greenmoms
If possible, choose to breastfeed. It is the most
natural way to feed your baby. Though formula
may be easier, the containers that hold the for-
mula and the product inside requires our earth’s
energy and resources.
Even though our minds race with worry and
sore with dreams for our tiny infants to fulfill, we
have another aspect of their lives that we need
to remember: caring for our planet earth so it
can continue to care for them long after we are
The Holistic Moms Network is a non-profit
gone. It is time for us to look back at how our
support and resource organization connecting
parents who are interested in holistic health
mothers’ mothers did it all those years before
and green living. HMN was founded in 2003
us, and to balance the best modern motherhood
by a handful of moms yearning for the support
and friendship of others parenting outside
has to offer today. It may mean we need to do
the mainstream. Today, thanks to the ever-
some dirty work, and it may mean we have to sa- increasing popularity of alternative medicine
crifice some luxuries of mothering. In the end,
and a growing environmental consciousness,
HMN has over 120 chapters across the U.S.
we can feel like we have done something to help.
and Canada. HMN is informing thousands of
Our children will see that the earth is important
people about the benefits of holistic health
to us. Because of our example, it will become
and green living.
important to them too.
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