Guest Post: Dear Mama
What would our babies say if they could speak? Would we ever put them down if we knew?
The Sleep-Needs Connection: Let’s Not Throw Parents Under the Bus Please
A new "gentle" approach to sleep suggests that if parents meet all their child's needs, sleep will follow. However, I disagree and believe this type of approach can actually harm families. Here's why.
Shifting Priorities: Why Sleep Isn’t the Most Important Thing for Your Child
"What is most important for your child's development?" If you answered sleep, I think we need to talk.
Birth Story: Emalitza and Ziggy Jay
One woman's wonderful transition to motherhood.
Guest Post: Nursing My Child Through Cancer
And this is where the biggest victory of our breastfeeding journey lies. I am literally carrying his immune system for him. As his doctors point out, breastmilk is the best broad range antiviral medication there is. My body makes antibodies his cannot make right now, and every time he breastfeeds, he receives a fresh load of them. Maybe I've saved him a hospital stay with these antibodies. Maybe, I'll never know, maybe there's a chance I've even saved his life.
How Having A New Baby Has Made Me So Very Angry
Having my baby boy has led to an exponential growth in love in our family, but it has also made me very angry. Not at him or anyone close to us, but at our society that continues to devalue family and children.
Deserving Love
I had a choice in a moment: To focus on the "misbehaviour" or focus instead on making sure my daughter understood one critical thing. I chose that critical thing - knowing that she is always loved by us.
Two Years Later
Some musings on the lesson that I have been forced to learn in the last two years. Pain in this world can be overwhelming and we can feel helpless in the face of it, but we are never truly helpless.
Was It Always So Easy?
For those who struggle to be gentle and help their young children through emotionally trying times, but don't seem to be seeing the results, I just have this to say: It's not easy, but it is completely worth it.
When I’m Not So Fun to Be Around
After having a crappy day myself and shutting myself in the bedroom because I was ready to scream at everyone and throw whatever I could find out the window, I had to write this. So… how many of these can you relate to?