Boy was I surprised. When you're a parent, all of a sudden the stakes are higher. It's your kid. That makes all the difference in the world, doesn't it?

I remember strapping my screaming 2 day old infant into her car seat at the hospital and thinking, "They aren't really going to let me just walk out of here, are they?"

Yep. They let me just walk out of there. And I was totally responsible for the health of the person I had spent 9 (10!) months creating. And even after all my preparation, I was terrified.

Raising naturally healthy kids has been quite the road. And sometimes, it hasn't felt "natural" at all. From not producing enough milk when my daughter was little to the sheer exhaustion I felt that entire first year, I felt like I was swimming in the proverbial creek, upstream, with no life jacket or paddle.

Every second has been worth it.

My daughters are both naturally healthy kids! They're 5 and 7 years old now (September 2010), and neither of them has been on antibiotics or a pharmaceutical drug for anything. I've found natural remedies for most kids' ailments, and I've learned how to keep their immune systems strong.

Some of the decisions I made I look back on and think "What was I doing?" and others I look at gratefully, for they've helped my kids grow up strong and healthy. Some decisions I made and they scared me (I postponed vaccinations until my oldest was 2 years old - everyone told me I was crazy... "What if she gets sick?" they said) but I made them based on research and conviction. Now, looking back, I don't doubt those decisions at all, and in fact I'm grateful for them.

I hope this website helps you make decisions that allow you to have naturally healthy kids! In these pages I'll share with you what has worked for my kids and what my other mom friends say works for theirs. You'll find natural or homeopathic remedies for most childhood ailments throughout these pages. I truly hope this website helps you keep your kids healthy, naturally. :)

~Andrea

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard. ~John Lennon

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