After reading an article recently about the increase in illness in American children due to modern medical practices such as overuse of vaccinations and antibiotics, it confirms what I see in my own children. While so many families around us struggled so much with illness this winter, my kids remained pretty healthy. Especially Sophia who, when she got a cold a couple weeks ago, I calculated that it was the 5th time she's been sick in over 5 1/2 years of life, and all of those sicknesses have been minor; no more than a couple of day incidents.

She was so funny when she was sick this time. She'd been feeling badly for maybe 3 hours and she looks plaintively at me and says, “Mommy, am I ever going to feel better?” I chuckled – she has no idea what so many other kids/ppl go through. To her 3 hours of feeling sick is a lifetime! Thanks for helping me give my kids this marvelous health! It is indeed amazing.