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Natural Sources of Folic Acid {Raising Healthy Families}

April 19, 2013 By Emily McClements
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Welcome back to the Raising Healthy Families series - a fun and informative series designed to help you and your family thrive! Join us each Friday as we take a look at different ways to keep your family healthy and vibrant in a not-so-healthy world! This week's post from Justyn at Creative Christian Mama is perfect for expecting mamas! This Week: Natural Sources of Folic Acid Written by Justyn Lang of Creative Christian Mama When a woman is pregnant or is trying to conceive, she is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Natural Health Tagged With: healthy green pregnancy, healthy living, pregnancy, Raising Healthy Families, real food

Easy Elimination Communication For Newborns {Green in 365: Baby & Child Care}

April 9, 2013 By Emily McClements
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Easy Elimination Communication for Newborns

  This is Day 99 of the Green in 365 series! The is the second post in a guest series on Elimination Communication, if you haven't yet, read this post first. By Elizabeth of Running Family As a busy mother of four, I am all about taking the easiest route when it comes to diapering. As I mentioned yesterday, I confess that I always thought EC was for weird hippies and those with too much time, which obviously wasn’t me. I am shocked at how EC has made my life much easier … [Read more...]

3 CommentsFiled Under: Green in 365 Tagged With: baby, baby and child care, elimination communication, family, pregnancy

Guest Post: Walking with Her Through the Darkness {Helping a Friend with Postpartum Depression}

September 28, 2012 By Emily McClements
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Guest Post by Sara Elizabeth of A Mama's Story: *A note from Emily: I'm thankful to have Sara Elizabeth sharing some of her experience with Postpartum Depression and how to help a mama you may know who is struggling. Since dealing with some strong baby blues after each of my babies' births I can agree with how important it is to offer a new mother help without judgement. Recently I wrote a post regarding my journey through postpartum depression (PPD), hoping to help women who are struggling … [Read more...]

6 CommentsFiled Under: Family & Children Tagged With: baby, encouragement, family, guest post, pregnancy

Cloth Diapering a Newborn – Prefolds, Fitteds and Covers

September 17, 2012 By Emily McClements
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cloth diapering a newborn: prefolds & fitteds

So your ready to start cloth diapering your newborn babe using the tips and suggestions I gave you last week, but now you're wondering what styles and types of diapers you should use. This week, I'm going to tell you about my favorites, and what I used on my new babies. Newborn size prefolds Prefolds might seem a little scary because they are the type of diaper that you think about when you picture our moms using cloth diapers. I didn't try prefolds until my oldest daughter was about five or … [Read more...]

13 CommentsFiled Under: Family & Children Tagged With: baby steps, cloth diapers, green living, pregnancy

8 Natural Remedies for Postpartum Baby Blues

August 7, 2012 By Emily McClements
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natural remedies for baby blues

Baby Blair is two months old now and the time is just flying by! I love this newborn stage so, so much - the sweet smelling baby that sleeps all the time, curls up in a little ball, makes such cute and funny faces and noises, and is most happy and content when they are in your arms. But, the newborn stage can be a difficult stage too - adjusting to life with a new baby, nursing around the clock, dealing with behavior issues of older children, feeling sleep deprived and dealing with the ups … [Read more...]

24 CommentsFiled Under: Family & Children Tagged With: baby, breastfeeding, family, healthy green pregnancy, pregnancy

Why We Chose to Have a Homebirth

July 9, 2012 By Emily McClements
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Laboring in our bedroom It’s kind of hard for me to believe that when I gave birth to Blair at home that I entered a very small minority of women who have had a home birth. I don't feel like some radical, crazy, or super-woman. I also don’t feel like we made some totally unconventional decision, and having a home birth really felt so natural to me. But the reality is that even though home births are on the rise in the US, still only around one percent of women choose to give birth at home. … [Read more...]

18 CommentsFiled Under: Family & Children Tagged With: baby, healthy green pregnancy, home birth, natural birth, pregnancy

Guest Post: 8 Tips for a Healthy Postpartum Recovery

July 6, 2012 By Emily McClements
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I'm thankful to have Amee from Inspired-Houswife guest posting today about natural postpartum recovery. I feel like my recovery was much quicker with this birth because I followed many of these tips! Hello, Live Renewed readers. My name is Amee from Inspired-Housewife, and it is my pleasure to be with you today. Congratulations to Emily on the birth of her baby girl Blair, and way to go mama on having the baby at home too! Now that baby Blair is here, Emily should focus on her new … [Read more...]

11 CommentsFiled Under: Family & Children Tagged With: baby, breastfeeding, family, healthy green pregnancy, pregnancy

Coming Out of the Fog

July 2, 2012 By Emily McClements
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Me with my girls So the past few weeks have definitely been an adjustment for our new family of five. Overall we are doing well, but there are those moments where I do wonder what I've gotten myself into! Although I have had some days of the baby blues where I've just felt totally overwhelmed, (my postpartum hormones are crazy all over the place!), for the most part, I have felt better the past three weeks since Blair was born then I felt the whole nine months previously! Pregnancy … [Read more...]

10 CommentsFiled Under: Family & Children Tagged With: baby, family, pregnancy

Blair’s Homebirth Story

June 18, 2012 By Emily McClements
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Blair Grace was born at home on June 8. She is named after her Papa, David Blair Sutton, who called her 'Sweet Pea' and loved her so much, even though he never got to meet her. I know that he is smiling down on her from Heaven. Here is her birth story: Thursday evening, June 7th, I was having some fairly regular contractions. I’d been having them on and off since Sunday afternoon, and was feeling really ready for them to turn into the real thing. I thought that Friday would be a great day to … [Read more...]

27 CommentsFiled Under: Family & Children Tagged With: birth story, healthy green pregnancy, homebirth, natural birth, pregnancy

Healthy Green Pregnancy – Pregnancy Reading List

February 10, 2012 By Emily McClements
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Whether this is your first pregnancy, your third (like me!), or your sixth, I really believe that it is important to read books about pregnancy, birth, nursing, and babies to help prepare your mind, your body, and your heart for your new little bundle of joy. Of course, I had much more time to read during my first pregnancy then I do now, and in some ways I kind of feel like: Been there, done that, and that there is not much new that I can learn about being pregnant. But, the truth is that … [Read more...]

9 CommentsFiled Under: Family & Children Tagged With: children, family, healthy green pregnancy, pregnancy, reading list

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