Family Story

I’ve been helping a mama whose nutritionist had (unknowingly) put her on a “high-Lead” diet, which poisoned both her & her breast-fed baby.

March 26, 2023May 29, 2024

For those new to the Lead Safe Mama website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Tamara owns and runs Lead…

Another family story shared in response to this week’s article on Mayim Bialik’s Grok Nation.

October 23, 2018

Mama Kim B. shared the following today in post (with a link to the Grok Nation article): DID YOU KNOW: This week is Lead Poisoning Awareness Week! If you have, work with, or are planning to have children, please take a moment to read this important information! Before Simon was born, I spend HOURS researching…

Check out Mayim Bailik’s GrokNation.com today for an article I wrote about childhood lead poisoning.

October 22, 2018October 23, 2018

I am excited to share that the article I wrote for Mayim Bialik’s GrokNation.com was published today (10/22/2018) for National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. I shared the article on Facebook earlier today and my friend Christina re-shared it with the following comment that I wanted to also share with all of you: As I read…

Mother’s Day 2017, Note From Avi – Age 12-1/2

May 14, 2017May 15, 2022

5/13/2017 This is Avi’s “Mother’s Day” note for me today! He wrote it in his yoga class yesterday morning! For those of you without a very young child [or a brain-injured 12-year-old] in your life, an English “translation” follows. I share this with you for 1,000,001 reasons, but mostly to show you where he is with writing,…