Joette Calabrese Podcast

In this podcast, we cover: 0:36 Joette on pediatricians: “Yikes!” 2:17 How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor 7:54 Examples of drugs that are dangerous to us 12:04 Trust in your ability to mother 18:07 “I’ve had enough!” 22:12 Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa believed in the powers of homeopathy 25:26 Be a defiant mother  Today’s podcast is a bit more personal than previous ones. I offer no apologies. I am a defiant mother. While raising my children, my thinking went something like this: If I was going to bring children into the world, I ought to be able to identify whether they were well or not. In fact, not unlike any of you mothers reading this now, I checked my baby (who was generally in my arms anyway) pretty much by the minute so I felt pretty capable of conducting my own well baby check-ups. I also read unceasingly. Additionally, I put a lot of time into homemade, organic, pasture fed foods, so it seemed stupid (excuse the sophomoric word, but it’s so fitting!) to forget all that