Naturally Healthy Babies & Children - Softcover

Romm, Aviva Jill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580172857 ISBN 13: 9781580172851

Publisher: Storey Books, 2000

Synopsis

As parents seek a more natural approach to children's health, Aviva Romm offers the most comprehensive and effective compilation of herbal remedies for children from infancy to pre-adolescence. Romm, a mother, midwife, and practicing herbalist with extensive first-hand clinical experience, teaches the practical, empowering steps that parents can take in conjunction with regular medical care to achieve a truly holistic health care approach. With the friendly, reassuring tone of a confident healthcare practitioner, this book offers parents the guidance they need to understand their children's bodies and provide basic preventive health care and home first-aid for common childhood ailments from abscesses to bed-wetting, coughs to hyperactivity, lice to whooping cough.

This book is sure to be cherished by readers as they learn to care for their children -- naturally.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Naturally Healthy Babies and Children is indispensable reading for families seeking safe, effective ways to practice healing techniques at home.

From anemia to whooping cough, this AZ handbook addresses the

common health issues of children, from newborn to preadolescent. Aviva Romm's whole-child approach integrates herbal remedies, nutrition, hygiene,

and alternative health techniques with supportive, informed parenting.

Praise for Naturally Healthy Babies and Children

"Filled with comprehensive information for the healthy whole child."

ó Lesley Tierra, L. Ac., Dip. Ac., author of Herbs of Life

"Like having a wise woman neighbor to call in times of need."

ó Peggy OíMara, Mothering magazine

"An excellent resource for those who are

interested in learning more about natural healing."

ó Dr. Vance Dietz, M.D., M.P.H., T.M.

"Another strand of our Wise Woman wisdom is spun

and woven in this delightful book by Aviva Romm."

ó Susun Weed, author of Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Years

"I would wish this book for all new families, community libraries,

and waiting rooms."

ó Jeannine Parvati Baker, author of Prenatal Yoga and Hygieia; co-author of Conscious Conception; and founder of Hygieia College of Womancraft and Lay Midwifery

Edition details

• Publisher: Storey Books
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580172857
• ISBN 13: 9781580172851
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352