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Growing a Greener Family
Instilling a sense of environmental responsibility is good for your children - and their future. Your kids absorb all of the values that you live as a family. That means you'll exert an influence just by making...
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Questions For Doctor
Questions You Should Ask Your Doctor Choosing the right practitioner is an important part of making your pregnancy as safe and comfortable as possible. While most women (8 of 10) choose an obstetrician as their...
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Depleted Mother Syndrome
Parenting can wreck your life. One morning a few months after our second child, Laurel, was born -- we'd been up much of the night (again) and were blotto with fatigue -- my wife looked at me and said...
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Symptoms of Reflux and Reflux Disease
Some common symptoms of uncomplicated reflux can include: constant or sudden crying or colic like symptoms irritability and pain poor sleep habits typically with frequent waking arching their necks...
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Leaving Obesity Behind
For the growing number of Canadians who have no success with traditional weight loss, it is important that they understand the options, risks and benefits of the leading weight loss surgeries. Tammy Robertson...
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Are you ready for a sick day?
”Sick days” are inevitable and somewhat unpredictable when you have a child. Preparing for a sick day when you and your kids are healthy will make dealing with them a whole lot easier especially if...
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The Baby Blues
I remember when I was lying in my hospital bed after the birth of my fourth child, Coleton. I had endured a full day of labor and a difficult delivery (who says the fourth one comes easily?), and I was tired beyond...
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The "Pains" of Motherhood
Carol Feener has a full life - a wife and mother of three children - she is devoted to her family. Carol first started experiencing the aches and pains of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) at a time in her life when...
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4 Simple, Sure-Fire Techniques to Squash Temptation Now
Are you convinced that the chocolate candy bar over there is calling out to you? Does that decadent dessert give you a come-hither look? Does the...
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End Morning Sickness
Are you suffering the affects of morning sickness. It seems so unfair that at a time of great joy and excitement women are plagued with nausea, vomiting and food aversions. Don’t lose hope though, there...
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About Pneumococcal Disease
Ann Douglas Brings Mommy Know-how Tour To Indigo Yorkdale Canadian parenting author offers real-world advice to make sense of baby's health care...
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Get Moving!
Getting physically active doesn’t have to be complicated, expensive or grueling. All you have to do is move it! February is Heart Month and the Heart and Stroke Foundation encourages all Canadians to commit...
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Allergy & Asthma Triggers in the Home
House Dust House dust is everywhere. It is part of our life! House dust is a component of who you are. House dust is not just dirt but a mixture of potentially allergenic materials, such as...
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The Kegel Exercise
The purpose of the kegel exercise is to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles that supports the bowel, bladder and womb. During pregnancy the muscles becomes soft and pliable, and can become weak as your...
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Mom-Friendly Fitness Workouts
We all know at least one Cindy Crawford-type: a new mom who was able to slip into her skin-tight workout leotard within days of giving birth. What we sometimes forget, however, is that the Cindy Crawfords...
