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Articles and posts on all things pregnancy, birth and parenting.
Topics include: pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, formula feeding, co-sleeping, any kind of sleep, newborn babies, newborn mothers, 4th trimester care, tongue-tie, silent reflux, attachment parenting, mothers mental health, PTSD, PND, birth trauma etc.
My thought as I put the book down was that it was so necessary to have all these words dedicated to the mother. And that if I had replaced my 3am panic forum scrolling with this book, I might have avoided a little bit of down time.
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My mum sent me Raising Boys after we spoke about the challenges of childcare. Looks like it might help us on this mission to raise a strong, gentle, happy, healthy, kind, feminist man. Also, it'll be nice to have someone to blame when we cock it up.
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Oh my god. I am so tired. I don't believe in demon possessions...but what the F is going on.
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Kicki Hansard is kicking doula-business arse.
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Starting us off is Rebecca Schiller's, Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan. I met Rebecca (CEO of Birthrights charity, and experienced doula) at the Doula UK Conference a few months ago, joining a workshop on traumatic birth.
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I'm writing this on the train on the way to London for the introduction to being a doula day, led by Ali Edwards.
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I wanted to write about how we got our breastfed baby to take a bottle and how I feel about that. Maybe you are struggling to get your baby to take a bottle, looking for a rest from breastfeeding once in a while, having a tough time pumping much milk.
There has been a bit of pressure on me to make sure that my baby takes a bottle.
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The word is spreading and the value of a doula is seen and felt by many more each year, but we have a lot more work to do before a woman's (and her partner's and baby's) right to a birth without trauma is protected as it should be.
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There is something wonderful happening... somewhere near you people (primarily women) are changing the culture of birth. Actually, by the fact that they are doing it, it is changed (yes...there are some caveats here...but let's go with it for a second).
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In pregnancy I became a champion napper, won gold for my county. I could have a morning nap, have lunch and then just lie down for a little afternoon nap to set me up to make it through for a 7pm bedtime. NOT KIDDING. But it was in preparation for something I feared parental sleep deprivation...
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I want to talk about feeding babies. More specifically about how mothers want to feed their babies. How they want to feed them but don't.
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It feels eminently sensible to make sure that I have a profitable company before breaking away from a regular pay check. I have two reservations about that. Scrap that, three reservations;
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