Naturally Healthy Babies & Children: A Commonsense Guide to Herbal Remedies [Paperback]

Aviva J. Romm C.P.M. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 9, 2000

As parents seek a more natural approach to children's health, Aviva Romm offers the most comprehensive and effective compilation of herbal remedies for children from infancy to pre-adolescence. Romm, a mother, midwife, and practicing herbalist with extensive first-hand clinical experience, teaches the practical, empowering steps that parents can take in conjunction with regular medical care to achieve a truly holistic health care approach. With the friendly, reassuring tone of a confident healthcare practitioner, this book offers parents the guidance they need to understand their children's bodies and provide basic preventive health care and home first-aid for common childhood ailments from abscesses to bed-wetting, coughs to hyperactivity, lice to whooping cough.

This book is sure to be cherished by readers as they learn to care for their children -- naturally.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Naturally Healthy Babies and Children is indispensable reading for families seeking safe, effective ways to practice healing techniques at home.

From anemia to whooping cough, this AZ handbook addresses the

common health issues of children, from newborn to preadolescent. Aviva Romm's whole-child approach integrates herbal remedies, nutrition, hygiene,

and alternative health techniques with supportive, informed parenting.

Praise for Naturally Healthy Babies and Children

"Filled with comprehensive information for the healthy whole child."

ó Lesley Tierra, L. Ac., Dip. Ac., author of Herbs of Life

"Like having a wise woman neighbor to call in times of need."

ó Peggy OíMara, Mothering magazine

"An excellent resource for those who are

interested in learning more about natural healing."

ó Dr. Vance Dietz, M.D., M.P.H., T.M.

"Another strand of our Wise Woman wisdom is spun

and woven in this delightful book by Aviva Romm."

ó Susun Weed, author of Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Years

"I would wish this book for all new families, community libraries,

and waiting rooms."

ó Jeannine Parvati Baker, author of Prenatal Yoga and Hygieia; co-author of Conscious Conception; and founder of Hygieia College of Womancraft and Lay Midwifery

About the Author

Aviva Romm is a certified professional midwife and president of the American Herbalists Guild. She has been an herbal medicine consultant to Reader's Digest Books and Baby Talk, Self, and New Woman magazines. She is co-author of ADHD Alternatives (Storey Books) and Naturally Healthy Babies and Children as well as The Natural Pregnancy Book. Aviva lives with her husband and her four children in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 435 pages
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (August 9, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580172857
• ISBN-13: 978-1580172851
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #248,294 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #60 in Books > Parenting & Relationships > Family Health

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is absolutely priceless., May 20, 2002

By 

Melanie "mongoliamel" (Cass Lake, MN, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Naturally Healthy Babies & Children: A Commonsense Guide to Herbal Remedies (Paperback)

You will find more information packed in here than you would in five traditional childcare books. Aviva fills the pages with not only commonsense but easy-to-read-and-understand remedies for a wide array of childhood illnesses and complaints. She also includes a lot of information for expecting moms that are healthy, effective words of wisdom. If you are familiar with using herbals and a hands-on approach to illness, then this book is a refreshing compilation of information that will result in you nodding your head in agreement. It is also wonderful to have all the different illnesses and remedies in one place. No more searching for that stray note or book with one quick blurb about a possible remedy for this or that. If, on the other hand, you are not familiar with using anything but a regular doctor or over-the-counter medicine for every illness, this book will be comforting for you as well. It is not an anti-doctor approach at all; in fact there are certain areas in which Aviva mentions that using a doctor is necessary. However, she also includes things that the parent can do to accompany the doctor's techniques. Everything in this entire book is very empowering to parents and women who are expecting. Often, the first thing we are told to turn to is an over-the-counter med or a quick trip to the doctor's office, and we are left feeling helpless to comfort our children. Aviva stresses how important and powerful the mere touch of a parent is in the healing of a child, and she supports the idea that there is emotional healing to be done as well as physical healing for any illness. The herb list is extensive and there are many easy-to-follow directions for tonics, teas, washes and other healing ideas that can be made at home, even by a sleep-deprived parent. The remedies do not involve a lot of searching for hard-to-find ingredients or supplies. Each remedy is simple and starts with a non-invasive approach. I recommend this book for any expecting couple, new or experienced parent. You will find yourself turning to it again and again .
-Reviewed by Amy Rawson

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST HAVE, February 20, 2003

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Darwi Odrade "_odrade_" (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Naturally Healthy Babies & Children: A Commonsense Guide to Herbal Remedies (Paperback)

I was given this book as a gift and it certainly has been one! I have not found another herbal book that measures up to this one. Aviva's simple and beautiful explainations, instructions, and information are so welcome and refreshing.

If you're looking for a herbal/wholistic health book for your family THIS is the one you want.

4.0 out of 5 stars Very informative, December 30, 2002

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melissa (Ontario, CANADA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Naturally Healthy Babies & Children: A Commonsense Guide to Herbal Remedies (Paperback)

This book has lots of great usefull information that crossreferences beautifully. I highly reccomend it to anyone with small children or a spouse that just acts like one. This definitive guide illustrates many helpful applications for all times in a child's life, as well as pregnancy, post partum and beyond. You NEED this book.