Elyane T. Brightlight - Book: Natural Childcare

Table of Contents - Natural Childcare

PART ONE

BEFORE BABY

CHAPTER ONE

Natural Childcare In An Un-Natural World
How This Book Can Help You With The Almost Impossible

CHAPTER TWO

Before Pregnancy
Why Are So Many Healthy People Infertile?
Cleansing The Mind Set: Beliefs To Give Up
Natural Fertility: Positive Beliefs
Cleansing The System

CHAPTER THREE

Nutrition for fertility and maintenance: pregnancy and lactation
*Supplements
*Foods, which and why
*Specific foods, herbs and their influence in pregnancy:

CHAPTER FOUR

Pregnancy: the Nitty-Gritty
Some common problems and natural solutions:
*Morning sickness
*Pica
*Constipation
*Reflux
*Insomnia.
*Threatened miscarriage
*Stretch marks
*Skin discolouration
*Backache
*Leg cramps
*Varicose veins
*Vulvar varicose veins
*Amniocentesis
*Ultra-sounds
*Bladder infection
*Thrush
*Herpes
*High blood pressure
*Toxaemia

CHAPTER FIVE

A New Mind Set
Some insights into "what it is going to be like"
Cleansing and preparing the mind.

CHAPTER SIX

The Birth
Looking at reasons for fear and pain: a biological approach.
Techniques from the Old Crone:
*Relaxing mind and body
*Breathing: don't believe anything they tell you: you need to learn how to breathe.
*What to do at which stage of labour
*The support party
*The father
*The popping out

PART TWO

EARLY BABYHOOD

CHAPTER SEVEN

The New Arrival
*Formalities
*Head shape
*Bruises
*Red marks
*Squints
*Umbilical cord
*Hernia
*Jaundice
*Clicky hips
*Funny feet
*Spots
*Yawning
*Bathing the baby
*Nappies content
*Mucous
*Sticky eyes
*What to do with The Placenta
*Paronychia
*Witches milk
*Vaginal bleeding
*Swollen genitals, undescended testicles
*Twins
*Wrapping the baby
*Mother's cuts, grazes and bruises
*Circumcision
*What if?
*Getting acquainted

CHAPTER EIGHT

Living Happily Ever After :Reality sinks in after the exhilaration of birth.
*Emotional and psychological changes
*The importance of not being earnest
*Hormones
*The many levels of fatigue
*Diet
*Post Natal Depression
*Parents and Lovers
*The Body Beautiful

CHAPTER NINE

Feeding the Baby:
*Breast or bottle
*The first days
*Demand feeding
*Demand feeding is not constant feeding
*Caring for the nurse
*More about Food Glorious Food
*No noís
*The appendages
*Check list

*Breastfeeding problems
-posseting
-supply
-unsettled baby
-colic
*Bottle fed babies
*Supplements for babies

CHAPTER TEN

A Baby With No Cryin'
The many reasons why human babies cry and what to do about each of them:
*Hunger
*Discomfort
*Pain
*Fear
*Aggravation
*Frustration

CHAPTER ELEVEN

The New Dad
Every thing the new father felt but was terrified of talking about

CHAPTER TWELVE

For the grand parents: how to chill out, really enjoy your grand child and not bother your own children

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Night Is For Sleeping:
Yes, your child will sleep at night if you follow some simple principles.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Super Women:
Single mothers and Working mothers.

PART THREE

FROM BABYHOOD TO
THE AGE OF REASON

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Immunisation
The proís, the cons, how to do it and when

Since this book was originally published in 1999, immunisation in Australia protocols have changed, see update for details

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Weaning
Another long and detailed chapter as this is not only a huge stumbling block at the time it occurs but often decides on the nutritional and gastronomic future of the child
Lots of details of not only what, when and how much but also why and why not.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

They call them the terrible twos, don't they?
Do all babies turn into dictators when they turn two or is it simply their parents doing?
Apart from discipline and comparing the development of toddlers in other cultures and other species this will bring diet into focus again.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

From Babyhood to The Age of Reason
*Potty training
*Discipline
*Learning and creativity
*Public enemies 1 and 2
*Exercise
*School
*Balance and Consciousness

PART FOUR

BABYHOOD AND CHILDHOOD DISEASES
AND THE NATURAL WAY TO MANAGE THEM

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Is it or is it NOT ADD?

CHAPTER TWENTY

Principles and Remedies.
Fever
Headache
Acupuncture for children

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

BABYHOOD
Posseting
Cradle cap
Hiccups
Thrush
Teething
Nappy rash

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO

RESPIRATORY DISEASES
Remedies
Cold and sinusitis
Influenza
Cough
Croup
Bronchitis
Pneumonia
Antibiotics
Getting medicines down
Asthma
Ears
Sore throat, swollen glands, tonsillitis

CHAPTER TWENTY THREE

GASTRO-INTESTINAL TRACT
Tummy ache
Burping and flatulence
Vomiting
Diarrhoea
Constipation
Food poisoning
Worms
Anal fissure
Allergies
Appendicitis
Coeliac disease
Hernias

CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR

URO-GENITAL TRACT
Bed wetting
Cystitis
Vaginal inflammation and infection
Swollen scrotum
The silent disease

CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE

SKIN
Ring worm
Warts
Scabies
Contact dermatitis
Prickly heat (heat rash)
Boils
Urticaria (Hives)
Eczema
Psoriasis

CHAPTER TWENTY SIX

EYES
Conjunctivitis
Sties
Vision problems

CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN

INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Chicken pox
Diphtheria
Herpes simplex
Hib disease
Measles
Mumps
Meningitis
Poliomyelitis
Rubella
Rheumatic Fever
Scarlet fever
Whooping cough

CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT

ACHES PAINS LUMPS AND BUMPS
Cuts
Bruises
Burns
Insect bites and stings
Sprains, joint pains
Growing pains
Broken bones
Paleness, tiredness, anaemia, failure to thrive

CHAPTER TWENTY NINE

GENETIC DISEASES

CHAPTER THIRTY

OPERATIONS AND HOSPITALISATION
Pre and post operative programs

CHAPTER THIRTY ONE

Parenthood