Desculpa minha filha...

Desculpa-me por não ter visto os sinais, por não ter sabido interpretá-los antes.

Quando nasceste, eras a bebé mais pacífica e sorridente. Sorrias a todos e começaste a palrar com 1 semana. Não foste aumentando de peso como a tua irmã mas ela era mais mamona e pensei que fosse disso. O tempo foi passando e depois de teres ficado resfriada notei-te mais calada, mais rabugenta e até a rejeitar a mama excepto quando já estavas com alguma fome. Ao mesmo tempo, a tua irmã estava mais faladora, mais sorridente (já que tinha nascido a desconfiar de tudo e de todos) e pensei que fosse uma mudança de personalidades. Afinal, tinha passado tão pouco tempo e como havia eu de vos conhecer já? Mas no fundo nada destas mudanças faziam sentido... Dormias mini-sestas, acordavas sobressaltada. As noites foram ficando piores. Entretanto ficámos todas constipadas e por cima, vocês ficaram ambas com o intestino solto... Analisei o que podia ter sido, eliminei alimentos, iniciei próbiótico para vocês e não vi melhoria... Até que começaste a ficar assada. Tentei tudo o que já conhecia, e cada vez estavas pior. O que estaria a acontecer? Ainda assim, ainda me sorrias de vez em quando... mal sabia eu o sofrimento que devias estar a passar.

O assado levantou-me a suspeita: olhei para a tua boca: a língua branca, mas nada que não fosse expectável numa lactente. Até que vi que tinhas o interior das bochechas com várias manchas brancas menores que os furos de um furador de papel para dossiers. Poderia ser? Sapinhos? Não... Afinal, os meus mamilos não tinham, a tua irmã também não apresentava sintomas... Ainda assim, peguei num cotonete e passei na tua boca. Nesta altura já os teus lábios também apresentavam manchas brancas que eu associava ao leite materno. Saiu sem dificuldade. Ufa, não eram sapinhos. Iniciei óleo de coco no rabinho e houve melhorias mas sem significado. à noite, intrigada, voltei a pegar num cotonete e a passar no interior das bochechas em várias manchas... não saiam! Afinal, podiam mesmo ser sapinhos... Ligámos ao pedi que nos indicou um antifúngico para aplicar. Podia ter ido lá com mézinhas? Se calhar até podia, mas queria resultados mais imediatos... afinal a situação já se arrastava há pelo menos um mês e a miúda estava ali em sofrimento... O pai lá foi a correr à farmácia e começámos a toma de noite. De manhã já havia resultados visíveis: ela acordou a sorrir, com muito mais vontade de mamar, o rabinho tinha melhorado do assado e as manchas dos lábios tinham já reduzido, os sonos melhoraram, os cocós também... Grande lição aprendi contigo minha filha: devo confiar mais no que me estás a dizer e não achar que mudaste de repente. Estás a crescer mas ninguém muda de um dia para o outro sem razão.

Forgive me child,

Forgive me for not seeing the signs, for not reading them before.

When you were born, you were the most peaceful smiling baby. You would smile to everyone and began to chatter with 1 week old. You were not increasing in weight as your sister but she always had more appetite and I thought it was that. Time passed and after you caught a cold I noticed you quieter, more morose and to reject the breast except when you were already hungry. At the same time, your sister was more talkative, more smily (since she had been born grumpier) and thought it was a change of personalities. After all, so little time had gone by: how would I know you already? But nothing in the background of these changes make sense ... You were sleeping mini-naps and woke up startled. The nights were getting worse. In the meantime we all had a cold and you were both pooping non-stop... I analyzed what could have been, eliminated foods, started you on probiotics and still didn't see improvement... until you start getting bum rash. I tried everything I knew and it only got worse. What was happening? Yet, you still smiled at me from time to time ... little did I know the suffering you should be going through.

The rash made me suspect it could be thrush. I looked at your mouth: a white tongue, but nothing that was not expected of a breastfeeding baby. Until I saw you had the inside of your cheeks with several smaller white patches. Could it be? Thrush? No... After all, my nipples were fine, your sister also had no symptoms... Still, I took a swab in your mouth and removed one of the spots. By now your lips also had white spots I associated to breast milk. Pfiew, not thrush. Started on coconut oil for your bum and there were improvements however meaningless. At night, intrigued, I picked up another cotton swab and tried inside the cheeks at various spots... and I couldn't remove them! It could be thrush after all... we called the doctor and he recommended an antifungic. Could I have tried it natural remedies? Perhaps I could, but I wanted more immediate results... after all the situation had dragged on for at least a month and you were suffering... Daddy ran to the pharmacy and started taking it that night. In the morning visible results: you woke up smiling, with much more desire to breastfeed, the nappy rash had improved and lip spots had already reduced, sleept well, less pooping also... I learnt a great lesson with you my daughter: I should rely more on what you are telling me and not think that you have changed suddenly. You are growing but no one changes from one day to the next without reason.

http://www.examiner.com/article/infant-oral-thrush-what-is-candida-albicans-and-how-is-it-treated

Blogue de obstetra

A Dra. Melânia Amorim não é a obstetra a que estamos habituados.
A de bata branca e óculos na ponta do nariz, que só olha para nós no inicio ou no final da consulta e de resto se concentra em escrevinhar coisas num papel ou bater tecla no computador.
Ela é brasileira, nordestina, e acérrima defensora das evidências científicas e do direito de escolha da mulher. Em gestar, em parir e em amamentar.
Em desmedicalizar processos fisiológicos que quando correm bem, é bem melhor não mexer.
Como activista (e lactivista) que é, todos os dias respondia a questões e por isso resolveu começar um blogue em que escreve sobre diversos assuntos de forma objectiva e fundamentada para que não esteja sempre a responder às mesmas coisas ;)
Aqui encontram o blogue dela e neste caso, o seu artigo baseado em evidências científicas sobre o parto na água: http://estudamelania.blogspot.com.br/2012/09/estudando-sobre-parto-na-agua.html

Pena não haver outros como ela deste lado do Atlântico...

Gel de Aloe Vera. Pode dar jeito saber

HOW to FREEZE Aloe Vera GEL!

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Everybody knows ALOE VERA is great for cuts and sunburns, even bug bites. It's been called the "First Aid" plant. Aloe vera's soothing gel inside the thick, succulent leaves is an incredible natural skin care "product." But what about the rest of the body: are there benefits for your insides too? Actually there are some very powerful be

nefits from the aloe vera plant. No one plant offers all the health benefits of the aloe vera plant.


~ Benefits Of ALOE VERA ~

• Aloe vera is an antioxidant and cancer fighter, especially
colon cancer

• Reduces and stops inflammation, both internally and externally

• Oxygenates blood and energizes cells, hydrates skin and repairs skin tissue

• Aloe vera heals internal digestive problems such as irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, acid reflux - cleanses the intestinal tract

• Reduces risk factor for strokes and heart attacks by making "sticky" blood "unsticky," and boosts the oxidation of your blood, plus circulation

• Alkalizes the body, helping to balance overly acidic dietary habits

• Boosts cardiovascular performance and physical endurance

• Stabilizes blood pressure and reduces triglycerides

The Harvesting Process

When ready to harvest the gel from an aloe leaf, choose an outer leaf that is healthy and grows toward the bottom of the plant. To remove the leaf, cut it at an angle close to the plant's base. Plants that are too immature to harvest will not have leaves growing close to the ground.

Once you cut the leaf from the plant, place it upright in a container in a slightly tilted position. Let the leaf stay in that position for approximately 10 to 12 minutes, allowing the sap to drain from the leaf.

Place the aloe leaf on a flat surface such as a cutting board. Carefully cut off the tip of the leaf and the pointed rough edges on both sides using a very sharp knife. Make certain to cut both sides of the leaf all the way from top to bottom.
Separate the front and back of the leaf by slicing it lengthwise
from the inside.

Scoop out both the slimy mucilage gel and the clear inner gel which appears more as a solid gel. For most leaves, a spoon works for scooping out the gel. If the leaf is very large, a butter knife may work best. When removing the gel, it is important to press down lightly but firmly, being careful not to remove any remaining sap.

Storing the Aloe Vera Gel

Store the aloe gel in the refrigerator in a plastic container that is safe for food storage or a glass container. The best container choice is a dark green or brown glass jar, which helps to keep out light. Many people add a drop of vitamin E and a small amount of citric acid powder to prevent discoloration and make the aloe vera gel last longer. In place of citric acid powder, simply crush a vitamin C tablet into powder or use a drop of grapefruit seed extract.

sobre protectores solares

http://www.keeperofthehome.org/2012/07/how-to-make-your-own-sunscreen-lotion.html

Scientific proof that Homeopathy works

Até engravidar, pouco ou nada sabia de homepatia, excepto que era pertencia à classe das medicinas naturais e alternativas. Quando engravidei e deixei de poder tomar muitos dos medicamentos alopáticos que usava para as minhas maleitas, decidi tratar um problema crónico recorrendo à homeopatia, porque supostamente não havia efeitos secundários para mim ou para o bebé :)

Descobri que a homeopatia surgiu por volta do séc. XIX, e que se baseia no conceito de igual cura igual (ou seja, quando temos uma dor de cabeça, tomamos algo que provoque dores de cabeça, de uma forma muito simplista, pois a homeopatia olha para o paciente de uma forma holística e tenta resolver a causa da dor e não "apagá-la" como a medicina convencional). Não há efeitos secundários porque as concentrações de princípio activo são muitíssimo reduzidas (as chamadas Potências) e há até quem questione a sua validade por esta razão.

Não sei explicar como funciona, não sei explicar porque funciona. O certo é que desde que engravidei da moyinha tenho sido muito mais saudável (também adoptei outras atitudes mais saudáveis, é certo), e as minhas contas na farmácia (convencional, pelo menos), têm sido muito menores :)

Deixo um artigo para os mais cépticos:

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 by: Matthew Silverstone

Most scientists would state categorically that homeopathy is a scientific impossibility. Who would disagree, as the explanation that is currently provided to support homeopathy makes very little sense. How is it possible that a solution that contains no chemical atoms causes a biological reaction? All of our basic understanding of science screams out that this is patently impossible.

But what if all that we have been taught at school, at university and at work is in fact only part of the truth. What if there was a missing part of our education that provides the missing link that makes subjects such as homeopathy scientifically obvious. What if there is much more to our body than simply chemicals.

It took me two years of research to uncover this hidden area of science. Once I did, the scientific explanation for many controversial areas of science, including homeopathy, became uncontroversial. What I am about to teach you about homeopathy is just one of the many areas of science that have been hidden from us which are finally exposed in my book, Blinded by Science www.blindedbyscience.co.uk

If we look at homeopathy from a completely different area of science other than chemistry then we can begin to understand how homeopathy really works. It is just like one of those intellectual games that people play, where the answer is so obvious once you know it, but impossible if you don't

Take the following puzzle:

You are in front of three light switches only one of which turns on a light in the adjacent room. You only have two attempts to find out which of the three switches work. Without being able to see the effect of the switches it is impossible to know which of them work, it is a mathematical impossibility. However, by using a different area of science, the solution is incredibly simple. The answer lies with the heat generated from the light and not the light itself. If you turn on a switch and then turn it off again and go and feel if the light is hotter then in two attempts you will know exactly which of the light switches turns on the light.

Now if we turn back to homeopathy, we have to look at it from the same idea and say that the idea that chemicals are the issue is irrelevant to solving the problem.

It is not the chemicals in the solution that cause a biological change but the vibrations that emanated from the chemicals, which have an affect. The massive missing part of our education is simply the concept of "vibrations" and everything that they affect. In the puzzle above, the light caused the bulb to heat up through vibrations and so two ideas were working at the same time, light and heat. The same is true with every aspect of our body, it works on two levels, a chemical one and a vibrational one, they go hand in hand, one does not work without the other.

As every electron vibrates uniquely and everything is made up of electrons then it is incontrovertible to state that everything vibrates, absolutely everything. So if everything vibrates, it would seem fairly logical that one vibration must affect another. Just take sound as an example, a choir all singing together sounds very different from a school playground.

The same thing happens in our body, you get choirs in parts of our body where it is healthy vibrationally and noisy playgrounds where our body's organs are malfunctioning causing vibrational disharmony and sickness.

This idea is hugely controversial as it contradicts everything that we have been taught. The tragedy however, is that science has proven it to be true in thousands of different studies, but has not promoted is as it implies that pharmaceutical drugs are not the only cure in town.

So if vibrations are the answer what about the big idea that is put forward by homeopaths that is it also to do with the concept that water has some sort of a memory to provide evidence that homeopathy works scientifically.

This is total nonsense and provides yet more ammunition to everyone who wants to dismiss a perfectly sensible area of science as pseudo-science. WATER DOES NOT HAVE A MEMORY. Of course it doesn't. Water has amazing functions but memory is not one of them.

Water has the amazing property that enables it to change its vibrational pattern to the chemical or environment in which it is in. This is an incredibly important point and one that needs to be remembered, water is a chameleon, adapting itself to its environment vibrationally.

As an example, in one experiment, if you treated a cup of water with a specific vibrational frequency the water would change itself to that specific vibration and it would stay like that forever. It would only change if it came across a different vibration.

This vibrated water if ingested directly and instantly affects our body's biological functions. Depending on the vibrational frequency of the water, different illnesses can be treated.

I have not included the specific scientific experiments here that prove all of the ideas I have outlined, but you can look them up for free on my website at www.blindedbyscience.co.uk in the bibliography section on the website.

The conclusion from my research is that if you add a chemical into a solution and then remove all traces of that chemical from the solution, the specific chemical vibrational remains which has the same biological affect as if the chemical were still in the water. The body recognises the new vibration and reacts accordingly.

This idea has radical implications for our health as it means that not only do we have to question the water that we drink but also our environment in which we live which is saturated with man made vibrations from all of the electronic machinery that we use in our every day lives. What damage are they in fact doing to our health?

So hopefully, in these few paragraphs I have shown that it is scientifically logical for homeopathic treatments to work, through the properties of vibrations. The problem that I have, however, is this: how do homeopathic treatments work when they are in solid pill form. For this I do not have the answers. I can only confirm that homeopathy is a very simple science in principle when it is in a solution and should be embraced by the scientific community.


About the author:
Matthew Silverstone is the author of Blinded by science, www.blindedbyscience.co.uk a book that will completely change your attitude to your health.

Blinded by Science offers a theory which when applied to factors like water, plants, the Sun and the Moon all seems to make perfect sense. As simple as it sounds, it is the theory that everything vibrates. The book explains that everything vibrates from the nucleus of an atom to the molecules of our blood, our brain, sound, plants, animals, all the way into outer space. Once this basic principle is understood, everything suddenly becomes clear. Once you apply this theory to the world around you, you will be astounded by what you learn. Find out more at www.blindedbyscience.co.uk

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033558_homeopathy_science.html#ixzz1a8xpJEh0

Absolutely Mindblowing! Absolutamente Fantástico!

o filme-documentário "Forks over knives" que aborda o problema alimentar estabelecido nos U.S.A. e relata como há médicos que já provaram que a nossa sociedade tem um consumo excessivo de proteína animal e produtos processados que nos causa um aumento da susceptibilidade genética para cancros, diabetes e doenças coronárias. O filme também aborda como se podem minimizar ou até reverter esses processoas através da dieta, especialmente de dietas ricas em produtos vegetais.
Adorei a explicação da saciedade e a explicação de porque o nosso corpo está programado para desejar os alimentos mais calóricos! E há muito que em casa já me tinham ensinado que alguma comida é como uma "droga" que causa adição. Este filme também explica em detalhe porque e como isso ocorre!!
A única coisa é que não me parece que tenham feito uma comparação entre ingestão de proteína animal biológica e proteína animal de produção em massa, o que pode alterar os resultados... De qualquer forma, no meio é que está a virtude. Agora resta saber onde está o meio...
Não percam e venham cá escrever o que acharam :)

Alimentação (mais) saudável

Sempre me preocupei com a alimentação, mas desde que engravidei e tive a moyinha, o tema e a pesquisa tornaram-se mais sérios.

Tenho lido informações muito interessantes dos sites:
- Babysol
- Alimentação viva
- Instituto macrobiótico de Portugal

Desde então temos reduzido o consumo de carne, dando preferência a peixe ou leguminosas e soja/seitan. Temos introduzido mais sementes (sésamo, linhaça, girassol) , e variedade nas saladas na nossa alimentação (para além das frutas, muito presentes).
Tenho feito mais sumos de fruta natural: a centrifugadora funciona quase todos os dias!
Tenho experimentado outros cereais: quinoa, bulgur (trigo), etc.

Tentamos fazer menos fritos e mais assados: p.e., as batatas em palitos ficam igualmente saborosas e apetitosas se as espalharmos num tabuleiro com um fio de óleo e as levarmos ao forno! e menos refogados e mais guisados!

Começámos a fazer pão numa máquina (ou em forno de lenha, quando é possível) e iogurte numa iogurteira eléctrica.

A última inovação, que eu já queria ter experimentado há algum tempo mas não sabia onde arranjar, foi o kefir. A minha amiga Xana deu-me uns grãos que tinha a mais e já temos a nossa própria produção! Eventualmente poderei partilhar os grãos que for tendo. Se quiserem, avisem!
O kefir é semelhante ao iogurte mas mais líquido, e descobri que os grãos também colonizam em água adoçada/sumos pelo que já tenho as duas variedades em produção! Podem ver mais info sobre este alimento aqui.