Re: me, my baby, a website

Website: thank you for checking into it, you are the research guru and I could not duplicate what you do for lack of time.

My thyroid: all I had checked was TSH & T4 on me, which is all that my son has ever had tested. mine were in normal range. from what I gather, people have plenty of hyper or hypothyroid signs with those values in normal range, so I'm not sure how much stock to put in that. I don't have any other signs of noticeable thyroid issues, though. I've never been diagnosed with any thyroid disorders.

Some people's concerns being blown off: that is my ill-thought out statement that I simply can't back up. I vaguely remember people coming to one of the Support Forums and saying [my own interpretation and paraphrasing, ha] stuff like "but I think inorganic Iodine is the devil !!!!! and nobody should be on it because it did X bad thing to me!!! and I don't know what happened to those posts. maybe they were moved to the debate forum, or were deleted not because they disagreed with Lugol's supplementation, but because they were extrapolating their poor results to "bad idea for everyone," which doesn't seem true. Then, I got the idea that people were saying "if you came to this forum, your opinion had better be that Lugol's and other non-seaweed sources of Iodine are OK, or you'd better not talk about it," whether that was an accurate assessment of the situation or not. I have been a poor follower of this issue for quite some time.

My baby, my husband, our dog, chickens, etc. disappeared into some black hole of family closeness, organizing the house, barely keeping it clean, making lots of bone broth and such. And then I tried to get out there and find mom groups, being new to the area. This has worked with varying degrees of success (meaning I meet someone or go to some group one week but then don't get out again for at least a couple of weeks - feeling like I lose social momentum).

I love Oregon and am thoroughly glad we moved here. I have loved the winter, which is mild. We're in the Willamette Valley, but we're in a little place that gets some better weather (days with some sunshine in the winter when surrounding areas are still cloudy, and a little less rain than nearby places). We're so excited to get our little farm going and provide quality meat to people in the area. First comes fence, which is happening through a partnership with a nearby farm that will put cattle on our property for a couple of months out of the year to graze. We're going to have a big garden this year - nothing happened last year. The climate is mild enough that we can grow something year round. Thank you for asking.

Oh - and baby is eating the good stuff, including raw cow cream from a nearby farm. Sometimes, I can't believe how awesomely we eat compared to the standard american diet! He's buff, so strong, and so interested in everything. Crawling, standing, not quite walking.