Natural Babycare

Get your baby off to a great start with gentle and safe homemade lotions, powders, creams, and shampoos. In this informative guide to natural baby care, Colleen Dodt offers easy-to-follow aromatic recipes that make creative use of herbs and essential oils while avoiding harsh chemicals. With simple homeopathic remedies for a variety of ailments, Dodt provides plenty of suggestions for ensuring glowing health and creating a relaxing atmosphere that can enhance the magical bond between you and your baby.

Rediscover the Recipes Your Grandmother Once Used Natural and herbal healing is nothing new. For thousands of years people have relied on the gifts of nature to cure common ailments. Today, herbal remedies have become a popular alternative to conventional medicine and a way for families to address everyday woes themselves. In Natural & Herbal Family Remedies, Cynthia Black shares the tried-and-true remedies that have been with her family for generations. To this day she uses these natural and herbal treatments to care for her family, pets, and home. You’ll find recipes for treating the conditions common in every family, including diaper rash, cuts, bruises, stress, headaches, colds, and stomachaches, as well as natural beauty treatments for hair and skin care. Cynthia also provides recipes for nourishing foods, natural animal care, and herbal cleansers for the home. I

Combining anatomical knowledge with complementary therapies, this is a one-of-a-kind fully comprehensive guide to natural parenting. This gentle guide starts with planning your pregnancy and then takes you on a week-by-week journey through a healthy holistic pregnancy, active birth and the precious early months of being a parent. With chapters dedicated to caring for a newborn and looking after yourself both before and after birth, it offers personal insight, instruction and advice from Holly and Samantha who together run an award-winning business providing specially formulated organic products for babies. The authors are committed to empowering women through their pregnancy and birthing journey and the book is written in a sensitive and nurturing way that encourages women and makes them feel supported, from breastfeeding tips to birth experience inspiration. It also includes essential information on homemade skincare products and natural and natural remedies, nutritional guidance and exercise regimes. Each chapter of the book also contains a special section for the Natural Dad which explores the father's needs, how they can care for their partner and the baby and also look at ways to bond with their child. Personal insights make this book easy to relate to as it covers everything from increasing chances of conception, to caring for a new mother's post-natal welfare.

Treat your feet with your own homemade and luxurious all-natural creams, lotions, and soaks. Stephanie Tourles offers easy-to-follow herbal recipes that provide gentle, soothing solutions to common foot ailments — from corns, bunions, and rashes to chronic dryness and cold feet. Tourles also includes illustrated instructions for a relaxing foot massage and suggests a number of exercises designed to strengthen and stretch your feet. Take a natural step toward soft skin and strong soles, and discover how good your feet can feel.

A friendly, step-by-step parent's resource for safe, practical, and affordable baby care. No job is more important to you than taking care of your child. Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet understand this, and they want to help. For the last ten years, they've been a leading voice for raising children in natural, nontoxic, and environmentally friendly surroundings. Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet Guide to Natural Baby Care puts all of their pioneering research, advocacy, and support right at your fingertips. This wonderfully practical and accessible resource offers straightforward information and simple advice on how to reduce babies' and children's exposure to environmental toxins and embrace safer practices and "greener" products. Engagingly written and clearly organized for quick and easy reference, the book discusses: * caring for yourself during pregnancy * eliminating dangerous chemicals from your home * breast-feeding and bottle-feeding * affordable organic baby food * nontoxic rugs, paints, clothing, toys, and furniture * avoiding pollutants such as pesticides, dust mites, molds, microbes, chemical fumes, and cigarette smoke * safe soaps, shampoos, and lotions * environmentally sounder diapers, furniture, and other greener product choices.

Herbal remedies can provide safe and effective treatment for common childhood ailments ranging from diaper rash and teething to sore throats and conjunctivitis. In this Storey BASICS® guide, Rosemary Gladstar shows you how to prepare soothing salves, syrups, tablets, and teas that support children’s health. With simple instructions, clear dosage guidelines, and in-depth profiles of 24 medicinal herbs, you’ll soon be confidently easing your child’s achy flu with some hibiscus tea and using the healing properties of nettles to combat bouts of hay fever.

Experience the journey of fertility, conception, pregnancy and birth, naturally! Millions of people struggle with fertility problems. Most can overcome them with simple lifestyle changes and natural therapies. Written by two experts in the field of Natural Health, "Do You Want to Have a Baby?" covers optimal nutrition for conception, the best fertility-enhancing supplements, and the documented success of bodywork therapies. The book also addresses the heartbreak of miscarriage and how to improve your chances if you are at risk. The book includes a step-by-step diet for nutritional demands during pregnancy with special suggestions for women expecting multiples. It provides detailed recommendations on herbs you can use safely during pregnancy and nursing, and what to avoid. An expanded section on the special problems of pregnancy reveals the best natural therapies to reduce fatigue, haemorrhoids, morning sickness, labour pain, stretch marks, swollen ankles and many other common complaints. The book also explains your options for labour and delivery, how to avoid unnecessary medical interventions, and even offers special recommendations for losing post-pregnancy weight. Look for the bonus section on natural baby care!