Amber Hinds

Nantucket

  • Wordless Wednesday: Brant Point

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  • Vaccines and Infant Mortality

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    I recently came across a new study by Neil Miller and Gary Goldman in the Journal of Human & Experimental Toxicology comparing the infant mortality rates (IMRs) and vaccine requirements in developed countries.  The study, titled “Infant mortality rates regressed against number of vaccine doses routinely given: Is there a biochemical or synergistic toxicity?“, compared…

  • Saturday Surfing

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    Finds of the week: The Baby Project: Share Your Story, NPR – NPR is looking for expectant mothers to be part of a special project where they document that final month leading to delivery.  If your due date is mid-July and you’d like to be considered for the project, please fill out the form on…

  • Cheaper Greener Cleaning

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    While watching shows online, I’ve been seeing a lot of this Downy commercial for their “April Fresh” laundry detergent or fabric softener or something.  Basically, they put a bed on the street so people can smell the sheets, which have been washed 7 days previously.  No one believes them that it’s been 7 days because…

  • Wordless Wednesday: Teensy-Tiny Streets

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  • Extended Breastfeeding

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    You know you’re an attachment parent when your toddler takes her baby doll to town not in a stroller, but a baby carrier. You also know you’re an attachment parent when you spend way more time than necessary thinking about the portrayal of extended nursing on last night’s television show. Chris was excited to discover…

  • Saturday Surfing

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    Finds of the Week: An Author Returns To ‘The Little House’ All Things Considered – I loved these books, too, as a girl; I think they might be what started my interest in voluntary simplicity and (unsuccessful) attempt in college to spent a summer with an Amish family. Hitting the Bottle, NY Times – OpEd…

  • Nighttime Parenting

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    Infant and toddler sleep may be one of the most controversial aspects of parenting.  There are dozens of philosophies and ideas about where, how, and for how long babies should sleep.  Alone.  In the parent’s room.  In a bassinet.  In a co-sleeper (how that turns out).  In the parent’s bed.  On their backs.  Swaddled.  Or,…

  • Wordless Wednesday: Wind

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    I thought it would be fun to do “Wordless Wednesday” posts for a while.  If you aren’t familiar with the concept, it’s when bloggers post a photograph with no words to explain it on their blog. The idea is that the photo itself says so much that it doesn’t need any description.  (Obviously, today is…

  • Hiring Help

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    In the world of parenting blogs, there has been much discussion lately of how we “do it all”: cooking healthy and homemade meals, maintaining an immaculate house, and raising perfect and adorable children, all while finding time to blog about it.  Of course, the answer is, we don’t.  No one “does it all”.  The meals…

  • Mother’s Day

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    One of my first memories is of hiding from my mother. I was seven or eight.  My brother, Brandon, and I were crouched behind the living room sofa just steps from the kitchen where we had snitched cookie dough from the refrigerator.  We huddled behind a wall of yellow fabric, fortified with foam and springs,…

  • Saturday Surfing

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    Finds of the Week Child-Care Money Has Biggest Effect on Fertility WSJ — Government money spent on child care to help families manage work-life balance helps raise fertility rates more than money given directly to families to subsidize births, according to a report released today by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).  So…