Natural Pregnancy Project

If you are out there feeling a little lost and alone as a soon to be mom don’t be. There are tons of other women out there who are going through the same things as you.

Here’s a great post that will give you 100 places you can connect with other moms or get information from.  It’s a great collection of sites you will find very helpful. This is an amazing resource for moms to be.

Click here to see 100 best health blogs for soon to be parents

Here are a few of my very favorites from the list:

The Childbirth Connection

The Lactivist

Spinning Babies

Here’s a couple of my favorites that didn’t make the list:

Breastfeeding Moms Unite

Kelly Mom (this is where I got a lot of my initial information when I was first pregnant)

Enjoy the 100 health blogs and the couple extras from me.

Just remember ~

Don’t let 100 new sites to look at get your overwhelmed. Not all sites will feel good to you. Just keep the ones that feel good and fit your idea of parenting, pregnancy and childbirth and let the rest go.

You are the ONLY expert on YOUR pregnancy ~ stay strong, enjoy your pregnancy and if you have any sites that the 100 blog post missed or I missed, leave them below in the comments.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday warned women not to use or purchase Mommy’s Bliss Nipple Cream, marketed by MOM Enterprises Inc. of San Rafael, California.

The cream, promoted to nursing mothers to help soothe dry or cracked nipples, contains ingredients that may cause respiratory distress, vomiting and diarrhea in infants, the agency said.

The potentially harmful ingredients in the cream are chlorphenesin and phenoxyethanol.

“FDA is particularly concerned that nursing infants are being unwittingly exposed by their mothers to this product with dangerous side effects,” said Janet Woodcock, director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. “Additionally, these two ingredients may interact with one another to further compound and increase the risk of respiratory depression in nursing infants.”

The company has stopped selling the cream. The FDA said consumers should stop using the cream and consult a doctor if they experience problems or believe that their infant may have experienced problems due to the product.

Mothers whose children may have suffered adverse effects because of this product should contact the FDA’s MedWatch at 800-332-1088.

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This is why I use 100% organic creams on my little one. For nipple cream I recommend Lansinoh. It is 100% lanolin and is completely safe for both mom and baby. It’s important to keep in mind, everything you put on your skin or your baby’s skin gets into their system. Make sure you look at the ingredients on your diaper rash cream as well as any body wash or shampoo you are using on your baby. I recommend the Earth Mama Angel Baby line of products for safe natural products to use on my baby.

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This is an amazing story and a true testament to the power of the breast.
A chinese policewoman is helping earthquake victims in a very personal way. Not only is she nursing her own new baby, but 7 others as well.

She is nursing the children of 3 mothers who are now homeless due to the earthquake and too traumatized to nurse.

She is also nursing 5 orphans.  The orphans were put in an orphanage after losing their parents, however, the orphanage has no powdered milk to make formula.

This woman is a hero. It is amazing to see just what a woman’s body can do when it needs to.  It’s makes me pretty sad, to hear so many women say “I don’t have enough milk” when it is fairly obvious the body can make more than enough milk for one baby, this woman is feeding 8.

If you want you can read the whole article about the cop who breastfed 8 babies.

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