kindproject http://blog.kindproject.com Inspired by a fake story Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:10:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 en Is fido good for johny jr? http://blog.kindproject.com/2008/05/06/is-fido-good-for-johny-jr/ http://blog.kindproject.com/2008/05/06/is-fido-good-for-johny-jr/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 11:44:14 +0000 jonathan to lazy to categorize baby health http://blog.kindproject.com/2008/05/06/is-fido-good-for-johny-jr/ My wife and I have long believed that the anti-bacterial germaphobed American masses have lost touch with the natural cycle of life. Ashes to ashes dust to dust is lost on the control-freak, ocd culture of Americans. I am a firm believer in “the Hygiene Hypothesis, formulated by the epidemiologist David Strachan about 20 years ago, argued that children’s immune systems were not being sufficiently challenged - because of falling family size and increasingly sterile homes - to learn how to fend off diseases. The result was that once harmless invaders, such as cat hair, triggered immune overreactions (this is what constitutes an allergy). In the late Nineties, the evidence for Strachan’s hunch was snowballing: kids in daycare showed lower rates of asthma than infants kept at home, suggesting that immunity might be conferred by early contact with other children.”

In the latest news, scientists now believe that my dog, melba, helps the immune system of my baby, emma. Just one more reason why dog is mans best friend!

Last week our news pages quoted a study from the National Research Centre for Environmental Health in Munich saying that children lessen their risk of being sensitive to allergens if they grow up with a dog. Professor Joachim Heinrich and colleagues found that children raised with a dog had fewer allergy markers, such as antibodies to pollen, house-dust mites, cat and dog dander and mould spores. He told the European Respiratory Journal that a dog’s presence in early childhood encourages the immune system to develop less sensitivity to allergies such as asthma, eczema and hay fever.

- Times online

]]> http://blog.kindproject.com/2008/05/06/is-fido-good-for-johny-jr/feed/ itzbeen, by geek for baby geek http://blog.kindproject.com/2008/03/03/itzbeen-by-geek-for-baby-geek/ http://blog.kindproject.com/2008/03/03/itzbeen-by-geek-for-baby-geek/#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:58:22 +0000 jonathan tag & bag baby http://blog.kindproject.com/2008/03/03/itzbeen-by-geek-for-baby-geek/
I’m declaring the most useful baby item through day 4 as a present from Jason, the itzbeen. For the baby by numbers set, which seems to be popular now with the resurgence of breast feeding, the itzbeen provides five clocks in one. Besides the clock time, you have minute increment counters for, diapers, feeding, sleeping and some unknown thing peditricians and other “professional” baby consultants have yet decided you should track. We have been utilizing the diaper and feeding clocks only and then transferring times to a worksheet the educator for the child rearing class gave us on the first day at the hospital, the kellymom breastfeeding log. Maybe this is useful, but the little switch to indicate which side the mother feed on last has no use as mom can feel which side is full. In general though its a cool little gadget. Next on the list of frivolous but kind of cool will be the purchase of Breast Milk Alcohol Test 8 Pack

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Emma Lilly Kind, 6.9 lbs, 18 inches, born 2:35 AM Feb 29th 2008.

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