Guest Post: Instinctive Parenting?
Is parenting instinctive? Though I argue elements are (and we fight to ignore them), here is another beautiful take on how not instinctive parenting can be.
Is parenting instinctive? Though I argue elements are (and we fight to ignore them), here is another beautiful take on how not instinctive parenting can be.
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 hurting everyone. It's not just financial, but practically and emotionally as well.
There has been no celebrity quite as outspoken or involved in the Attachment Parenting world as Mayim Bialik. And I consider myself incredibly lucky to have been able to have a chat with Mayim about parenting, the book, and much more.
This issue of Re:Birth has articles on the Midwifery Task Force in Ontario in the early 1980s, squatting in labour, episiotomies, rules at the time about fathers being present for c-sections, VBAC support, and birth on TV.