About
I have three children, (2 girls, 1 boy), ages 8, 9, and 10. It was after my first child was born that I became truly concerned about the state of our food and air. 
Organic produce had to be found for the first solid food I introduced to my baby. Soy formula, I decided, wasn’t safe anymore now that Monsanto was going to ruin it with their special herbicide reminiscent of Agent Orange. And what about indoor air quality?
Suddenly I worried about more than just what went on with my own body, and I really began to stress out over it. I hadn’t used aluminum foil in the kitchen, or even deodorant with aluminum, for a long, long time, and that was all well and good, but what about the harm I had done to my body before that? Would my children suffer because of it? After all, toxins do get stored in the body for a long time, maybe forever….
When my second child was born with Down Syndrome I didn’t feel that I had anything to do with it other than being over the age of 35 (although I know many mothers of children with Downs who are in their 20’s!), but a few years ago a report came out that seemed to suggest that certain undesirable substances in the mother’s body could potentially produce a baby that had a chromosomal abnormality.
One just never knows. I feel there are things I might have avoided in my life had I know the far reaching consequences (potentially, anyway), but at the same time I keep myself sane by acknowledging that I did what I thought was right, or at least ok, based on what I knew then. The knowledge that is available to us now wasn’t available then, and therefore, I can’t really blame myself unless I think not being a prophet makes me a bad person.
My mission with this blog is to draw attention to certain things that I wish I had known earlier, and to raise awareness so that people can at least decide for themselves what they want to do, instead of doing something just because they didn’t know any better. The purpose of my blog is not to make anyone paranoid!
