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Charting Tip: Charting After Giving Birth

By Kimberly Racic, fertility educator and founder of FertilityFlower.com While you observe dry vaginal sensation and dry (meaning ‘no’) cervical fluid during the postpartum period, you don’t need to chart. Ah….I actually said it! I’ll say it again – you don’t need to chart as long as you have no cervical fluid and have ‘dry’read more of this

Make 2012 Your Best Year Ever

By Kim Corrigan-Oliver, certified holistic nutritionist Awe, the dawn of a New Year, such an exciting time full of anticipation. It is also a time which usually brings with it resolutions. I am not a big fan of New Year’s Resolutions – they are more gimmick than anything and for the most part are setread more of this

A Healthy Treat for the Holidays

By Kim Corrigan-Oliver, cetified holistic nutritionist It is that time of year, a time of sweets and treats.  It is hard on the best of days for most of us to avoid sweets, so I am here to help all of you future mamas, soon to be mamas and new mamas. I have a delicious,read more of this

7 Holiday SurThrival Strategies

by Amy Medling, CHC Health Coach Imagine how it would feel to maintain your weight and health throughout the holidays and to start the New Year feeling in control, strong and vibrant? Holiday temptations can be hard to resist without a carefully planned strategy to keep you on track. If you are tired of havingread more of this

Lunaception: Kill The Lights For Better Fertility

By Kimberly Racic, founder FertilityFlower.com and Editor of Fertile Imagination I am a week into NaturallyKnockedUp.com’s Naturally Balanced Challenge. The crux of the challenge is to make positive changes in nutrition, exercise and charting but mostly to support each other on our journey to better habits. One of the elements of the challenge is toread more of this

Infertility and Treating the Whole Mama

By Julie Stockman From the age of 25 to 35, I consumed more medications than I hope to for the rest of my life. With complete, unwavering trust in the authority of Doctor, M.D., I washed down thousands of pills. I had prescriptions for high blood pressure, regulating periods, anxiety, more high blood pressure, obsessive-compulsiveread more of this

Cold and Flu Season is Here!

By Kim Corrigan-Oliver, certified holistic nutritionist So, I hope you enjoyed last month’s post on supporting the immune system with some old, but useful tricks.  This month, let’s take a look at a few supplements which play an important role in helping our immune systems to their job. Vitamin D3 liquid – research continues toread more of this

Cold and Flu Season Is Coming

By Kim Corrigan-Oliver, certified holistic nutritionist Yes, cold and flu season is coming, but with a little bit of thought and care you can strengthen your body and its defences so you can defend yourself against whatever comes calling this winter. Bugs and germs are often “blamed” for causing the cold and flu, but isread more of this

How to Choose a Midwife

By Julie Stockman Oh how I love those two lines on a pregnancy test stick after months – or years – of trying. With them comes the leaping expectant joy of bringing a whole new person into this world. Those two lines mean hoping against hope for a brand new pair of tiny soft feet,read more of this

Update from the Farm

By Megan Loukota It has been just about perfect weather here lately. Rain at night (mostly) and sunshine during the day. It finally got hot enough to put our my tomatoes and its a good thing because they were overgrowing my polytunnel.  I ended up with 57 tomatoes plants, 50 pepper plants, and 24 eggplants.read more of this