: ' baby'
Five Reasons to Wear Your Baby
Though some might argue that there’s no difference, or that our modern inventions are more convenient, I would like to argue that there are actually good reasons to wear your baby. So here I [...]
The Importance of Partner Support
Our society has changed and we are now expected to parent alone. And yet that is not how we evolved to parent and the lack of support that families, and in particular, moms have is [...]
Do C-Sections Impair Maternal Responsiveness?
. Herein I’d like to talk about a piece from 2008 that looked at elective c-sections and later maternal responsiveness. Not because I want to cause a stink for those who had a c-section, [...]
Birth Story – Sam in NZ
A beautiful home birth story from Sam in New Zealand! [...]
Parenting, Work, and the Spoiled Baby
Recently I was lead to a piece written by Katha Pollitt who claims that Attachment Parenting is bad not only for women, but for children too. Her evidence? Well, none. [...]
Guest Post: Does It Really Matter? (A Poem)
Trisha Lawrie has kindly shared three incredibly powerful poems regarding birth and I am thrilled to share them. I feel they speak to so much that we speak of on EP and give voice to [...]
The “Difficult” Baby: Part Two
In this part, we’re going to look at the last piece of pertinent information—viewing the difficult infant as a ‘plastic’ infant—and then finishing with a look at what we can do going forward. [...]
The “Difficult” Baby: Part One
You’ve probably heard it a hundred times. Parents talking about their child and why parenting was so hard: He was just such a difficult baby. It’s supposed to explain the frazzled looks, the endless [...]
Baby Expectations: Part 1 of 2
From the reasonable expectation that they will walk (someday) to the more perplexing expectation that your infant should sleep through the night (and the thousands in between), it seems as if we’re putting a lot on [...]
Theseus’ Parenting
Every aspect of parenting can be broken down into individual components and studied to try and determine what part of it makes it work (or not work). It’s what science tries to do on a [...]
Five Reasons to Wear Your Baby
Personal anecdotes are no good as anecdote does not equal data. Howev
Five Reasons to Wear Your Baby
I'm a big fan of babywearing and wear both of mine, but statements lik
Press Release Re: Carpenter et al. Bedsharing Study
No it wasn't the Japan study, it is this one. It uses several Western
I’m Sorry, We Failed: A Follow Up
Thank you so much! I always appreciate when people understand what I'
I’m Sorry, We Failed: A Follow Up
Tracey, Your commen : "That we are systematically trying to ignore an