still using the cancer-in-a-bottle store bought lotion on yourself or your family, there are super easy natural alternatives! In fact, this recipe is incredibly simple to make and all the ingredients are available here. It only has three basic ingredients and literally takes ten minutes to make! You can customize your lotion [...]

Why We Cloth Diaper

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  I have to confess… for everything else I do that is natural and organic, I was late on getting on the cloth diapering bandwagon… and I’m kicking myself for it now. For our first two children, I used disposables and didn’t think anything of it. I thought cloth diapering was a thing that our mothers [...]

Optimal Diet and Nutrition for Healthy Pregnancy

Diet and Nutrition for Healthy Pregnancy

Oh, pregnancy…. that wonderful time when everyone offers unwanted advice and your body changes in ways you didn’t know possible. Since I’m now in the third trimester of pregnancy myself, and starting to really “feel” pregnant, I though I would offer my own completely unsolicited advice for a healthy pregnancy. (If you’re pregnant, you are [...]

A Baby, Chickens and A Challenge

Thanks to everyone who has asked how my pregnancy is going. At 24 weeks, everything is wonderful and I am feeling great. I am still hoping and preparing for a V-Bac (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean) after an unexpected cesarean due to undetected placenta previa with my last pregnancy. (If you ever want a long read, [...]

Fitness for Healthy Pregnancy

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[Enjoy this guest post by the awesome Charlotte Anderson of The Great Fitness Experiment and author of The Great Fitness Experiment: One Year of Trying Everything. She is a joy to read, so please check out her great blog!] “You can’t do squats or lunges, it’ll make you go into preterm labor” “I’ve never seen [...]

Natural Homemade Baby Wipes Recipe – Easy and Inexpensive!

Easy Homemade baby wipes recipe

Ever checked the ingredients on your baby wipes? Yeah, I hadn’t either. Cosmetics Database gives you a complete list and a hazard rating of the different brands of wipes. For instance: Pampers Clean and Go Wipes Contain: Water, Disodium EDTA, Xanthan Gum, Caprylic Triglyceride, PEG 40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Benzyl Alcohol, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate, Sodium Hydroxymethlyglycinate, [...]