The Mothers Act and Health Care Bill is a prescription for disaster for postpartum mothers! This bill works to get anti-depressants, and who knows what other kinds of drugs, into the hands of new moms before they leave the hospital. The package labels on antidepressants states that the risk of psychosis while taking antidepressants is [...]
In honor of National Nutrition Month I would like to offer a free nutritional consultation and coaching session for women trying-to-conceive; pregnant, postpartum, and nursing women; and children in the North Texas area. This offer will expire on March 31, 2010! To register for and schedule your free nutritional consultation and coaching session please email [...]
Day 2 – Monday, March 15th Breakfast: Salt water Grapefruit Juice Supplements Morning snack: basic smoothie Lunch: blueberry Smoothie Afternoon snack: Carrot/spinach/celery/parsley juice Evening snack: carrot/beet/cucumber juice Dinner: vegetable fajita lettuce wraps with homemade guacamole Bedtime snack: 1 fuji apple Day 3 – Tuesday, March 16th Breakfast: salt water strawberry smoothie supplements morning snack: 2 [...]
The DuChene Nutrition and Wellness Upgrade takes you from your current dietary and wellness style and upgrades you to a more nutritious and healthful dietary and wellness style. I have implemented my self-designed program with myself and am documenting my daily plan and activities with The DuChene Nutrition and Wellness Upgrade here on Nourishing Origins. [...]
I did this interview with Dallas Ch. 11 CBS news on December 18, 2009. Around 80% of postpartum women experience what is known as the baby blues which starts within the first few days to a week after birth and lasts a couple of weeks postpartum. The baby blues can cause women to have mood [...]
As many of you know I was expecting my second child and planning to encapsulate my own placenta, I didn’t get to with my first as I didn’t know about placenta encapsulation or the benefits of the placenta to mom postpartum then. Well, we ended up having a hospital natural VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean, [...]
The placenta has LONG been revered in many cultures as sacred, and honored in many different ways. One of the oldest traditions of use of the placenta postpartum is in the Chinese culture. In Traditional Chinese Medicine the placenta is viewed as being a very sacred and vital life force that hold healing properties in [...]
NOTE: The guidelines below are NOT vegan or vegetarian friendly. However, both personally and professionally, I am well experienced with vegetarian, vegan, and raw vegan diets and their application in maternal and pediatric nutrition. These guidelines below are for OPTIMAL nutrition. Meaning everything that we, as humans, need for optimal wellness via nutrition. I do [...]