Psstt.. every Wednesday I write a post called “Why I” and last week I wrote one on Why I am Having a Home Birth — just in case you missed it. I’m a hard sell when it comes to “coincidences.” Maybe there is a small percentage of the time that coincidences are simply occurrences without a connection,…
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Essential oils. You’ve heard about them, right? Maybe your friend is starting with essential oils, maybe your favorite blogger creates recipes around essential oils, or maybe you’ve seen a photo of someone on your Instagram feed putting essential oils in their food to flavor it. But do you really know about essential oils? I’m talking about…
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I just spent an amazing week up in Buffalo, NY with my little sister and her new baby, Willow. Prior to this, I haven’t seen my sister in over 2 years so as you can imagine it was a much, much needed trip. It was so crazy for me to see my little sister as…
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Oh, friend. This day was coming and I knew it was but I just didn’t want to face it. As you may know, Andrew is super sensitive to mosquito bites. I had concluded that Andrew has “Skeeter Syndrome.” The research I did said people who have skeeter syndrome are either elderly or young children with…
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They seriously have got it all wrong in the mainstream system when it comes to proper nutrition for children. Like, I knew that the food system is messed up and they promote feeding children low-fat dairy products and such but I never really saw first hand what type of foods are actually being served or…
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Once I understood the importance of specific nutrients needed for repairing bone, I was on a mission to concoct a bone-healing, anti-inflammatory smoothie. The key was finding ingredients that melded well together and was kid-approved! I found that turmeric is one of the most potent anti-inflammatory foods but because it is not readily bio-available, it…
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Spending half of Christmas in the ER is not something every parent envisions their Christmas to be but unfortunately, that was us this year! It started off as a normal Christmas morning; Andrew got to open and play with his presents, Grandma & Big Daddy came over to watch Andrew’s reaction when we surprised him…
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It’s been a whirlwind of a journey the past few years: everything from becoming a newlywed, new parent, move across the country (and back), unexplained chest pains… things have been crazy up in the life of Loriel! If you did not read my previous posts about my chest pains, I invite you to read them…
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Constipation is something that has haunted for me a long time; accompanied with straining and hemorrhoids. I wanted to share my constipation experiences with you (I’m throwing myself out there for you guys) and what I have found to make it easier for me to go to the bathroom. I took Metamucil for a while…
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We’ve all heard it before: “Breast is best.” It seems our society automatically presumes that just because a mother is breast feeding, her baby is immune from all things formula fed babies are prone to and are sort of “shielded” from any harm. No one really talks about what a mother eats (or should be…
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This is the second and last part to the post Why Am I Still Having Chest Pains? The Unexpected Discovery. ………………… Un-freaking-believable! The earring in my ear was causing all this pain!? Dr. Williams told me that particular spot (forward helix) can cause major disturbances in the body including affecting the stomach and external genitals…
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A few months ago I wrote a post called Finally, Answers To My Unexplained Chest Pain & Gut Issues. To sum it up to you in this post, I started having really bad chest pains that only became noticeable if my body temperature was elevated (standing outside in the hot sun, sweating, etc). It got…
Read MoreIs it just me or whenever you walk past the candle section in a store your senses shift into overdrive and you walk out of there with a minor headache? I personally can not handle that particular section in stores so I tend to stay far away from it. All the artificial fragrances mixed together…
Read MoreFor the past 12 months or so (heavily emphasizing on the past 5 months) I have been having unexplained chest pains and serious gut problems. About a year ago, I resumed my SCUBA diving teaching (a little too early after I had my son) and experienced acute chest pains; they were directly in my heart….
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I do have to say, it feels pretty good to be able to fit into your pre-pregnancy clothes without doing any kind of dieting or exercising. I tried on some pants that I haven’t been able to wear in what seems like 2 years and they fit- they even had a little extra room! We…
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