Category Archives: Fitness & Health
HealthBlog: To the Rescue First Aid for Teens
HealthFirst, the Health Training and Advice organisation founded by two British-trained GPs, is well known to Moms-in-Vaud. In fact, many of us have probably taken their First Aid or Child CPR Classes. And now our teens can take advantage of their expertise too! To the Rescue: First Aid Skills for Teenagers, a new two [...]
EventBlog: How to Reduce Stress
On Wednesday, 24 April 2013, from 19:30, professionals from Chronologica, Peak of Wellbeing and KV Life Management are joining forces to offer a free seminar on stress reduction. Each of the professionals will talk about either physical, practical or emotional ways to lower stress. The discussion will take place at Cafe des Arts on rue [...]
WDW: Dads 4 Doulas!
Parties where you don’t know anyone can be a pain. Conversation is usually strained and polite. Invariably it drags on into the topic of kids: what do your daughters do? My answer usually leads to this: “A doula?! What the heck is a doula?” Then I have to explain, usually in the simplest party terms. [...]
HealthBlog: Navigating Postpartum Depression and Anxiety as an expat
As most parents know, nothing can truly prepare you for what it will be like to bring a child into the world and be charged with raising that tiny, vulnerable creature into adulthood. After reading a dozen books, endlessly questioning my friends with children and buying more baby supplies than anyone could ever need, I [...]
Healthblog: Beware of the marching caterpillars
I knew nothing about these creatures before moving to Switzerland. The first I learnt about them was when a friend developed a skin rash because of them. Marching caterpillars are usually somewhere between 3 and 4 centimetres long and they’re covered with thousands and thousands of pointed hairs. There are two types: pine and oak. [...]