Environment

Second-hand smoke causes fertility problems: Study

Posted on May 25, 2009. Filed under: Environment, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

Canwest News Service
December 4, 2008
WASHINGTON – Women who breathed in second-hand smoke as children or young adults were later more likely to have trouble getting pregnant and suffer more miscarriages than women not exposed to smoke, U.S. researchers reported Thursday.
They said toxins in the smoke could have permanently damaged the women’s bodies, causing the [...]

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Growing Up Green

Posted on May 16, 2008. Filed under: Environment, Fashion and Lifestyle | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Want to wreck the environment? Have a baby. Each bundle of joy gobbles up more of the planet’s food, clogs garbage dumps with diapers, churns through plastic toys and winds up a gas-guzzling, resource-consuming grown-up like the rest of us. Still, babies are awfully cute. Given that most people still intend to procreate, what’s an environmentally conscious parent to do?

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Welcome!

Posted on May 15, 2008. Filed under: Age, Baby Names, Birth Centers, Birth Settings, Birth in the Media, Body Image, Books and Resources, Breastfeeding, Business, Canadian News, Celebrities, Cesarean sections, Doulas, Environment, Exercise, Family Physicians, Fashion and Lifestyle, Fear and Anxiety, Film, Global News, Home Birth, Maternity Care Providers, Mature Moms, Mental Health, Midwives, Nurses, Nutrition, Obesity, Obstetricians, Pain Management, Teen Moms, USA, Water Birth, Weight gain/loss | Tags: , , , |

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Taking baby the earth-friendly route

Posted on April 27, 2008. Filed under: Breastfeeding, Canadian News, Environment, Fashion and Lifestyle | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Corinne Willems is a first-time mom and a self-confessed greenie. While pregnant with her son Nikko, now three-and-a-half months old, Willems learned some disturbing facts about the key ingredient in a popular “no tears” baby shampoo that motivated her to go the earth-friendly route and start making her own baby care products…

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Feds move to ban baby bottles with bisphenol A

Posted on April 19, 2008. Filed under: Canadian News, Environment | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

The government announced Friday that it intends to make Canada the first country in the world to ban baby bottles with the chemical bisphenol A…

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