Category: Child Safety

Benefits Of Baby Massage On Different Regions Of The Body

May 16, 2013 Posted by Luschka under Alternative Medicines and Remedies, Attachment Parenting, Child Health, Child Safety, Consistent Care
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Baby massage is a hugely beneficial tool for parents and carers to use as a natural and instinctive way of relieving tension, pain or discomfort.  Have you ever sat with someone crying, and rubbed their back? This is natural and instinctive comforting. Have you ever had a child in pain from constipation and rubbed their…

Why Doesn’t Music Come With Age Restrictions?

November 22, 2011 Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Child Safety, On Mama's Mind
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I grew up in a home devoid of pop music. We listened to a lot of Christian music – think Amy Grant and Twila Paris – Jewish music and Christian children’s tapes. In my teens I ‘rebelled’ against this and started listening to Christian Adult Contemporary music  - have you ever heard of Carmen? –…

A Rose By Any Other Name…

October 20, 2011 Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Child Safety
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Regular readers might have noticed something strange…. we’ve changed our daughter’s name to Ameli. There are two things I should explain about this action: It’s taken almost two years to come to the decision, and there are plenty of reasons for it. One is that I’ve been thinking a lot about security and safety. While…

The Problem With Principles

June 7, 2011 Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Child Safety, Current Events
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I’ve been in a quandary lately. While I would love to live in a world where my daughter could wear only organic clothing, eat only organic food, play in the garden all day with her wood only toys and support only local and parent-run small businesses, this is simply not our lives.

How Safe Is Childproofing In The Long Run?

March 3, 2011 Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Child Safety
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Google ‘childproof your home’ and you’ll come up with a list as long as your arm with reasons why you should childproof, how you should childproof and what you can buy to childproof. There’s very little, however, on the dangers of childproofing your home. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not recommending that you allow…

Co-Sleeping and Breastfeeding

January 25, 2011 Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Child Safety, Cosleeping, Night Time Parenting
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A reader asked me to write about co-sleeping and breastfeeding. Although this is something we’ve been doing since around one and a half hours after Ameli’s birth – she was born at 4.40am, we were asleep in our bed by six – it’s still a hard topic to write about because I’ve never really thought…

News Of The Week: Everyday Chemicals May Be Harming Kids

November 13, 2010 Posted by Luschka under Child Health, Child Safety, Current Events
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If I had a £1 for every time I had said to people ‘just because there’s a smiling baby on the cover doesn’t mean it’s good for your baby’, well, I’d have a lot more money in my wallet. So I was absolutely thrilled this week to find a CNN article confirming what I have…

Meducation for Mums Talks Nurofen

September 10, 2010 Posted by Luschka under Alternative Medicines and Remedies, Attachment Parenting, Child Safety
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I was recently invited to a seminar on child health sponsored by Nurofen, Bonjela and Karvol. The two speakers were Sarah Jarvis, a GP, and Dawn Kelly, a health visitor.

Guidelines for Safe Formula Feeding

August 28, 2010 Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Child Safety, Reading and Resources
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I am unapologetically pro-breastfeeding: I think it is absolutely normal and everything else is sub-standard. But I am also passionately pro babies being safe, and when a mother cannot or chooses not to breastfeed her child, or for whatever reason makes the decision to formula feed, I think it is essential that she is equipped…

If Pretending Made It So: We Need Education Not Denial

August 27, 2010 Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Child Safety, Cosleeping
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Information. It is so vital to our survival. Misinformation, on the other hand is a killer. Can you imagine if you were told that a red traffic light meant ‘go’? What chaos would reign in your life, if you lived very long at all? I have been sorely disturbed in recent months by the information…


Information. It is so vital to our survival. Misinformation, on the other hand is a killer. Can you imagine if you were told that a red traffic light meant ‘go’? What chaos would reign in your life, if you lived very long at all?

I have been sorely disturbed in recent months by the information and lack thereof surrounding the sleeping, feeding and care of our babies if it doesn’t fall strictly in line with the latest guidelines, based on the latest research.
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