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Toddler Wars Day 5

The food wars just keep getting better! Annabelle is branching out and trying new things. Not everything that I put on her plate but for the most part she’s trying at least something. Annabelle used to have yogurt or oatmeal (steel cut) for breakfast pretty much every morning for breakfast up until she was about […]

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Food Wars Days 3-4

Day three was quite a disaster. Annabelle woke up at 5am with a fever. No fun. Lots of drool, chubby cheeks and a fever can only mean one thing. More teeth. I think I’m going to throw a party in honor of the last tooth coming in because this is exhausting. One of the things […]

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Food Wars – Day 2

And the battle continues. I want to try to expand Annabelle’s palate a little with new foods. Or better yet, foods that she used to like and has suddenly become too picky to eat. So I pulled out one of my old breakfast favorite. Brown rice pudding. When I was single and lived in NYC […]

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Food Wars – Day One

Thursday was the first day of the our food war. All real fresh food, or nothing. I was terrified that Annabelle would either not eat anything at all and be terribly grumpy and irritated or that she’d decide she would just nurse all day instead of eating. Here’s what happened… She nursed in the morning […]

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Toddler Food Wars

Lately Annabelle and I have been going through some food wars. We’ve fallen into a rut and she doesn’t want to eat anything. Except raisins, crackers and spinach cakes. I’m pretty sure it started around the same time our breakfast wars began and it’s gotten increasingly worse, seeping into other meals. Annabelle loves pre-packaged frozen […]

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My Fox News Articles

Recently I’ve written a few articles for FOX Health News at the request of Dr. Manny Alvarez, Senior managing health editor of Fox News. Although I have posted them on my Facebook page which hopefully you follow, I haven’t posted them on my blog. Here are the links : Common Breastfeeding Myths Nourishing Diets for […]

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Choosing the right daycare

For most working moms I know the road to choosing a daycare and entrusting their child to the care of someone they hardly know is completely terrifying. There are so many questions to ask, so many things to look for and that all important gut-feeling. The whole process is heart wrenching. The process of choosing a […]

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Healthy Toddler Snacks

Recently I’ve been on a mission to put together a list of healthy, non-processed toddler snacks. I was inspired by a friend who made a New Years resolution to not feed her toddler any processed food. What a fabulous idea, why didn’t I think of that? I try to stay away from processed as much […]

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Breakfast Wars

Getting Annabelle to eat breakfast is still a struggle. I long for the days where she used to eat yogurt and fruit and be happy about it, sadly those days are long gone and I now have a toddler thats a picky eater on my hands. Annabelle used to eat breakfast at daycare, which meant I […]

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Easter Candy Alternatives

It seems like every holiday is another excuse to give kids candy. Cookies for Christmas, chocolate for Valentines Day and now jelly beans and chocolate bunnies for Easter.  I won’t give Annabelle a basket revolving around highly processed sugar filled treats made with refined flour and high fructose corn syrup.  There are plenty of other […]

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