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The Midwives Of New Jersey

The Midwives Of New Jersey

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Chlorella for Preconception, Pregnancy & Breast Cancer

Oct 25, 2016 (Updated: Apr 7, 2025) by Midwives Of New Jersey

What is Chlorella? The Midwives of New Jersey currently recommend Chlorella vulgaris for several different purposes. Chlorella is a single-celled freshwater microalga loaded with large quantities of bioavailable vitamins and minerals, including folate, vitamin B-12, iron, potassium, selenium, magnesium, zinc, and calcium. The health benefits of chlorella include natural detoxification, digestive health, immune function, inflammation …

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What You Need to Know About Dense Breast Tissue & Breast Cancer

Oct 22, 2015 (Updated: Mar 3, 2025) by Midwives Of New Jersey

The density of breast tissue is now being recognized as a risk factor for developing breast cancer. Women with dense, and especially those with very dense, breast tissue have an increased risk of developing cancer of the breast. The more disturbing fact is that breast cancer is much more difficult to detect with routine mammogram …

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Breast Cancer Hits Home – Our Lives, Our Births

Oct 12, 2015 (Updated: Feb 6, 2017) by Lisa Lederer

Episode 4 of Our lives, Our Births focuses on breast cancer. Specifically how breast cancer has impacted the lives of our clients and our own midwife Cindy Redmond.   We are so happy to have celebrated Cindy’s 5 years cancer free this month, coincidentally Breast Cancer Awareness month. We are so grateful to our client Beth …

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Breast Cancer Prevention Beyond the Mammogram

Feb 4, 2015 (Updated: Mar 3, 2025) by Midwives Of New Jersey

This article underscores the importance of not relying on just one modality to protect us from cancer.  Although mammography has been a powerful tool in the fight to detect breast cancer early, it is not the only tool we have and combining a variety of diagnostic and preventative tools is truly the best way to …

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Birth Control and Breast Cancer

Oct 8, 2014 (Updated: Mar 3, 2025) by Midwives Of New Jersey

HRT and the Pill – Known Breast Cancer Causing Agents I was a Midwife for more than 10 years before I realized that the government KNOWS that the birth control pill and hormone replacement therapy increases risk for breast cancer.  In just perusing a midwifery blog, I came across the National Institute of Health’s list …

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