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The Lasting Trauma of Mothers Separated from Their Nursing Children I can’t imagine—or, rather, it hurts my heart to think about—how my five-month-old son would feel in the arms of a stranger, hungry, abandoned, alone.

Scientists claim lying down with your kids until they fall asleep is GOOD for them and can reduce mental health problems later in life IT’S bedtime in the family home and the only way your child will be soothed to sleep is if you’ll snuggle up beside them as they fall asleep. But should you encourage your child to self-soothe and …

Postpartum Nutrition with Daniela Kende Let me tell you, Daniela is such a wealth of knowledge and made me feel ready to make some easy foods to stick in the freezer. Learn about all thing postpartum nutrition in the video above. Other foods I am going to make are ground turkey meatballs, bone broth and egg bites. Make sure to check Danie

A chart for parents.....

Babies are not trying to manipulate. They cry because they need help with something. This visual is from Sarah Ockwell-Smith.

Here's another one!

New Study: The More you Hug your Kids, the More Their Brains Develop To borrow a phrase: love works in mysterious ways. We are born to love and, as it turns out, love

What if....

What if we saw children sleeping on us as a positive? What if we viewed the babies who refuse to go down to nap as a sign that we need to slow down?

What if we changed our perceptions on contact naps, and instead viewed them as an opportunity to relax?

Baby has just fallen asleep on me. I spend a few minutes browsing Facebook and then, my mind wonders towards the dishes piling up in the sink. The pile of laundry stacked up in the bathroom. The dust that has settled on the tv. I start to feel guilty. I start thinking about work that could be done. Or food that needs to be cooked. I try to put baby down, but no way. Baby is having NONE of it.

But what if, just say, WHAT IF this is how it is SUPPOSED to be? Alright yes, we know that evolutionary babies are designed to want to be close to their mothers, but what if that is also meant to work out for the mother to rest too. It’s meant to be for OUR benefit.
To sit back for just a moment, and forget about everything else going on in life.
To take in the beauty of our children, and REST.

Rest our minds.
And rest our bodies.

Childbirth has put our bodies under some serious stress. And there are always a million things that need to be done before the day is over. Perhaps our babies and children needing us to be still with them is natures way of telling us to slow down for just a moment.

Rest mama.
Take the opportunity ❤️