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"The Baby Boom was seen as another important factor driving prosperity and the market, because people needed to spend money on their babies (just as the grown-up babies themselves, despite having fewer children, are now perceived as bidding up stock prices as they save for their retirement): "It is this boom in babies that is being counted on now to make the latest 'new era' different from the last one. Families are growing bigger. Good roads and fine automobiles are opening the countryside. The urge is toward suburban living and for houses with three or four bedrooms instead of one or two." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The entire history of baby formula has been the history of one overlooked nutrient after another: Liebig missed the vitamins and amino acids, and his successors missed the omega-3s, and still to this day babies fed on the most "nutritionally complete" formula fail to do as well as babies fed human milk. Even more than margarine, infant formula stands as the ultimate test product of nutritionism and a fair index of its hubris. This brings us to one of the most troubling features of nutritionism, though it is a feature certainly not troubling to all." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Now I enjoy life more with my husband, daughter, and twin babies. I look forward to my happy life with them and watching my children grow and learn. Peace and loving-kindness—Nina. Reading Nina's entry in our follow-up survey gave me goosebumps. I wept with joy as I told my husband about Nina's efforts to conceive, and the twin babies that were born out of positivity. He knew what her story meant to me. Years ago, he and I had also struggled to conceive. As a scientist to my core, I had adopted a very data-driven approach to conception. I charted my temperature." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"More than two thirds of all babies with MDS are born to mothers who inject drugs. Even 10 percent of the hemophiliac MDS cases inject drugs.62 Thomas sheds more light on Duesberg's note about babies by noting the CDC reports between 1982 and 1991, where there were 1,328 MDS-sickened babies recorded in the United States. Of these, 1,260 (95 percent) came from "mothers at risk," that is, largely, drug-abusing ones. Thomas adds, "Babies born to drug abusing mothers who do not have HIV also die from the same diseases [as HIV infected babies], but they are not considered MDS victims." - Gary Null, James Feast, AIDS: A Second Opinion (Get the book.)

"Resuscitation is more likely to be attempted on extremely premature babies born in the United States than in many other countries. The extremely premature babies on whom resuscitation is unsuccessful are then counted as infant deaths, whereas they are counted as fetal deaths when resuscitation has not been attempted. A way around this problem is to look at mortality rates only after one day or one week of life. On that measure the United States' position improves only from 24 to 20. United States today can expect to live the equivalent of about 69." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Researchers delivered premeasured formula bottles containing milk that was either diluted or normal to the babies' mothers, not telling them what type of formula the babies were being fed. Researchers encouraged the mothers to allow the babies to decide how much milk to consume. The babies given diluted milk drank more, apparently to adjust their caloric and fat intake. Remarkably, both groups of babies ingested roughly the same number of calories and fat grams.1 Another infant study added further credence to the innate nutritional intelligence in humans." - Doreen Virtue, Ph.D., Constant Craving: What Your Food Cravings Mean and How to Overcome Them (Get the book.)

"I don't believe in sleep schedules for newborns and babies or even toddlers. But I tell all parents that from age three, children need to have a certain bedtime. I encourage parents to have lots of nighttime contact with their babies. I encourage them to be flexible when their toddlers need them in the middle of the night. But I also encourage them to promote good, long sleep intervals in school-age children. Activities before bedtime should be relaxing to allow a child to "turn off" the buzz of the day." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"That omega-3 s play an important role in mental function has been recognized since the 1980s, when it was found that babies fed on infant formula supplemented with omega-3 s scored significantly higher on tests of both mental development and visual acuity than babies receiving formula supplemented only with omega-6. Could it be that the problem with the Western diet is a gross deficiency in this essential nutrient? A growing number of researchers have concluded that it is, and they voice frustration that official nutritional advice has been slow to recognize the problem." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "The entire history of baby formula has been the history of one overlooked nutrient after another: Liebig missed the vitamins and amino acids, and his successors missed the omega-3s, and still to this day babies fed on the most "nutritionally complete" formula fail to do as well as babies fed human milk. Even more than margarine, infant formula stands as the ultimate test product of nutritionism and a fair index of its hubris. This brings us to one of the most troubling features of nutritionism, though it is a feature certainly not troubling to all." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Researchers now realize that one of the chief reasons breast-fed babies get so many fewer infections than formula-fed babies is that mother's milk tends to promote superior growth of beneficial bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, whereas store-bought formulas have little such beneficial effect.) Anyway, the net result is that in a breast-fed baby, beneficial bacteria (such as bifidobacteria) control over 90% of the intestinal tract." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"All this leads to severe lymphatic congestion, as is often seen in the bloated stomachs of formula-fed babies.9 The babies suffer from intestinal colic. Instead of being lean, their faces are moon-like, and their arms, legs, and stomach are puffy and bloated. These babies are susceptible to colds and other infections, have sleeping problems, and tend to cry a lot. The undigested milk or milk formula may be responsible for the development of gallstones in the livers of very young children." - Andreas Moritz, The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse: An All-Natural, At-Home Flush to Purify and Rejuvenate Your Body (Get the book.)

"Epidemiological studies in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and India also show that low-birth-weight babies who have fast catchup growth in early childhood are more likely than their peers to develop obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and/or heart disease. It's also clear that African Americans have low-birth-weight and very-low-birth-weight babies more than twice as often as European Americans." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Babies equate the mother's milk with survival, love, and peace of mind. When babies don't get mother's milk, they may settle for a substitute—a bottle or a pacifier, for instance. The pacifier has no warmth, taste, or nutritional value, but it's close enough to that primal experience to soothe the infant. It's natural for infants to continuously seek comfort from the mother's soothing presence, and easy enough, later in life, to make food the substitute pathway back to that comforting state of mind. The first, and primal, regulator of your mood was your mother." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) "And as babies, we first experience the frustration of not always getting what we want when we want it. This frustration creates a certain degree of pain. babies cry in response to pain, and usually get the frustration allayed fairly quickly—the bottle or breast arrives, the blanket or toy is found. As we get older, though, we're on our own in resolving frustration. Our needs increase, as do our desires, and it takes increasingly more work, diligence, and audacity to find the passion and pleasure and fulfillment we long for." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Some women who had taken the sedative during their pregnancies were giving birth to babies who were grotesquely deformed. The infants suffered from what is called pho-comelia, which comes from the Greek words phoke, meaning "seal," and melos, meaning "limb." The bones in the infants' arms or legs were so grossly short that their hands or feet appeared to sprout directly from their torsos like the flippers of a seal. Some of the babies also lacked openings for their ears or bowels." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Following the collapse of Nicolae Ceausescu's dietatorship in Romania in 1989, Western doctors discovered 150,000 Romanian orphan babies who, like Spitz's foundling children, had been physically well cared for but left to languish without any affection or cuddling. Again like Spitz's foundling children, the Romanian babies had suffered enormously as a result. All were physically stunted and were both cognitively and emotionally impaired. Stress seemed to be at least part of the physiological explanation for this: researchers found that the children's Cortisol levels were grossly skewed." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Researchers now realize that one of the chief reasons breast-fed babies get so many fewer infections than formula-fed babies is that mother's milk tends to promote superior growth of beneficial bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, whereas store-bought formulas have little such beneficial effect.) Anyway, the net result is that in a breast-fed baby, beneficial bacteria (such as bifidobacteria) control over 90% of the intestinal tract." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Furthermore, the babies who wore disposables were more likely to have severe rashes. babies using rubber pants tended to have rashes more than babies using cloth diapers alone, but the rashes were not severe {Journal of Pediatrics, September, 1979). Moisture is trapped inside by both rubber and plastic, inviting bacteria to proliferate. Presumably, if babies wearing such diapers are changed more frequently, there would be fewer rashes." - Mark Bricklin, The Practical Encyclopedia of Natural Healing (Get the book.)

"And yet, those are the very organisms that we inject through vaccines into our babies and our small children, with immature, underdeveloped immune systems. Many are given all at the same time. But instead of bioterrorism, we call it "protection." Reflect a moment on that irony. Vaccine injuries are reported to be "rare," but only because very few reactions are "accepted" by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as being caused by vaccines." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Adequate zinc is associated with healthier babies and easier deliveries. Iodine deficiency can cause brain damage, especially when it occurs in the fetuses of pregnant women after the first trimester and in children of up to three years of age. Iodine is critical for the growth and development of the brain and central nervous system. Stunted growth, mental retardation, and cretinism can affect the children of pregnant women with inadequate iodine intake. Pregnant and breastfeeding women can ensure adequate iodine by taking a daily prenatal supplement providing 150 meg of iodine." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Never give honey to babies less than one year of age, as it has been associated with infantile botulism. CONSTIPATION Although constipation is rarely seen in breast-fed babies, it is not abnormal for breast-fed babies to have bowel movements as infrequendy as one in seven days. Treat a breast-fed infant for constipation only if the child appears to be in pain and cries during the bowel movement. Indications for the treatment of constipation in bottle-fed babies and young children include: Painful passage of stools." - David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG, Medical Herbalism: The Science Principles and Practices Of Herbal Medicine (Get the book.)

"Mercury exposure is most damaging to developing fetuses and nursing babies, where it can cause severe problems with nerve development. Mercury consumption is also damaging to children and adults. Mercury damages the central nervous system, endocrine system, kidneys, and adversely affects the mouth, gums, and teeth. Most of the exposure to mercury in America is from eating fish and shellfish. Fish and shellfish accumulate a highly toxic organic form of mercury called methylmercury. Quiz Refer to the text in this chapter if necessary." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"I wept with joy as I told my husband about Nina's efforts to conceive, and the twin babies that were born out of positivity. He knew what her story meant to me. Years ago, he and I had also struggled to conceive. As a scientist to my core, I had adopted a very data-driven approach to conception. I charted my temperature. I read books on the science of fertility. Taking that approach, I'd been on that same emotional roller coaster Nina had been. Each month when I failed to conceive, I was devastated. Then something hit me." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"Editor's Note: Experts worry that babies who are dusted regularly will inhale particles from the powder, which could lead to congestion or lung problems. "And babies have died from breathing in powder when they pick up a bottle of the stuff and put it to their mouths, "Dr. Lane says. "We tell nannies that if Mom or Grandma insists on powder, to sprinkle just a bit in their hand first, then rub it on the baby," Luttkus says. Parents like their babies to smell like babies; that is, like baby powder, she explains. "A little cologne that smells like baby powder would be safer." - Gale Maleskey, Brian Kaufman, Home Remedies: What Works: Thousands of Americans Reveal Their Favorite Home-Tested Cures for Everyday Health Problems (Get the book.)

"Supporting this theory is the Food and Drug Administration's requirement that baby formula manufacturers include long- and short-chain RNAs in their products so babies have fewer cases of diarrhea. RNAs seem to be essential nutrients especially when the body is under physiological stress. "This information was really only uncovered in the last 10 to 15 years, and again, Beljanski provided so much of the research findings first and most accurately," said Dr. Grutsch. "Today, the data are overwhelming." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"The extremely premature babies on whom resuscitation is unsuccessful are then counted as infant deaths, whereas they are counted as fetal deaths when resuscitation has not been attempted. A way around this problem is to look at mortality rates only after one day or one week of life. On that measure the United States' position improves only from 24 to 20. United States today can expect to live the equivalent of about 69.3 healthy years of life, while children born in the other 22 industrialized countries can expect an average of 2.5 additional years of healthy life." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Breathing problems in babies are like chest pains in adults," the doctor said. "You can't wait around." With her fear mounting by the moment, Peggy looked down at Loukas, just ten months old, as he struggled to push away the nebulizer mask that the doctor had placed on his face. It wasn't helping him. He was still wheezing, and his chest was retracting spasmodically, as he fought to force air into his inflamed lungs. Loukas had woken up that morning with an upper respiratory infection, a common occurrence for him, and that was the only reason Peggy had brought him here." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

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