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When I was pregnant I never even considered that I may not be able to breastfeed. When my first daughter was born the labour and birth were quite traumatic and resulted in an emergency c section. After a very quick look and cuddle, she was taken to the special care...
Attachment parenting tends to be one of those terms that parents either cringe at or they show a strong interest in learning more about. For myself and my husband we kind of just ‘fell’ into an attachment parenting kind of life. Don’t get me wrong, we had always...
Parenting your baby during the night is not about a set of rules and sleep strategies. Parenting your baby at night time is all about connection. As a new parent I was shocked to find myself feeding my new baby literally around the clock. Eight weeks into being a...
Expectations. We all have them. Do your expectations as an adult meet up with your expectations that YOU have for your baby? Your child? Expectations as an adult tend to go a little like this… To be loved. To be respected. To be acknowledged and also nurtured. Why...
Our littlest love has been unwell on and off for the past couple of weeks. Trying, exhausting, relentless nights. Breastfeeding like a newborn baby. Up and down all night, soothing and cuddling, feeding and loving. No matter the age of your baby they NEED you. They...
Discipline - one word that makes most gentle parents cringe. Discipline is not a dirty word. In fact the very definition of discipline in the old English language referred to a branch of knowledge and in Latin "Disciplina" means to teach. 'Children need confident...
Motherhood- A 'hood' that many of us may see as a spiritual journey. One that challenges us & reminds us of our daily practice… practice that can be rigorous & at times exhausting. Our infants and our children are our teachers repeatedly forcing us to live...
Human infants are the mist dependent of all creatures and for the longest amount of time. We would not have survived as a species if cave mothers had out their offspring in another part of the cave at night or left them for long periods of time during the day. WE may...
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