Worried about termites? Squirrels in the attic driving you nuts? Experts in the pest control field will give you tips on protecting your home from unwanted visitors at this Living Green class at the TRAC, Saturday, November 21 at 10am. Learn from the professionals about safe, organic insect control and humane mammal exclusion & removal. We’ll focus on practical solutions that work without harming the environment. $20 per person. Reserve your place by calling Pauline Schafer at 214-309-5815 or register online at www.trinityriveraudubon.org.

The Trinity River Audubon Center is located at 6500 South Loop 12, just about 2 miles east of interstate 45 in Dallas.

Placenta Encapsulation is a new and rapidly growing postpartum care profession. Through the extensive efforts of Jodi Selander, founder of Placenta Benefits.info (PBi), and her network of Placenta Encapsulation Specialist throughout the United States placenta encapsulation is becoming a well known and highly sought after postpartum care service. First looked at as an on-the-fringe trend, as placental use is not as common in our country as it is in other countries, placenta encapsulation is now being brought to the forefront of postpartum care as a well established and scientifically researched and sound practice that has enormous benefits to a postpartum mother during postpartum recovery. Placenta Encapsulation Specialists are self-employed and able to set their own clientele load, hours of work, and fees.

Leigh Anne DuChene, is the DFW, Texas area’s only Certified Placenta Encapsulation Specialist, and is now the area’s Placenta Encapsulation Specialist Manager, as PBi and Leigh Anne DuChene, of DuChene Natural Health Center, actively seek out interested women for Placenta Encapsulation Specialist Training in the Dallas and Fort Worth Metroplex area and other areas of Texas, as well.

As a Placenta Encapsulation Specialist you are a postpartum wellness resource to your clients. You provide a service, answer questions about postpartum healing, wellness, and care, and you refer them to appropriate resources for postpartum care when necessary. Postpartum care issues can include, but are not limited to, postpartum depression issues, physical recovery, emotional recovery, postpartum nutrition, lactation or breastfeeding, lactation nutrition, and various other postpartum issues. You are not expected to have all the answers, you are instead the postpartum mother’s resource to connect her with those who can answer her questions or assist her in her needs.

The Placenta Training Course through PBi teaches you proper preparation methods according to Traditional Chinese Medicine, educates you on the benefits of placental use, teaches you how to answer questions about placental use, educates you on the OSHA, EPA, and FDA safety protocols, requires that you get your food safety & handlers training for your area, and teaches you through hands-on training how to prepare the placenta for mother safely, properly, and legally.

If you are interested in becoming a Placenta Encapsulation Specialist, or have questions about the training or service, please contact Leigh Anne DuChene at LeighAnne@DuCheneNaturalHealth.com.

For information on the research and benefits of placental use please visit www.placentabenefits.info/articles.asp.

Dallas/Fort Worth DiaperFreeBaby will hold its monthly meeting Thursday, Nov. 19 at 10 a.m. at the indoor play area of Irving Bible Church in Irving.  DiaperFreeBaby is a network of free support groups promoting a natural approach to responding to babies’ elimination needs. This practice is followed worldwide and is known as elimination communication, natural infant hygiene and infant potty training. The process involves observing one’s baby’s signs and signals, providing cue sounds and elimination-place associations, and can be done with or without any diaper use.

Event details:

Thursday, Nov. 19th

10 AM – 12 PM

Irving Bible Church
2435 Kinwest Parkway
Irving, TX 75063

Contact Natalie for more meeting details at 817-637-9156.

Visit DiaperFreeBaby online or join the local group.

Sunday, November 15, 2009, marks the 12th anniversary of America Recycles Day. America Recycles Day is a day that encourages us all to recycle and to purchase recycled products. This day was created by a partnership between Keep America Beautiful, Inc. and the National Recycling Coalition. Unite with other recylcing fans across America at LOCAL North Texas area events being held in:

Allen
Arlington
Colleyville
Coppell
Flower Mound
Fort Worth
Dallas
Glenn Heights
Grapevine
Irving
Lancaster
Mesquite
Plano
Richardson
Richland Hills

And many more areas throughout Texas!

For a complete list of all cities in Texas holding America Recycles Day events, and for the event details of the cities listed above please visit: America Recycles Day.org

Written by: Catharine Paddock, PhD

From: Medical News Today.com

US researchers who transplanted human intestinal microbes into germ-free mice and then switched their diet from a low-fat plant-based one to a more Westernized diet, high in fat and sugars, found that within one day obesity-linked microbes were thriving in the gut and the mice eventually became obese.

The study was the work of Dr Jeffrey I Gordon and colleagues and was published on 11 November in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Gordon, the senior author of the study, is director of the Center for Genome Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.

Gordon and colleagues wrote how over time, compared with mice kept on a low-fat, plant-based diet, the “humanized” mice fed the Westernized high-fat, high-sugar diet diet became obese, and that their weight gain patterns followed shifts in the types of bacteria present in their gut.

Read MORE.

The Homebirth Association of North Dallas (HAND) will be holding their Dallas area monthly meeting on Tuesday November 17th. Certified Professional Midwife, Molly Germash, of Hearts Desire Midwifery, will be leading the meeting on the following topics:

What does an ideal birth team look like and how can we arrange it – for a hospital birth, a birth center birth, or a home birth. If a midwife is involved, who assists her, how, and why? What components of birth produce deep joy and satisfaction when it is all over?

This is a great topic for any birthing woman or couple so please feel free to invite hospital birthing friends or even friends that are still just thinking about having babies.

When: Tuesday, November 17th 11 am-1 pm
Where: 330 Buttonwood Court, Coppell
Children and spouses very welcome!
Bring a potluck dish to share

Contact: Maria for more details or questions (bpokluda@yahoo. com or 214.223.0226)

Join the HAND Yahoo group or visit their website.

by: Ethan Huff

From NaturalNews.com

For years, baby formula manufacturers have been fortifying and reformulating their blends in an effort to poise their products as equal or superior to natural breast milk. Beginning in 2002, many producers began supplementing their mixtures with synthetic forms of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and arachidonic acid (ARA), the long-chain fatty acids naturally present in breast milk. Evidence is now showing that the synthetic versions are detrimental to the health of children, despite their continued usage in almost every available brand of infant formula.

Read MORE…

Dallas/Fort Worth Baby Wearing group will be holding their monthly social meet-up on Sunday, November 15th in Plano.

Come to meet other baby wearing moms and bring your stash to show off!

Meeting details:

Sunday, Nov. 15th

3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Meeting Location:
1804 Lake Hill Ln
Plano, TX 75023

Visit the DFW Babywearing group for more information about babywearing and the Dallas and Fort Worth area meetups.

North Texas Natural Family has implemented a community involvement program where we work directly with non-profit organizations that are working to make a difference in our world with positive social and economic change toward a more sustainable future, and with families in need during the holiday season.

Our very first community involvement program is our “Holiday of Love” program where one family in the North Texas area will be nominated to receive support during the up coming holiday season. We are accepting nominations for this family during the month of November. The “Holiday of Love” program will officially begin on December 1st and end on December 22nd. We will be collecting donations of money and items that will ALL go directly to provide for this family during the holiday season.

The family that is chosen to participate in our “Holiday of Love” program may receive:

• Food for a holiday meal (food will be healthy versions of traditional holiday meals from either Whole Foods, Central Market, or Sprouts)
• Clothing and other necessary items that each family member may need
• A specially requested item for each family member
• Any special gifts made by YOU for the family! (This is great for all you crafters out there and a GREAT way to get the children involved in the Holiday of Love!)
• Holiday cards sent to the family from YOU!

Again, the program will begin on December 1st. A list of all the items needed will be posted along with the expected cost of these items. Monetary donations toward the purchase of the family’s holiday meal and items will be accepted via an online donations button, mail, or a “Holiday of Love” drop-off location. Any items that you would like to purchase or make yourself will be accepted via mail or a “Holiday of Love” drop-off location. Mailing address and “Holiday of Love” drop-off locations for receiving these items and donations will be posted on December 1st. This donation drive  will end on December 22nd and all items collected will be distributed to the family on December 23rd.

To nominate a family in need for our “Holiday of Love” program please email us your name and contact information along with the family’s name and contact information that is being nominated, to admin@NorthTexasNaturalFamily.com with “Holiday of Love program nominee” as your email subject.

If you would like to be an official “Holiday of Love” drop-off location please contact us at admin@NorthTexasNaturalFamily.com.

For questions about the program please contact us at admin@NorthTexasNaturalFamily.com.

For more information about our community involvement programs visit our Community Involvement page.

From the Ends of the Earth is a fair trade world imports store located on West Davis in Dallas, TX. Everything this place carries is from fair trade organizations and cooperatives. They specialize in bringing quality handmade arts and crafts from around the world to our local community!

Visit them online at From the Ends of the Earth or visit their store located in Historic Oak Cliff on the corner of Davis and Tyler:

839 W. Davis, Dallas, TX 75208

Hours of Operation:

Tuesday – Friday: 11 am – 6 pm
Saturday: 11 am – 7 pm

Join their e-mail list to learn about specials and store events by going to their website.

Visit www.FromtheEndsoftheEarth.com