Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby

Should Kombucha Have a Place in Your Pregnancy?

A review on the literature of fermented tea consumption during pregnancy.

When strolling the aisles in the refrigerated section of your local Whole Foods or other health food store, you will notice a colorful assortment…

Could the Golf Course Green be Poisoning You and Your Child?

Wake Up and Smell the Chemicals

What expecting mothers don’t know about their morning coffee (but they should)

The Effects of Fragrances on Pregnancy and Human Health

There’s only so much you can predict you’ll need when you’re preparing for a baby. By her third child, you’d think my mother would be an expert. When my youngest brother was born in the summer of 2012, even I felt more than ready to…

Note to Pregnant Mothers: Beware of Perchloroethylene and Phthalates

When thinking about how many chemicals you are around every day, you might become concerned. The variety of substances everyday Americans are exposed to in the indoor chemical soup is astonishing. Every minute…

Tattoos: How Cool Are They Really?

When people hear the word danger, what would people think of first? For some, they might think of a feral wolf who hasn’t had anything to eat alongside her starving cubs attacking them, a hurricane ripping up a shoreline, or even the declaration of a serial killer on…

You can’t breathe serious

While being pregnant is a beautiful and a wonderful life -giving 9 months, it is also challenging, stressful, and can have many complications along the way. It is important to be aware of all the possible road bumps along the way. From morning sickness to weird food cravings, there…

Phthalates in Our Daily Lives

Stacey Myers is a 34 year old mom of 6 children; her proudest accomplishment in life is being a mother to her kids, and she certainly is good at it. Her kids are all happy and energetic, ready to face each day anew. Her oldest, a 9-year-old named Kaitlin, went to the national…

Roses are Red; Violets are Blue; Your Prenatal Vitamins are Artificially Colored, What’s that Gonna Do?

This semester, my professor assigned our class a major project: create an environmental health guide for pregnant women that focuses on a specific agent…