Issue 28

• LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Jeanne Ohm, DC

• SPECIAL SECTION | Celebrating the Shift to Conscious Choice: Highlights of the Freedom for Family Wellness Summit

• FEATURE | The Benefits of Baby Carrying

• GRATITUDE | Don’t Judge, Enjoy! Your Present Moments Are Precious

• WELLNESS LIFESTYLE | Amazing Capacities & Self-Inflicted Limitations

• NUTRITION | The Raw Truth: Common Sense about Raw Milk from a Raw Milk Dairy Farmer

• CHIROPRACTIC FOR LIFE | Turn, Turn, Turn: Options for Turning and Birthing Breech Babies

• PREGNANCY | Mother Nature’s Child: Simple Herbal Remedies for Pregnancy, Postpartum and Beyond

• BIRTH | Encouraging Words, Unintentional Wounds

• THE OUTER WOMB | Breastfeeding & Fatherhood

• PARENTING | The Important First Nine Months of Life

• FAMILY LIVING | Yoga for Kids: An Ancient Practice for Modern Children

• MIND—BODY—SPIRIT | Positively Grateful: 3 Easy Tips for Maintaining a Loving and Positive State of Being

• HOLISTIC HEALTHCARE | Children’s Health: A Question of Balance

• GREENER PERSPECTIVES | Greening Our Children’s Lunches

• INFORMED CHOICE | Breathe Easy: Vaccines Aren’t Preventing Whooping Cough…But You Can

Letter from the Editor

Jeanne Ohm, DC

• Editorials

Celebrating the Shift to Conscious Choice – Highlights of the 2010 Freedom for Family Wellness Summit

Lisa Reagan

(No References)

The Benefits of Baby Carrying

Elizabeth Antunovic

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Don’t Judge, Enjoy! Your Present Moments Are Precious

Wayne W. Dyer, Ph.D.

(No References)

Amazing Capacities & Self-Inflicted Limitations – An Interview with Joseph Chilton Pearce

Michael Mendizza

(No References)

The Raw Truth Common Sense about Raw Milk from a Raw Milk Dairy Farmer

Edwin Shank

(No References)

Turn, Turn, Turn: Options for Turning and Birthing Breech Babies

Heather Yost, D.C.

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Mother Nature’s Child Simple Herbal Remedies for Pregnancy, Postpartum and Beyond

Karen Kliewer

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Encouraging Words, Unintentional Wounds

Melissa Bruijn with Debby Gould

(No References)

Breastfeeding & Fatherhood – How a father’s support enriches the breastfeeding experience for the family

Patrick M. Houser

(No References)

The Important First Nine Months of Life

Jeane Rhodes

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Yoga for Kids: An Ancient Practice for Modern Children

Marsha Therese Danzig

(No References)

Positively Grateful: 3 Easy Tips for Maintaining a Loving and Positive State of Being

Monica Cravotta

(No References)

Children’s Health: A Question of Balance

Philip Incao, M.D.

(No References)

Greening Our Children’s Lunches

Elizabeth Anderson-Peacock, D.C.

(No References)

Breathe Easy: Vaccines Aren’t Preventing Whooping Cough…But You Can

Darrel Crain, D.C.

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