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Boy Gets Diagnosed with Autism After 32 Shots#Vaccines#ASD#iBelieve

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by Augustina Orsino

Like millions of parents before her, Natalie Steffen was faced with her children receiving pediatric vaccines starting after birth and during subsequent well child visits. This story is one mother’s journey to exempt her children from further vaccinations.

Natalie gave birth to her firstborn daughter Skylar in October 2004. Skylar received all the shots on the schedule, starting with the hepatitis B vaccine, given within the first 12 hours of life. Skylar reacted to the vaccines, but her parents didn’t know their daughter was suffering side effects and adverse reactions to them.

This is How the Nightmare Began

After her first hep B shot, Skylar immediately began to suffer from colic. Up until age one, she would cry every night at the same time for about an hour and a half before she went to sleep. She had horrible night terrors from age 2-4 years before these finally ceased.

When Natalie had Skylar, she had no idea vaccine injuries were prevalent and never thought to question this link…

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Thank you Natalie, for sharing an inside picture into the life of an autistic child, and assisting others to make more informed choices.

 I appreciate your honesty, and for clarifying that you, like many parents, love and will stand by your child every step, but if you had known the risks of vaccines, then you would not have put your son at risk in the first place. 

Thank you for your humility, and educating others that do not know the inside picture of autism. You are a hero among women.

God be with you.

Your sister in truth,  jen

How Anyone Can Eat Healthy On A Tight Budget#family#iBelieve#MS

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By JJ Virgin

 A few years ago, while promoting The Virgin Diet, I spoke at a local health food store. Afterwards, during the Q&A, the last question caught me off-guard. “How do you expect a mom with an out-of-work husband and three children to afford grass-fed beef?” asked a woman from the back row.

I had my answers in place. Healthy food becomes inexpensive health care, I reasoned, and those bargain menus aren’t such a great deal when you factor in bigger-picture issues like obesity and diabetes. If grass-fed beef becomes too expensive, simply stick with mostly plant foods.

Yet her question stayed with me. As a single mom with two teenage sons, I understood her situation all too well.

I became determined to dig a little deeper about eating healthy without spending half your paycheck. On my drive home that day, I brainstormed these 10 effective strategies. I’ve long employed them to stretch even the tightest food budget…

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If you could have a glimpse into your parents/grandparents past, everyday lives#iBelieve#health#ufollowme

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If you have spent time perusing my blog, you will probably find that I have a love of learning, especially in those things that benefit our health, freedoms, and family life.

As of late, I have noticed benefits in returning to some old ways.  You know, cooking from scratch more, Knowing what is in the food you feed your family.  I have to chuckle, because that liver and onions my mom used to make, is probably loaded with good benefits. 

My mom grew up on a family farm, and knew a lot about cooking, and food.  She would mill her own wheat, freeze hand-picked corn, make homemade jellies, and the like.  I used to feel guilty about the butter, and homemade hot cocoa made from whole, raw milk. 

Now I wish I could go back and observe all the little details of my mother’s, and grandmother’s cooking.  With discussion of nutrient dense foods, I find a lot of them sound like what I used to find on my dinner table growing up.

Vegetables from a family garden, bulk higher quality grains, and meats that source from the nutrient rich parts of the animal.  Less processed foods, and making choices of grocery items that have short, recognizable ingredient lists.

What I would give, to go back and observe first hand, and learn little tips from their ways.  How I appreciate all the little details that I can remember. We have a lot of fun as siblings when we reminisce, and try to recall as much as we can.