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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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C-Sections, Antibiotics & Your Child’s Immunity: Must Read for Moms & Moms-To-Be

Microbiome Matters Can a C-section-birth have a lasting impact on your child’s immune system by disrupting the collection of microorganisms (microbiome)  essential for maintaining health? How about the use of antibiotics? Do they wreak more havoc during a particular stage of the child’s development? These are some of the questions explored in Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of […]

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

9/11 Bowing Journal: Beautiful Bandits

I was once one of the “bandits,” this ousted leader urges to target.

Friday, February 21, 2014

Bowing Journal 2/11/14: Just One Thing

It was the 11th. Time to bow. Bow to the Power of Good prevailing in Syria and Iraq, in Woodstock, in the space between you and me. I didn’t want to get out of bed. but I’m the boss and the worker. So calling in sick was not an option. It turned out to be […]

Thursday, February 13, 2014
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My Fertile Valentine: If I Love You…

What does it mean to love someone? What is the one thing you wish to give to your loved ones and the one thing you wish to receive?    

Wednesday, February 5, 2014
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NYT Infertility Diary: Farewell, Amy Klein, Let There Be Light!

It’s fitting that my book Inconceivable made it into the last of the weekly entries of NYT Fertility Diary. Fertile Heart is often the last stop on the baby train.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Fertility Integrity: What Would Pete Seeger Do?

What would Pete Seeger say, I asked myself, if he knew what I know? Would he let it go?
Or would he urge us to “guard well our human chain?”