All good parents share a purpose: to protect their precious gift and raise vibrant, healthy, and happy children. Parents are their children’s best advocates, and they must be able to make health decisions with confidence. Unfortunately, we live in a toxic world, and our children are getting sicker and sicker. Currently, more than half of them live with chronic conditions that negatively affect their quality of life—a fact strongly linked to a medical paradigm that emphasizes high-tech and pharmaceutical interventions over healthier options. If we are to turn this situation around—and make our children healthy again—parents clearly need a better way.

A Parent’s Guide offers that better way, empowering new and expectant parents with gentle, natural and holistic ways to promote their children’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being—from preconception through early childhood. Readers will learn how to deal effectively with pregnancy discomfort, make evidence-based birth choices that do not induce trauma, choose health-promoting foods and supplements that provide optimal nutrition for their child’s development, and eliminate or minimize hidden toxic exposures. Other topics vitally important for keeping kids’ development on track include the importance of infant reflexes, how to promote and maintain the diversity of a child’s microbiome, and how to spot “red flags”—early signs of immune or neurological dysfunction.

Perhaps most importantly, this guide will help parents confidently navigate common childhood illnesses. That confidence means they will not be at the mercy of medical practitioners more concerned with “standard of care” than the health of the children in their care.