Welcome to my blog. Here’ll you find a lot of information about health, mind/body/spirit well-being and self-empowerment. Due to the release of my new book, Right Time Baby, the blog will have a special focus on later motherhood, for now. Today, more than ever, we need positive messages and encouragement. There are so many outdated myths and ageist (sexist) misconceptions about later motherhood. …
Better IVF
A good friend of mine is 8 months pregnant at 44 (she’s 45 next month) thanks to a combination of pre-conception measures. And yes, of course she read my book. She detoxed gently using the superfood chorella. She held off the alcohol and caffeine and ate lots of fertility enhancing foods. She focused her attention, …
When to Wean
My baby has just turned 8 months and he’s started… slowly, gradually eating solids. He munches away at apple slices, chews on steamed broccoli sticks, sucks avocado off his fingers and gnaws at spelt bread. Organic, spelt bread I’d like to add; baked by his grandmother in an Arabic-style, wood-fire oven which his father – …
Let There Be Light
As the days become longer and the sun shines brighter most of us are feeling chirpier, happier and maybe even more horny (well stranger things have happened). For those who want to get pregnant, natural light is essential. It takes just 20 minutes of natural, full spectrum daylight on the retina in the eye for …
Fever
Your baby’s temperature has risen to 39.8 C and she’s very uncomfortable. What do you do? Rush to hospital? Stick her in a tepid bath? Sponge her down? Give her paracetamol as fast as possible? What if you’ve given her a fever suppository and she poops immediately afterwards? Will the drug still work? Parenthood is …
The Last Taboo
How old is too old to have a baby? And who has the right to decide this? It seems that plenty of people – especially the health authorities and media – would like to judge over what is, after all, a basic human right: To procreate. One argument goes that it’s ‘selfish’ …
Baby-wearing for perfectly shaped heads
Hardly a day goes by when I’m not thankful for my baby sling (or slings, I own 3, all serving slightly different purposes). I have one of those babies who just doesn’t like being put down. “His bum hurts when he’s lying or sitting,” as his father jokes. Of course there’s usually something bothering him …
Happy kids
Following on from the blog about baby slings some more about baby wearing from the guest expert slot I had on the US site flowerpowermom. dodo535 Guest baby carrying dear claudia, as far as i remember you have carried your son in a sling for a long time. if that is correct: do you see …
Burping and Feeding
The first months with a baby are intense work in the real sense of the word. My days (and nights) are spent feeding and burping. Often the burping takes longer than the feeding. But either way hours of my time simply disappear. In between all this activity with the baby I aim (and often fail) …
Tips on getting pregnant
This is taken from a guest expert slot I had on the US site flowerpowermom. Molly conceiving naturally I’m trying to conceive naturally. I’m 41 and my husband is 46. What can we do to improve our chances? I just don’t want to start with IVF. Thank you. Molly Claudia_Expert Re: conceiving …
In The Babymoon Baby Bubble
I just came back from my babymoon. It was like a good honeymoon should be. The days blurred into one because nothing else existed but my beloved and I. Hours were spent in a daze, looking into each other’s eyes. It was all fondling little hands, caressing warm cheeks and stroking soft hair. And I …
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