I have been a pediatrician for twenty years and have looked at an estimated 500,000 ears during my medical career. Many times, the eardrums were inflamed or infected-looking. Because of my conventional medical training, residency, and postgraduate medical experience, I often have had to struggle to remember that every one of those ears was attached to a wonderful young child.
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Sue Frederick's book has helped meand would help every doctor, health-care practitioner, and parentremember one crucial fact: A child's body will heal itself naturally if we stay out of the way and use gentle remedies, wisdom, and guidance.
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I have seen the ability my thirteen-year-old daughter, Simone, has to heal herself, and I have watched thousands of other children do the same thing, often dealing with illnesses conventional (Western) treatment couldn't touch. I have also experienced tremendous frustrations when medical tools I acquired through my years of training fell short of alleviating pain and hastening healing.
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We are all looking for ways to promote optimal health, strength, and wellbeing for our children and would like to do this nutritionally and naturally, without resorting to medications with potential side effects.
A Mother's Guide to Raising Healthy ChildrenNaturally
presents plans, details, and feelings in more accessible terms than I have ever seen them before. It is written from the perspective of a loving parent and aimed at other loving, intelligent parents. Sue Frederick's discussion of infant nutrition, vaccines, and infant sleep patterns should be required reading in medical school. The immune system, antibiotics, and disease prevention are covered in a manner that allowed even mea doctorto understand these crucial concepts in a natural light. Specific healing methods, elucidated with choices and concise methods of
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