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Health + Safety

From diet to exercise, making the health + safety of our families is a priority in order to feel our best. Use the health + safety category to find articles and resources written by other mamas and local professionals to help guide you on your mothering journey. 

Fort Worth Moms publishes original, personal stories and advice from local moms, as well as relevant and fun information for those of us in the trenches of parenthood. 

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Families that are not personally walking this journey should remember to be patient with those that are. Don’t take it personally or get upset with your friend when she seems preoccupied. The saying “You would do anything for your child” is exactly what this mama is doing.
There is more aluminum in a piece of fresh fruit than there is in a dose of HPV vaccine. Aluminum is used in an extremely low dose to help the body form an immune response using a smaller amount of vaccine. So yes, HPV vaccine does contain aluminum -- but so does fruit, veggies, meat, and even breastmilk. 
There is a variety of pediatric services at your local Baylor Scott & White Emergency Hospital facility -- without your sick or hurt child waiting in a crowded ER or for a call back from the pediatrician. These facilities are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and boast an average wait time of less than 15 minutes (not even a full episode of Doc McStuffins).
At the Ronald McDonald House of Fort Worth, cancer accounts for about 25 percent of patients’ diagnoses. We support them in the best way possible because we believe that a family with a sick child needs help for the whole family, not just the sick child. 
The learning curve to a newly diagnosed allergy may feel steep, but I promise it gets easier and more intuitive with time. It requires retraining your thinking and figuring out tricks along the way.
Nothing was happening beyond showering and sunscreen, and I needed something to jump-start my desire to invest in myself. There was always something more urgent with three young kids than taking care of aesthetics, but I knew I could find 15 minutes once every three months.    
After two dreadful years of quarantines, isolation, sadness, anxiety, and death, we have seen an uptick in adolescents who have died by suicide, made suicide attempts, and outcries. The residual affects of the pandemic are here to stay. Checking on...

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