A natural home-made masque for wrinkles containing honey, cornflower and other ingredients.

In the U.S., the common first food that is gentle on the stomach is baby cereal made of rice. I started my baby on organic cereal made of oatmeal by Earth’s Best. It’s a fantastic cereal that comes in a good size box for a good price. In general, I recommend oatmeal and brown rice cereal over the standard white rice cereal due to a stronger nutritional profile.

After a few months of baby eating solids, I came across a new cereal product, HappyBellies, which is the only organic immunity boosting probiotic dry cereal with DHA on the market.

After some digging and no luck finding non-toxic baby personal care products in my local stores, I came across a one page guide created by cosmeticdatabase.com; Safety Guide to Children’s Personal Care Products (pdf). It is a lifesaver! It is split up into sections: tips, ingredients to avoid, and suggested products by category (that would be available in your store).

There is a new report by PCRM titled The Five Worst Packaged Lunchbox Meals that will blow your mind. In a time when childhood obesity and diseases in the U.S. are at an all time high, I find it alarming that manufacturers are not held to a stricter nutritional guideline.

One of my closest mom friends heard from another friend that too much soy in baby boys affect their estrogen/progesterone balance in the teenage years along with fertility concerns. The research I did on the internet was insufficient so I e-mailed soyhappy.org with my concern. Soy Happy is a consumer advocacy service that promotes and facilitates vegetarian options on mainstream menus. The director of SoyHappy, recently named one of the top “Women to Watch” in the San Francisco East Bay area, forwarded my question to a nutritionist and PhD at PCRM, who in turn wrote an answer for me…