Browsing archives for October, 2009

Is Your Lifestyle Preventing You From Having Kids

+Mom's Tips 29 October 2009 | View Comments

Lifestyle has a lot to do without being able to conceive. Couples who can’t conceive are just starting to get a grip on this important fact. The factors that are known to increase the risk of both male and female infertility include many other lifestyle related matters such as smoking, drinking alcohol to excess, stress, [...]

Infertility is Not Always the Woman’s Fault

+Mom's Tips 26 October 2009 | View Comments

Infertility is a problem that affects millions of couples all over the world every year as they vainly struggle to create the baby for whom they are so desperate. Infertility is also a problem that can affect both partners as it is not something that is restricted to one gender or the other either. Indeed, [...]

Why You Should Give Your Kids A Massage

+Mom's Tips 23 October 2009 | View Comments

Giving your kids a massage is more than just a way of expressing affection. Rubbing your child’s skin and manipulating his or her muscles has many benefits. With massage, you can include all of the following positives: Massage is deeply relaxing for the recipient; • It is a holistic form of treatment that treats every [...]

Preventing Jet Lag For You and Kids

+Mom's Tips 20 October 2009 | View Comments

The holiday season is coming up and since my folks live across the ocean it looks like we are all going to be dealing with some jet lag. However over the years I have practiced a few tips which have helped prevent it from getting too bad. Before you get on the plane … Make [...]

Natural Treatments for Air and Motion Sickness

+Mom's Tips 18 October 2009 | View Comments

There are various homoeopathic treatments for motion sickness that you might consider using as an alternative to the medical drugs highlighted earlier. After all if they are good enough for the royal family they are good enough for me! The most common of these homoeopathic treatments are as follows: Cocculus Indicus: This is probably the [...]

Tips For Avoiding Motion Sickness

+Mom's Tips 15 October 2009 | View Comments

Probably the best way to avoid motion sickness or air sickness to practice some preventative measures before you get in a car, train or plane. These are simple things to do with lifestyle that you and your kid can do to ward off the possibility. For example, for two or three days before the flight, [...]

How Doctors Treat Motion Sickness

+Mom's Tips 12 October 2009 | View Comments

Sometimes it is impossible to do anything about your kid’s motion sickness problem. It just will simply require medical treatment and that is that (unless you want to resort to some kind of expensive surgery on the inner ear.) There are quite a few over-the-counter medical treatments for air sickness almost all of which should [...]

Why Kids (and Adults) Get Motion Sickness

+Mom's Tips 6 October 2009 | View Comments

There is nothing worse than having a sick kid in the back of your car except for maybe having a sick kid on a train or a plane. All forms of motion sickness happen because there is a lack of balance between the information being fed to the brain by the three parts of the [...]