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@kaferty One thing you could consider is boosting your babies microbiomes with appropriate probiotics. This is a known disadvantage to babies born by c-section and would logically have some impact on the immune system. This is speculation, but one possibility.

@nanipardhu I think we started doing this a little later- around 7/8 months after he started some solid foods/purees during the day- but one way we got our baby to back off wanting feedings at night was by offering him water, or water with milk for the first one, then for the second so that he...

@al8115 Yeah I read about this. I try to never touch them now and wash my hands before touching my kid. This stuff is everywhere though... we live in an extremely toxic modern world unfortunately, you can only control so much

@strange1 I have a good friend with two brilliant and well-adjusted children in SF. They're like the kids who you meet and hope your kids will be as good as them. I hope that gives you some solace! Not sure about your pediatrician... that just seems awfully uninformed. And if your child's lead...

@strange1 I'm sorry to hear that, that sounds like a frightening place to live. Don't know what country you're in, but every type of blood lead test that we've gotten here (in the US)- capillary and venous- tested down to 0.9. Never heard of one that didn't. These were just the standard tests...

@strange1 Why should we accept that? It's completely avoidable brain damage. I will never accept that it's ok for my son to have suffered permanent brain damage in the first year of his life. Tests are much, much more sensitive than you appear to be aware of. The lead abatement contractor we...

@strange1 This is incorrect, it takes unbelievably small amounts to cause permanent damage from lead poisoning. Unfortunately.

@e31 Lead is not naturally occurring in our human environment. That is a frequently parroted misconception. Lead is naturally occurring in the Earth's crust and it should stay there. It is so, so much worse for humans and natural living things than 99% of the substances that people in this sub...

@francolepza Yeah but sadly her children's lead levels were incredibly high. Low levels are very, very bad for children too.

@charity1 I disagree with this and would urge anyone to reconsider this stance. Lead dust (through inhalation) is a huge problem- our baby had low levels of lead poisoning from lead dust inhalation. People don't like worrying about this for some reason and shit on lead safe mama and deny basic...

@charity1 Thank you. We have several suspected culprits. We live in an old house with stained glass windows (lead in the glass, lead solder, lead paint in the frame.) They can apparently shed lead dust; we removed them for $5k. We had tested the paint with home Depot tests before we moved in and...

@charity1 My son was 4 months old and EBF when he tested positive for lead poisoning. There was no way ingestion could have happened - he didn't take binkies or bottles at the time. Only possible source was lead dust inhalation.

@grace_given17 Great. I appreciate you for tending to dig deeper. So dig. Check out her sources. Here it sounds like you are speculating that they might not be legit. Some things warrant anxiety, unfortunately. Lead poisoning damages every organ in the body, first and foremost the brain and is...

@tfran There was money to be made and lobbyists. You can read up on this, very well documented. Then consider that we're still mining it and that it is not supposed to be in our environment. It is naturally occurring, yes, but in the Earth's crust, exclusively. It is not compatible with...

@ramsby194 I feel you. It's pretty bad, and really exhausting and disheartening as a mom. It's frustrating how many things were/are known to be toxic but evaded, and continue to evade regulation for so, so long. This is the magic of capitalism at work.

@cutin Sadly, this is not the whole picture. There is also a lot that has gotten worse. Application of flame retardants to everything under the sun boomed about a decade ago and is only now slowly being rolled back. PFAS and micro plastic exposures are on the steady increase on account of them...