Baby Matters: Evidence supports natural parenting choices; attachment, health, nutrition and colic care.

"The greatest discovery is that the science supports natural, instinctual parenting over all else."
Dr. Linda F. Palmer

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Baby Matters is a groundbreaking new book that only a mother with both rigorous scientific training and an extensive alternative health practice could have assembled. Dr. Linda Palmer uncovers the hidden consequences of parenting choices, both physiological and psychological, and filters out what is not valid or substantiated.

Baby Matters is not just another rehash of conventional advice. Neither is it an extremist's cry. It contains solid, never before published scientific knowledge in easy-to-digest language for the interested new parent.

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Dr. Palmer addresses current issues that receive far too little attention or scientific discussion elsewhere. She gives parents the power to make better decisions about baby care, by unraveling the newest research about hormones and bonding, breastfeeding, the big new problems with antibiotics for treating ear infections (and why they are usually inappropriate anyway), and the real causes of ear infections, colic, GERD, reflux, allergy-sensitivity reactions, and SIDS. Furthermore, she describes exactly how breastfeeding and formula-feeding can produce vastly different mental and physical health outcomes for baby. Finally, Dr. Palmer explains that cow's milk consumption, beginning with formula, is strongly associated with diabetes, lower intelligence, ADHD, early puberty, osteoporosis, and eventually reproductive organ cancers.

"... Dr. Linda Palmer's rebuttals of current mainstream child-rearing trends (artificial infant food, cow's milk consumption) do not stop at their negative impact on infants but rather create a compelling and well-cited argument for their links with lifelong negative complications." -- Journal of Human Lactation"

…filled with scientific research regarding key issues of infant care. Provides parents information on healthy parenting choices in easy-to-digest language. It is a must read for new and expecting families and also an important text for educators." -- International Childbirth Education Association

"The extensively documented Baby Matters... could serve as an attachment parenting primer, covering breastfeeding, bonding, and cosleeping. Palmer also pays a lot of attention to food allergies and immunity protection. " -- Mothering magazine

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What you feed your Baby Matters. How you raise your Baby Matters.
Parents have the power to create and enjoy healthier, happier children with brighter futures.

Baby Matters
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Caring for Your Baby
Revised 2nd Edition: 2008 SILVER IPPY AWARD WINNER (PARENTING)

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