I was a health food, organic mostly, natural fiber, no vac kind of mother. But if I had a child today, I would be a million times more vigilant. Every single day there is another horror story about another product that is deadly. I am not just saying harmful, I am saying 'deadly'. And it starts long before the pregnancy.
Just to name a few things; Aspartame (thank you Monsanto) can cause birth defects, infertility and other shit. Goodbye chewing gum, diet drinks, sweeteners. Roundup on your food or garden can cause these things and worse. (thank you Monsanto). Tampax has the same crap that roundup has. So, before you get pregnant, start now cleaning up your act. Not to mention all the things we all know about: smokes, drugs, booze. We know that. I am thinking about the million things we don't think about.
Household products and cosmetics and body products are chemical poisons, almost all of them. Think about it. Almost all of them are poisons. The good news is that today there are healthy alternatives, even organic dental floss. But the thing is for some reason they are more expensive. (you can figure that out). But at the same time, if you take a moment to look to the past million years or so before the chemical shit storm happened after WW11, there are very cheap, very effective, nontoxic alternatives. Baking soda, lemon, vinegar, bees wax... think "How did grandma or great grandma do it?" My grandma used newspaper and vinegar to clean windows. Everyone used baking soda to get rid of odors. Use your imagination. Or buy all natural, non gmo products. Or both.
Then the pregnancy thing. My caveat here: I am talking about healthy low risk pregnancies. In other cases, get the best medicine you can. I wonder about all the ultrasounds. What the fuck? Before ultrasounds there were none. Billions of kids are born without them. Billions. And the birth outcomes in countries that use them (Like USA) have shamefully bad statistics. Ultrasounds are shooting high frequency sound waves into the fetus. There has been little talk about what this might do to the development of the baby. When radiation was first used, it was perfectly safe. Oops, it didn't turn out to be that safe after all. Birthing protocols can range from wonderful to insane and change all the time. The fetal heart monitor has caused millions of unnecessary c-sections. Pitocin is being investigated for possible harmful effects on child behavior. Question everything.
Question the vitamin K injection. New news out about that. Question eye drops for the baby. If you don't have a STD are these at all necessary? Question the painful cringe of the baby having a photo taken the first second they are alive. Then each and every vaccine and its timing needs to be looked at very carefully and the combos and the ingredients. Does your nursing baby need a hepetitus shot? No, maybe when she goes to Thailand some day. Tell the doc you'll come back for that one.
Then the plastic thing,,plastic bottles, plastic nipples, plastic fake milk (look at the list of what is in safe formula), plastic toys, plastic diapers, plastic teething things, plastic fabrics, plastic mattress covers (smell them and you now something is very wrong just like that new shower curtain liner. No plastic for your new baby. Don't put their stuff in plastic bags. No plastic. It all gives off toxins and if anyone says anything different, they are either lying or ignorant.
Make your own baby food. It couldn't be easier if you have a stove and a fridge. Don't feed them anything with GMO or pesticides, herbicides or other crap in it. People made baby food for millions of years before supermarkets and factory foods were created (not so long ago). How hard is it to make a bowl of oatmeal or grind up a carrot.
There are babies being born today who have cancer when they are born. We have to stop this and it is not something that I would wait for the FDA or the food industry to sort out. It has to be us. Make it the coolest thing in the world to have no chemicals in your house that will poison your children. Wash diapers if you have to. Brush your teeth with baking soda if you have to. It is all so simple that the poorest peasants in the middle of nowhere have figured it out.
This isn't my whole rant I could go on and on. Flouride, iodized salt, all this stuff has problems, big problems. I am 71 years old so I am not in the market for baby stuff, but it is really frightening me how crazy we are to poison our children a hundred ways every day. Start now. Start with shampoo and soap and laundry detergent. Then keep changing and innovating and demanding no poisons for your kids. Even frigging cough drops have aspartame, dye, artificial flavors, corn syrup and more crap. Stop it now. Have that healthy happy child you deserve. The cost of taking care of a sick child is not worth a little extra care now.
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