Let me just tell you that I eat more than one apple a day.
Searching for a Pediatrician
The basic qualifications are that they did the standard med school thing first then went on to complete extra schooling in holistic medicine. Melissa recommended Boulder Holistic Medical Center to us so I went and met with Dr. Berger last Thursday. I wasn't too happy about driving all the way down there only to get 5 minutes of his time so I decided to just email some questions to Mindful Pediatrics and Holistic Pediatric Consulting instead. It turns out neither of them accept insurance, period. Seems like a great way to keep your patient load down. Don't get me wrong. My acupuncturist doesn't accept insurance either but they also charge on a sliding scale according to your income. This is fair. In this case I feel as though they are cutting out the middle man to save me money too. I am ALL about cutting out the middle man but these pediatricians want $220 for a half hour appointment! Then we are left with the extreme hassle of trying to submit our bills to the insurance who in all likelihood will cover little to none of them. There's just nothing in this for me.
Dr. Berger
- Approves delayed vaccination schedule - pro
- Administers only 1/3rd the current vaccination schedule - pro
- Will try vitamin, nutrient, homeopathic remedies before pharmaceuticals of any kind - pro
- On board with leaving male children intact - pro
- Follows standard pediatric visit procedure (birth, 2, 4, 6 etc) - pro
- Seemed super busy...didn't offer up very much of his own info - con
- There was a paleo diet book in the waiting room!!!!! - pro
- Family practice so Ben and I could go there for primary care too - pro
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| 31 weeks |
The V-Word
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| 33 weeks - Durian Fruit? |
received 10 vaccinations. Fair enough but it still crosses my mind that my lifetime of vaccinations may be the cause of the horrendous allergies I suffer from today. Today, the average infant receives 36-38. Despicable. (As usual, most of Europe knows this, just check out their vaccination schedules.) A strong underlying belief in this country when it comes to anything from food to exercise to medicine seems to be that more is better. I strongly disagree. (Even with exercise. There's no reason on Earth that anyone anywhere should spend more than 45 min a day at the gym. I like to keep it to 20-30min max). If we all just used our critical thinking skills when it came to making health care choices we'd actually have a chance of moving up the health list of affluent nations on which we appear dead last. EMBARRASSING!
I have given some thought to a delayed vaccination schedule as I do think vaccinations have been helpful preventative aid in the past. We will NEVER, EVER, EVER do all 38 of them though especially as they are filled with some pretty toxic "preservatives". Because of this there is a transparency bill being pushed for right now which will require the ingredient list to be available to parents prior to having their children (or themselves) vaccinated. If this gets passed, you'll see...you will see. However I've found a pre-vaccination vitamin regimen in this article that's pretty interesting (8th paragraph down). I asked Dr. Berger about this and he had no comment on it but sometimes when you've trained and worked inside the box for many, many years it's difficult to see outside of it.
Hippocrates had it 100% correct when he said, "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." Of course these days its increasingly harder to find food that will improve your health rather than hinder it. But GMOs, pesticides and soil deficiencies are a topic for another day. The bottom line is that it IS possible and it IS worth it. Perhaps the most amazing thing about the human body is not that it can allow obese people to live as long as they do in that state but that it has the ability to recover from poor health choices at any time so it really isn't ever too late. But it will cost you time, something most people aren't willing to commit when wanting to change their bodies. When you sleep well, exercise every day and you eat the highest quality, lowest inflammation foods you can get your face on, you are making your body into a heavily armed fortress than can withstand A LOT.
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| Just when I thought I couldn't get any bigger... |
In other news, our check up today went well and these 7 (more like 6 since tomorrow is day 1 of week 34.) remaining weeks just can't pass fast enough!!!!! Melissa told me that I should enjoy my uterine babysitter while it lasts and get out and do some things before Jaxen arrives. I'm not sure what this means because right now I physically CAN'T go out and do the things I love anymore. I stopped rock climbing at about 29 or 30 weeks because it became more effort, strain and recovery time than it was worth. (Today was my last jump rope too.) But maybe she was referring to going out to dinner and movies, the stuff I don't really like to do that much anyways. What I would like to do is get a float in before Jaxen arrives but I think I'm out of luck on that too as in June the Colorado River is still pretty high, fast and cold. *SIGH*
OMG. We still don't have a middle name...
OMG. We still don't have a middle name...
ONLY TWO MORE WEEKS OF WORK!!!
So ready to be done.
Although I don't know what I'm going to do with myself at that point...
So ready to be done.
Although I don't know what I'm going to do with myself at that point...
"A child who has always been allowed to move freely develops not only an agile body but also good judgment about what he can and cannot do. Developing goof body image, spatial relations, and a sense of balance helps the child learn not only how to move but also how to fall and how to recover. Children raised this way hardly ever have any serious accidents."
~ Magda Gerber
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