Yakima Family Times

Pediatricians in Yakima have websites that are nearly impossible to find. In fact, when you search for “Yakima Pediatrics” or “Pediatrician in Yakima” What you find is a mishmash of websites, mostly designed to trick you into clicking on ads (Not that I’m complaining if you want to click on mine) But that doesn’t help [...]

Like many other areas, any midwife who wishes to have delivery privileges at Memorial Hospital, must sign a contract stating that they will not assist home births. If you’ve seen The Business of Being Born or Pregnant in America, I probably don’t have to explain why this happens. However, there are midwives in the surrounding [...]

Making handmade soap is a true work of both art and science. I made a batch of handmade soap in 1999, with olive oil, soybean oil, grapeseed oil, lavender essential oil and lye. I have about 14 bars away as gifts and the remaining bars lasted our family almost ten years. Soapmaking had a bad [...]

New mothers; are you having trouble sleeping?  Your baby’s car seat could be to blame. I never thought infant carseat carriers were particularly detrimental.  I didn’t use them with all of of my kids, only the youngest.  I never considered their effects much until I read a recent Mothering magazine article entitled “Car seats are [...]