We take it for granted today that babies and parents are together in all situations and that the parents have the overall responsibility for the the child and that the staff at a hospital is there to help and support their health situation.
A mother is born when her first child has arrived. The American Psychologist Daniel Stern has said something like that. The strong and good feelings for the child sometimes comes quickly and at times slowly. Baby’s need for sleep is enormous. About 15-18 hours per 24 hours the first month. That means you are not “on” all the time. More […]
Help your self to improve the quality and amount of sleep
1. reduce caffeine
2. early dinner
3.avoid electronic devises at evening and night
As I am always looking at mothers and their babies I saw a mother walking with her child in a push chair. The mother was walking in an awkward way, bent forward like a triangle. It really wasn’t a sight of beauty. My thoughts went back to the many occasions in public schools where I as a health visitor taught […]
To be twins is a certain kind of being together even when far apart!
Six years ago my beloved mother died in October. What I had feared as a child just happened. She said every autumn, that she had taken “the last Rose of the summer” from the garden. She was a rose herself. Always thinking about us her children and keeping her correspondence with many people all over family and friends. If she didn’t […]
To encourage your child to be able to express wishes will inevitably support his confidence.
Originally posted on From one Heart to Another:
As a young person and an adult I have suffered a lot from conseqvences of the dentist using amalgam or heavy metal in the teeths fillings. What made it worse was that my father loved to use a lot of strong delutions making a lot of different things in our cellar under the house. Wooden things and things made by metal. The result was that I never felt fresh. After many years I found out that the amalgam had to be taken out. in the 90-thies I lived in Sweden with my 4 children and Sweden was far ahead of Denmark in regard to understandig this health problem. Some years later the symphoms were coming back and I got new treatments by a very wise Danish doctor by American origin. He had a medication that could neutralize the amalgam poison.I will never forget a story he told his patients getting treatment with high dosis C.vitamin. He said that a diet of “gladiator kost” would help to minimize the risk of cancer from poisening us. “Kost” in Danish is food or diet. Scelets from strong gladiators had been found in antique graves and from analizing their bones these strong healthy young men had lived on a diet consisting of dry beans, chikpeas and lentils and porridge made from barley. I am always thinking of this, when I often make dishes from these foods. You…
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