PregnancyPregnancy Page came about due to the large amount of information that Marilyn Vine received on this subject. Falling pregnant is one of the most exciting times in a woman’s life or at least it was for me and my husband. I tried very hard to do all the right things for my unborn foetus and I wish I knew then what I know now! This is one of the reasons I have put this page together as many women seek information on the internet at this time of their life. I am inserting a bookmark here for Pregnancy Page so that if you are a regular visitor you will know where to find the latest information.
Are they affecting breast feeding of new borns? Pregnancy page brings an article from NaturalNews dated 15 August 2011 with regards to babies being forced onto formula feeding instead of breast feeding due to the IV fluids given to their mothers during the birth process. Read the article to learn more about this so that you are better informed and may be able to delay making your decision a further 24 hours in order to give the baby time to regulate its own hydration system. Pregnancy information page brings results from a new study on pregnant women in Northern California which finds they have the largest evidence of PBDE flame retardant exposures in pregnant women. They believe that this exposure can affect their fetus’s brain development. The study was published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. On 14 June 2011 Orthomolecular Medicine brings information with regard to undernourishment in pregnancy and the vulnerability of the fetus to type 2 diabetes. In other parts of this website I frequently cover the need for people to take responsibility for their own health. The minerals are deficient in most soils and therefore it is so important for people to use mineral supplementation. Most people don’t realise that for vitamins to be able to do their job they need the correct mineral to act as a catalyst for this to happen. Read the article and then check out the following links for more information. Pregnancy page brings information from NaturalNews dated 22 April 2011 with regards to three new studies which have revealed that our children are being “dumbed” down by pesticides. One of the main culprits appears to be organophosphate pesticides. Many women would like to breast feed their babies but for many reasons are unable to do so. We learn that infant formula is not always as easy for babies to digest as breast milk and nor will it contain some of the benefits of breast milk. We also learn that children born through the birth canal gets a boost to their immune system on the way through where babies born by caesarean miss out on this. Please read this article with regard to what you can do to overcome this. You will see that the use of a probiotic is recommended and below is information on a very good probiotic and how to use it for infants. Lacto Flora is available for purchase in Australia and New Zealand and if you contact me in the form at the bottom of the page I can advise you on how you can obtain this product. Lacto Flora was formulated by an Australian, John Ellerman, and John is very pro the use of Lacto Flora from birth for infants, who are not breastfed or have been born by caesarean. He believes that an infant’s natural bacteria is not complete until the age of 3. Lacto Flora comes in a sachet form of a probiotic and prebiotic and when you are ready to use adults open the tops of both sachets and combine and take. However, for infants and young children ONLY the probiotic part of the sachet is used. The reason being that the prebiotic is too harsh for young children’s bowels until they are three years of age. When they reach 3 years – it is recommended that they use one third of the adult dose. For young infants, he advises to take a teaspoon and dip it into the packet and what it picks up goes into the baby’s formula. Pregnancy page brings information dated 17 January 2011 with regard to a new study from the University of California, San Francisco which reveals that 100 percent of expectant mothers (sample size = 268) are contaminated with highly toxic synthetic chemicals. The study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, concluded, "Certain PCBs, organochlorine pesticides, PFCs, phenols, PBDEs, phthalates, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and perchlorate were detected in 99 to 100% of pregnant women." These chemicals are known to exhibit various harmful effects on human biology, covering everything from neurological and infertility problems to cancer and hormonal disorders. Many of the chemicals found in these women have been banned for not just years, but decades. Pregnancy page brings information on an article from Dr Mercola dated 31 December 2009 with regard to babies who were fed soy formula standing more of a chance of developing uterine fibroids. Dr Mercola goes further in saying that in his opinion “soy formula is the absolute most dangerous food you can give your baby.” He also believes that infants that have been fed soy formula have an increased risk of behavioral problems. Pregnancy page brings an article from Mike Adams of NaturalNews on how the United Kingdom public health system is strained to cope and yet they are still putting down home births which would help to relieve this situation. Pregnancy page brings information from NaturalNews dated 8 January 2011 regarding breastfed babies becoming stronger adolescents. The Journal of Nutrition says:....more evidence to the fact that breastfed babies end up healthier and more vibrant than babies that are not breastfed. Enrique Garcia Artero and his colleagues from the University of Granada determined that breastfeeding leads to increased muscle mass, greater athletic performance, and overall improved health as children grow into adolescence. The promoters of vaccines never seem to stop and they seem to be tireless in their targeting of pregnant women and young children. A vaccine over-rides the body’s natural immune system! Now they are speaking about a new vaccine for pregnant women to prevent against Group B Streptococcus (GBS). They plan to vaccinate all pregnant women and so about 70% of women who would not need this vaccine will also be included in the roundup! I personally feel positive that if a pregnant woman was in good health, eating correctly and not pre-packaged foods, organic fruit and vegetables and was watching what she was using on her body in the way of personal care and not drinking water contaminated with fluoride that she is more than likely to have a 100% healthy infant. After all isn’t this nature’s way before man got in on the act and started to contaminate everything that they touched! They are doing the same with the Gardasil Vaccine for women and young girls and I suggest you read what is happening in this regard by clicking on this link. Then click on the link below to see what they are proposing. Researchers have found that a baby’s immune system arises from an entirely different source to the mothers. This could be one of the most important YouTubes and articles that you read on this Pregnancy page. My own grandson was born in 1995 in New Zealand by caesarean at 35 weeks due to his mom’s high blood pressure. One of the things that the hospital where he was born did was to place the infant on his mother’s bare skin and they called it the “kangaroo” technique. This was the first time I had encountered this. Now read what the New York Times has to say: "Kangaroo care has been widely studied. A trial in a Bogota hospital of 746 low birth weight babies randomly assigned to either kangaroo or conventional incubator care found that the kangaroo babies had shorter hospital stays, better growth of head circumference and fewer severe infections ... A conservative summary of the evidence to date is that kangaroo care is at least as good as conventional treatment -- and perhaps better." For more information click on this link. Mike Adams from NaturalNews on 27 December 2010 brings information pertaining to children having better motor skills when mothers received the right nutrition during pregnancy: "Micronutrient inadequacy is a critical concern among pregnant women and young children throughout the world," explained Parul Christian, Dr.P.H., from Johns Hopkins University, and his colleagues in their study paper. "Gestation and the early postnatal period are considered sensitive periods for brain development, and nutritional deprivation during this period may lead to functional impairments." Mike Adams from NaturalNews brings a warning for future generations. It is thought that pre-natal exposure to BPA may cause female infertility. BPA is found in plastic food containers and many baby and water bottles and also lines the inside of many food cans and can leach into food. Disturbing news for Pregnancy page. For the life of me I cannot understand the mentality of anyone who would produce a baby formula that contains toxic ingredients! It is beyond belief! Click the link and read the article. 19 September 2010, I received important information from Dr Mercola on a test that all pregnant women should undertake to prevent early-onset severe preeclampsia. Please click on the link to read the article. I appreciate what a blast it must be to be able to see your baby growing in your womb. BUT I am sure you would not intentionally cause harm to your unborn child. Please read this new information on ultrasounds. Mike Adams of NaturalNews advises on 23 May 2010 the following: ”Ultrasound is extremely damaging to the health of any unborn child (fetus). The natural health community has been warning about ultrasound for years, but mainstream medicine, which consistently fails to recognize the harm it causes, insists ultrasound is perfectly safe and can't possibly harm the health of a fetus. Now, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is funding a project that aims to temporarily sterilize men by blasting their scrotums with ultrasound. The burst of ultrasound energy, it turns out, disrupts the normal biological function of the testes, making the man infertile for six months.”Click on the link below and read the full article. I have much delight in bringing you information on pregnancy. I have three children who were born very close together (3 under 31 months) and when the youngest was about 9 months old I remember saying to my husband “it will be sad not to have a baby in the house” but being a realistic person I realized you could not go on having babies year after year! I always felt that when your child started to achieve so many things in that first 12 months of their lives that you, yourself, looked at the world with different eyes. I felt I was looking at the world through the eyes of my babies and sensed the pride in their achievements when they sat up, stood for the first time and took their first steps. Pregnancy is such a wonderful state to be in! To all the women who may read this website, who are pregnant, all I can say is that I hope you enjoy your pregnancy as much as I did.Well my baby is now 41 years of age (2010) and since his birth so much has come to light and so much has been understood about the harm that can be caused to a foetus. Some of it good news and some of it not so good! I would like to share this with you in an endeavour to make sure that your pregnancy is a safe one, both for you and your baby, and that your baby is born healthy and will grow up with the best start in life. I sincerely believe that our health is entirely our own responsibility and if you are a mother or a father then that responsibility falls on you for the care of your children.I ask you all – please do not just accept what you are told – but go away and do your own research and not just from one source but from many different sources and then, and only then, make your decisions. Your life and the life of your child may depend on this decision. I consider this research even more important during pregnancy and the early formative years of your child. The Daily Telegraph on 16 July 2003 published an article called Shampoo can damage unborn sons“A common chemical used in a range of products from shampoo to plastics, may cause infertility in boys while they are still in the womb, it emerged yesterday. Mothers to be may unwittingly be putting their sons at risk of defective sex organs, low sperm counts and even cancer, by washing their hair or using make-up. Substances called phthalates used in shampoos, conditioners, skin lotions and make-up are linked to an increased rate of abnormalities and infertility. A two year experiment on rats showed that phthalates disrupt the male hormone testosterone during fetal development, doubling the rate of defects. Researchers believe that in some cases they may increase the risk of testicular cancer later in life.Phthalates are often not listed as ingredients so people do not even know they are using them. The number of infant boys suffering the two most common forms of genital abnormality has doubled in 50 years.Wikipedia tells us that: “Phthalates, or phthalate esters, are esters of phthalic acid and are mainly used as plasticizers (substances added to plastics to increase their flexibility, transparency, durability, and longevity). They are primarily used to soften polyvinyl chloride. Phthalates are being phased out of many products in the United States and European Union over health concerns.” I suggest that you click on the link below and see what Wikipedia has to say. It was interesting that under Legal Status the EU has restricted the use for children since 1999. Also be careful of the plastic toys that you buy your babies/children – especially the ones that they put in their mouths! Dr Mercola brings us a report of June 2009 “In June, food and chemical lobbyists met in Washington, DC to save the toxic plastic chemical BPA. Their internal meeting memos revealed a dangerous and unethical strategy to keep your family eating and drinking from BPA-laden containers, despite the mounting scientific evidence that exposure to even extremely low levels of BPA can impact health, particularly during early infancy.” Click on the link to read the article. This is extremely important to every individual if you want to maintain any reasonable level of health for you ad your family.Sadly this same scenario applies across many fronts in our everyday lives. For example:
Before you dismiss me out of hand with the information I am bringing to you, please go back to the main menu on this Healthymoneyvine website and you will see numerous pages on fluoride/fluoridation, vaccination, vaccine side effects, H1N1, Swine Flu, Gardasil, Teflon, Aspartame and many different pages on health news that comes to hand. All of these pages are continually updated with latest information that I receive and I believe should be passed onto my readers. THEN I ask you to personally seek information from other sources which will validate the information on this website. PLEASE do not search out information on fluoride from such places as:
Many of these agencies etc started out with good intentions but now there is overwhelming scientific data which is disproving their original stance/thoughts on fluoridation. For whatever their reasons albeit not prepared to say they were wrong in the first place or they are running a hidden agenda all I can say is that the countries that are fluoridating are HELL BENT ON FLUORIDATING EVERYONE NO MATTER WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES ARE TO HUMANS, FLORA OR FAUNA. On one of my fluoride pages I have several scientific clinical studies on the impact of fluoride on the IQ of the unborn foetus. Now in December 2010 a report on Serum Fluoride Levels and Children’s IQ. This report takes into account every known variable which might impact on the actual scientific research end results. So you now have a comprehensive, unbiased, scientific study implicating the lowering of children’s IQ from fluoride. Pregnancy is so easy for some and so difficult for others. More and more people are having difficulties in conceiving children and are seeking help at fertility clinics. We all should be asking ourselves why is the incidence of couples seeking help growing so quickly? On another issue entirely but one very relevant to pregnancy as well. Why are we seeing so many people these days with hip, shoulder and knee replacements? Could it be the fluoridation of our water? Drinking fluoridated water while pregnant could harm your baby’s skeletal system and will more than like damage the formation of their teeth and the first teeth will come through mottled and this is called dental Fluorosis. There is also research that shows that the first teeth are slow in erupting. I believe from all the research that I have read that dental Fluorosis is a sign that the body has skeletal Fluorosis. May I suggest that you click on the link below and read some of the information contained in the page. Can just drinking two cups coffee of day whilst pregnant affect fetal heart development and affect the entire life of the child? Read the link below to find out. Do you believe this? This is one of the reasons that I take the time to put together pages like Pregnancy so that more and more people become aware of what is going on. The FDA is now saying that it is safe for pregnant women, infants and babies to consume mercury! The FDA reviewed 200 scientific studies AND has now concluded that ”mercury fillings are safe for human health.Previously Consumers for Dental Choices sued the FDA with regard to fillings using mercury. This required the FDA to take off statements on mercury fillings being safe” from their website!What has changed now for the FDA to declare it is safe for everyone? Read the full article by clicking on the link below
Many people don’t even realise that many products on the market contain ingredients that can cause them, and especially their unborn babies, and children harm. Dr John Lee in his tape on Oestrogen Deception advises us that the personal care products being used by the mother can do damage to the foetus in the first 35 days of its life. Some of these ingredients are probably in products you have sitting on your shelves right now – products that you thought were perfectly safe. As a result of this your immune system becomes weaker and compromised over the years. Dr John Lee also tells us this may contribute to many of the degenerative diseases later on in life. You can give your kids a healthier start by taking the potentially harmful personal care and household products out of their lives from the very beginning. Please click on the link below and see just a few of the harmful ingredients that are contained in personal care products. Remember that what you put on your skin passes through the skin and into your organs and your blood stream. The skin IS NOT A BARRIER as once was believed and now it is understood that it is one of the quickest ways to get things into the bloodstream hence the nicotine patches and heart patches. Please don’t be dismayed by what you have read! This Pregnancy Page is not meant to scare you but to give you information so that you can make informed decisions throughout your pregnancy and also throughout your life! There are products available which are safe and in some cases very beneficial to you at the same time.I am involved in several MLM companies that can provide safe personal care products and also good nutritional supplements.One of these companies has a line of children’s products that are safe, gentle and effective. These products are non-toxic and free of the questionable ingredients commonly used in most children’s formulations. These products also contain therapeutic grade essential oils which can help children relax and unwind after a busy day. Check on the link below and see the products designed specifically for babies and children. Also the great range of supplements, personal care and essential oils which are available by clicking on both of the links below. I also have access to a range of sanitary products that come in food grade sterile package and are made from raw cotton and medical grade paper rather than recycled material. They are 100% Food Biodegradable and will biodegrade in 7-90 day unlike the products available at supermarkets and chemists which are made with materials that have been bleached (to make them white) possibly with chlorine compounds that contain traces of the organochlorine – dioxin. They are also made of recycled materials which may contain trace amounts of copper, lead and zinc. Many of these napkins can harbour bacteria as they are not sterile products. These sanitary products also contain an Anion Strip. What is an anion strip? It is a strip containing negative ions. “Negative ions increase the flow of oxygen to the brain; resulting in higher alertness, decreased drowsiness and more mental energy says Pierce J Howard, Phd, author of the Owners Manual for the Brain: Everyday Applications from Mind Brain Research and director of research at the Centre of Applied Cognitive Sciences in Charlotte N.C.” Negative ions have many healing properties:
Take the time and watch the YouTube below – 3 minutes. This YouTube is on a baby with what they call Scalded Skin syndrome which is a bacterial infection. In one week the Anion Strips healed this baby and what a difference from a child in terrible trouble and probably a lot of pain to a happy, smiling baby. Negative Ions have the ability to kill 99.9% of bacterial infection. If you would like further information on any of these products which incidentally are available in 30 different countries of the world, then please use the email form below. Pregnancy Page brings you information on toothpastes. Toothpaste is probably one of the most harmful of the products that children use simply because they eat it instead of spitting it out once they have cleaned their teeth! Some toothpastes contain warnings on the packet NOT THE TUBES to this effect and advise that you seek medical assistance if ingested! How many people read what is written on the packet – they don’t – they just take it out of the packet and put it in the bathroom ready for use! Very clever marketing! You can’t say they didn’t warn you! Here the Herald Sun brings us an article Danger Lurks at Home Everyday household products trigger untold family ills. Click on the link below and read the article. The article lists rooms in the house and ingredients associated with various products. Here is an article on “Five Steps to a healthy nursery or child’s room”. It is advising how you can create a haven for your new addition which has been built with love as well as safe materials. Click on the link below to learn more. Sheryl Walters on 13 June 2009 in Natural News tells us: ”You've been feeling a little "off" for a few weeks and think you may have the flu. But lo and behold, over the next month or so, you discover you have another reason for your "off" feeling. You are going to be a mother! After the shock wears off and you begin to see pregnancy as the wonderful thing it is, you wonder if you'll be able to survive the morning sickness you are experiencing. Remembering that morning sickness doesn't last the whole nine months isn't much help as you sit with your head held over the waste basket, feeling more than a little green. Well, take heart. There are many things you can do to help alleviate the symptoms of morning sickness without the harmful effects of drugs.” Click on the link below and learn more. Nutrition in your daily life is important but even more so in pregnancy. What do you know about nutrition? If not a lot then check some of the pages in this website as there are many places that this topic is covered in. Also covered are ingredients like:
Pregnancy page brings news from Reuben Chow on 5 April 2009 that a study recently published in the journal Pediatrics has revealed that women who do not have an adequate intake of Vitamin B12 during pregnancy are at greater risk of having a child with a birth abnormality called neural tube defect. Please click on the link below to read the full article. Pregnancy Page brings you information on how breastfeeding protects the hearts of mothers. This is written by Melissa Sokulski on 24 April 2009 in Natural News. Published in the May issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the study finds that if a woman breastfeeds for one year or more, she is ten percent less likely to have heart attacks, heart disease or strokes. Dr. Eleanor Bilma Schwarz, a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh and author of the study says, "Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women, so it's vitally important for us to know what we can do to protect ourselves." “The sad, disturbing truth about all this is that the infant formula industry has, for decades, engaged in highly deceptive marketing practices that sought to replace healthful human breast milk with harmful, factory-made infant formula products in order to generate profits. These corporations can't make money off mothers' breast milk, but they sure can earn big bucks off a canister of processed, chemically-contaminated cow's milk proteins, high-fructose corn syrup and various chemical additives. Some of the most outrageous crimes ever committed against the people of developing nations, in fact, have been committed by the infant formula corporations who actively sought to teach uneducated women that "breast milk is bad" while insisting that "modern women feed their babies formula." Read the link to learn more! Here we are being told that breastfeeding your baby could save a life! Kim Evans on 5 August 2009 in Natural News advises: ”According to the World Health Organization, breastfeeding babies exclusively for the first six months can save the lives of 13 percent of infants that die under five. Breast milk is what nature intended for infants to be eating, and eating in ways in accordance with nature is always to our benefit. But do you know why breast milk is so valuable? The answer is simple: Babies are born with only partially developed immune systems, and components of mother's milk help children build their immune system. Breast milk contains both healthy bacteria and medium-chain fatty acids, both of which are disease fighting and go a long way to protect us from outside threats.” I am pleased to bring you information in Pregnancy page for you to be able to assess the risks that you might be taking in having a home birth. “Deciding between a home and hospital birth is a difficult decision for some couples. Although a general perception exists that hospital births are safer than homebirths, this is actually not the case. An additional factor to consider is the general philosophical framework in which birth is placed in each setting. Most homebirth midwifes consider labor and childbirth to be a normal natural process; many doctors view childbirth as an event they must control in order to avoid catastrophe. When problems do arise at a homebirth, midwives are prepared to deal with them, and they know when hospital interventions are necessary. But the vast majority of births, when they are allowed to unfold physiologically, are straightforward and considered normal at the very least, if not beautiful and sacred by homebirth midwives.” Read the full article to learn more. Pregnancy page brings you a very good reason why not to have your baby in a hospital! Sherry Baker on 9 July 2009 in Natural News advises: ”It's scary enough to have a newborn baby in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) because he or she is premature or has health problems. But now there's reason to worry that many NICUs, places that are supposed to be dedicated to healing and protecting the youngest and most fragile of babies, are actually dangerous environments for neonates. According to a new study just published in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, superbug infections -- specifically antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections -- in US NICUs increased over 300 percent in less than ten years.” Click on the link and read the article. Dr Mercola asks ”Can these household chemicals crush your son’s masculinity?” “Elevated levels of two plastic-softening chemicals in pregnant women's urine are linked to less-masculine play behavior by their sons several years later, according to a study published in the International Journal of Andrology. Phthalates, which are used in everything from vinyl floors to plastic tubing and soaps and lotions, are pervasive in the environment and have increasingly become associated with changes in development of the male brain as well as with genital defects, metabolic abnormalities and reduced testosterone in babies and adults. A team of U.S. and British researchers posed a standard play questionnaire to the parents of 145 preschool-age children. Then they ranked the types of play on a scale from most masculine (such as play fighting or using trucks) to most feminine. An effect was identified among the sons of women with higher concentrations of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) and dibutyl phthalate (DBP) in their prenatal urine. On average, those boys scored 8 percent further away from the masculine end of the scale than other boys. Read the link Not long ago scientists thought that the placenta shielded cord blood — and the developing baby — from most chemicals and pollutants in the environment. But now we know that at this critical time when organs, vessels, membranes and systems are knit together from single cells to finished form in a span of weeks, the umbilical cord carries not only the building blocks of life, but also a steady stream of industrial chemicals, pollutants and pesticides that cross the placenta as readily as residues from cigarettes and alcohol. This is the human "body burden" — the pollution in people that permeates everyone in the world, including babies in the womb. In a study spearheaded by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) in collaboration with Commonweal, researchers at two major laboratories found an average of 200 industrial chemicals and pollutants in umbilical cord blood from 10 babies born in August and September of 2004 in U.S. hospitals. Tests revealed a total of 287 chemicals in the group. The umbilical cord blood of these 10 children, collected by Red Cross after the cord was cut, harbored pesticides, consumer product ingredients, and wastes from burning coal, gasoline, and garbage. Read the link.
Cord-Blood-Report_232_Contaminants Gail Ross on 10 February 2008 speaks about Death from birth defects: Fetal Exposure to Toxins out of control.”The leading cause of infant death in the U.S. results from congenital birth defects. They have become an increasingly prominent cause of infant death. In 1970, the deaths from birth defects were 15.1 percent and by 1997 the figure jumped to 22.1 percent. The increase in birth defects is significant. Three to five percent of all U.S. babies are born with birth defects according to CDC figures in 2004. Another way of looking at it is one in every thirty three babies has a birth defect. Birth defects can affect any part of the body such as heart defects or neural tubes. Causes may be from nutrient deficiencies to contaminants or a combination thereof.” Pregnancy page brings you the following YouTubes on women who thought that they were not toxic.Molly Gray – talks about her reaction to finding that she had toxic chemicals in her body Molly Gray – High Levels of mercury despite her best efforts during pregnancy Jen Pinter – I thought No way was I going to get the toxic results that I received Jen Pinter – Oh my phthalates Well Pregnancy Page became rather a long page with heaps of information. I hope you have enjoyed reading Pregnancy page and that you have gained some insight into taking care of yourself during your pregnancy and for taking care of your family.If you found the information in Pregnancy page of use to you would you mind referring this website onto your friends so that you can help them also? One of the reasons that I take the time to put this total website together and do pages like Pregnancy is to get information out to people world-wide. In hindsight I wish a lot of this information had been available when my babies were little as I know there would have been a lot of things that I would have done differently! |
