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Pre Baby & BIRTH

How To Get Folic Acid Naturally In Your Diet

Folic Acid Sources in Preconception and Pregnancy DietFolic acid is one of the B Vit­a­mins and is impor­tant dur­ing pre­con­cep­tion and preg­nancy. It is found nat­u­rally in many foods and often added to man­u­fac­tured food such as for­ti­fied break­fast cereal, malt drinks and bread.

Folic acid helps your baby develop, is nec­es­sary for the for­ma­tion of blood cells and also pre­vents neural tube defects, such as spina bifida. Defi­ciency can lead to mega­loblas­tic anaemia (folate defi­ciency anaemia.)

Mind­ful Mum lists the;

  • best nat­ural sources of folate (the nat­ural form of folic acid),
  • lat­est UK rec­om­men­da­tion on folic acid supplements,
  • rea­son why you can stop tak­ing folic acid sup­ple­ments after 12 weeks.

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Baby RECALL

Baby Product Recall: Maxi-Cosi FamilyFix Base

Family Fix Base Recall from Maxi CosiMaxi-Cosi is vol­un­tar­ily recall­ing all Maxi-Cosi Fam­i­ly­Fix bases sold before March 04, 2010, to be checked.

The recall con­cerns a poten­tial prob­lem in the mechan­i­cal attach­ment of the IsoFix con­nec­tors to the base. As a result, the base does not offer the child the desired level of pro­tec­tion in case of an acci­dent. The prob­lem, iden­ti­fied dur­ing a rou­tine inter­nal qual­ity check, affects a small per­cent­age of the total pro­duc­tion. There have been no com­plaints or report of incidents.

The Fam­i­ly­Fix base is used for two suc­ces­sive car seats;

  • Maxi-Cosi Peb­ble (baby/0-13kg)
  • Maxi-Cosi Pearl (toddler/9-18kg)

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Baby EAT

Is Teflon Safe for Cooking?

Teflon Safety - Is it safe to cook with nonstick

Ques­tion: I’ve heard that I should throw out my teflon bak­ing tray due to health risks? I’ve been using non-stick pans for years, is it safe?

Answer: If you have caught your­self using a metal knife to release your muffins from a non stick tray, a metal spat­ula to ease out your omelette or acci­den­tally left your grill on the hob, re-read the man­u­fac­turer instruc­tions on your non stick cook­ing equipment.

Despite the ease, con­ve­nience and ubiq­uity of non-stick sub­stances such as Teflon, many health con­cious par­ents are grad­u­ally phas­ing out non-stick pots and pans in favour of tra­di­tional mate­ri­als such as stain­less steel and cast iron. This is because non-stick mate­ri­als are made from per­flu­o­ro­chem­i­cals which have been asso­ci­ated with health con­cerns includ­ing; smaller birth weight in new babies, can­cer, liver dam­age and fer­til­ity problems.

For safe cook­ing, use non-stick pans accord­ing to the exact instruc­tions laid down by the man­u­fac­turer. Mind­ful Mum gives the ‘low down on non-stick cook­ing safety’ and pro­vides a list of alter­na­tives to non stick cooking.

Here is the low down on non-stick pan safety and alternatives.

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Baby RECALL

Buggy Recall to Repair: Britax Safety Care Kit Available

Britax Buggy Recall Viva and NexusFree rem­edy kit for Britax Viva and Nexus will be avail­able from Feb­ru­ary 2010.

The free kit will be avail­able for all Britax Viva and Nexus strollers – regard­less of the man­u­fac­tur­ing date. Britax and Viva bug­gies are rec­og­niz­able through the prod­uct label­ing on the side of the buggy.

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Pre Baby & BIRTH

Get Pregnant Fast: Health for Pre-conception

Getting pregnant health and lifestyle tipsIf you have decided the time is right to start a fam­ily and want to get preg­nant fast, give mother nature a help­ing hand by intro­duc­ing the fol­low­ing lifestyle changes.

To get into the right mind­set for preg­nancy think of your­self as the baby you want to care for. As a mother your focus will be on the well being, heath and safety of your child. Start car­ing for ‘you’ in this way now and enjoy the pam­per­ing, detox­ing and ‘me-time’ required for opti­mal pre­con­cep­tion health.

Of course, you have to have sex too, so we are going to start with the best time to conceive.

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Baby EAT

My child has been exposed to BPA in baby bottles. What can I do?

Ques­tion: Help, I’ve been using poly­car­bon­ate bot­tles for my baby and have just found out about BPA. What can I do?

Answer

Many mums are con­cerned that their child may have been exposed to the chem­i­cal BPA in plas­tic baby bot­tles. For­tu­nately sci­en­tists are research­ing how to block the poten­tial dam­age done by BPA.

Pre­lim­i­nary research from Duke Uni­ver­sity in the US indi­cates that folate (found in most green leafy veg­eta­bles (such as spinach) and genis­tein (found in legumes like soy) can block BPA damage.

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Baby EAT

Should I buy organic milk?

Ques­tion: Should I buy organic milk? My lit­tle boy is just about to turn one and move from breast milk to cow’s milk.  My part­ner thinks it is much health­ier than con­ven­tional milk, but my Mum thinks its just a mar­ket­ing gimmick!

Answer

Organic milk comes from cows which are only fed organic cere­als and graze on land free from arti­fi­cial fer­tilis­ers and pesticides. There is sci­en­tific evi­dence that organic milk con­tains higher lev­els of types of fats called short-chain omega-3 fatty acids, antiox­i­dants as well as more vit­a­min A and E than con­ven­tion­ally pro­duced milk.

How­ever, your Mum’s view is under­stand­able. Last year the Food Stan­dards Agency funded a con­tro­ver­sial report in 2009 stat­ing that organic food is no health­ier and pro­vides no sig­nif­i­cant nutri­tional ben­e­fit com­pared with con­ven­tion­ally pro­duced food. Although the FSA have con­cluded that organic milk con­tians higher lev­els of omega 3 than non organic milk, they advise the pub­lic to get their allowance from two por­tions of oily fish each week.

How­ever, the FSA con­clu­sions on organic food have been called into ques­tion by sci­en­tific experts and organic food campaigners.

Before mak­ing your deci­sion, con­sider the fol­low­ing research on organic milk:

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Baby HEALTH

Chammomilla Teething Remedies Comparison Review

Teething Chammomilla Powders ReviewFol­low­ing the pop­u­lar arti­cle on Home­o­pathic Teething Reme­dies Mind­ful Mum reviews the 4 com­mon Cham­momilla brands below.

  • Home­o­pathic Pharmacist
  • Nelson’s Teetha
  • Ash­ton & Parson’s  Infants Powders
  • Weleda

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