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Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 1:30 AM
 December is here and it’s time for my yearly PSA on
protecting your baby from respiratory viruses.
When there is a newborn in the house, everyone wants to come over to meet
the baby!! They are pretty hard to
resist. Bruss and I are big advocates for our children, especially the youngest members
of our family, during cold and flu season. Our Night Owl had a
life-threatening experience with RSV when he was three months old, and that has
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman: Posted on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 12:56 PM
It’s amazing how the “can’t live without” products end up
being the little ones. I recently had a
friend call me, looking for the “wow” gift she could purchase as a baby shower
gift. I laughed out loud because my
favorite, go-to gift is a “wow” gift – just not the way she was thinking
of. She asked me which one baby product I
could not live without, and it’s THIS ONE. As a matter of fact, I had just pulled it to
the front of our bathroom closet the day she called in preparation for the cold
and flu season. |
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Friday, April 06, 2012 9:14 AM
Hello, students and friends…Happy Passover and Happy Easter
to all.
Here is a picture of our kiddos taken in time to share for
the holidays…some days, I still cannot believe we are parents to four children!
©2012 Marriott Photography Which brings me to today’s topic – one size fits all
parenting. I saw a picture on Facebook
that raised my red flag radar. As an
advocate of natural birth and attachment parenting, I love seeing things that
reinforce my beliefs. At the same time,
I am concerned when people take those beliefs too far and attribute authority
that stretches the truth. |
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Posted on Friday, November 18, 2011 1:09 PM
 On TuesdayI posted some ideas to avoid birth trauma, mental
anguish and physical distress during pregnancy, childbirth and
breastfeeding. It is by no means a
complete list, however it’s a good starting point for thought and action.
As a general rule, the fewer interventions you have during
your birth, the easier your breastfeeding relationship will be to
establish. This leads to a mom who
recovers from her birth experience feeling competent in her abilities to
nourish her child. |
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Friday, November 11, 2011 2:57 AM
 | RSV experience This is on day four of hospitalization - many of the tubes had already come out. |
|  | RSV experience This is on day four of hospitalization - many of the tubes had already come out. |
|  | RSV experience Checking out all the meds and straightening out the lines. |
|  | RSV experience Day 5 - Breathing is stabilized and now we just need oxygen to keep the levels up in his body. |
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As
we enter cold and flu season, I am compelled to write about RSV and some
protective measures you can take to protect infants from this vicious
virus. |
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:58 PM
 We are back from our babymoon! It has been a wonderful five weeks of
enjoying our baby instead of doing all of the regular day-to-day
activities. I didn’t do any blog writing
or homeschooling through this time…we are slowly getting back to our routine. We have continued on with our class series
and all of our students have seen our baby grow into her 12-pound, 1-ounce
weight and 24 inch length in the last five weeks. Breast-milk is nature’s perfect food!!
Which brings me to one of the topics that we covered briefly
at the end of class last night. |
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Jacqueline Norris, CD, PCD: Posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 11:06 AM
We are still on our babymoon - thank you to Jacqueline Norris, CD, PCD for writing today's post about postpartum care and the work of a postpartum doula. To learn more about Jacqueline, please see the end of today's post.
A baby is born -
helpless, frail, precious, captivating, demanding, amazing. Even if not initially, soon enough most
parents find themselves awed at this tiny little miracle. They want to do the
best they can to care for this needy little person who demands so much of their
attention and care. |
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Tina Lebedies, AAHCC: Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 10:22 AM
We are officially on our babymoon. Thank you to today's writer, Tina Lebedies, AAHCC for allowing us a little more time to enjoy our sweet baby girl who is growing and changing already!! Tina is an Affiliated
Bradley Method® Instructor who teaches her classes in the Queen Creek and San
Tan Valley area of Metro Phoenix.
I want to share this story with you
because I believe it is a common problem, and with awareness and proper
education it can be overcome with little to no medical or non-natural
interventions. |
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman: Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 12:09 AM
 My child is crying and I don't know what to do - help!!
It would be nice if all our days as parents were smooth sailing and sunny skies. The reality is that all babies and children have fussy or weepy days - the Bumpy Days on the parenting road.
The most important thing to do when our children are crying more than
usual is to rule out illness. Check their temperature, look for rashes,
examine whether or not their activity levels and/or appetites have
changed in the last 24 hours. |
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