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The Importance of Partner Support

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 [...]

Parenting, Work, and the Spoiled Baby

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. [...]

Re:Birth Volume 2

Re:Birth Volume 2

In this second issue of Re:Birth, there are articles on the Ultrasound (which was quite new at the time), mothering the mother, VBACs (yes, they were talking about them 20 years ago) and C-sections, support during [...]

Co-Sleeping: Making Travel Easier

Co-Sleeping: Making Travel Easier

Before I had my own daughter, I remember hearing friends with kids complain about how their babies reacted to traveling – they were extra fussy, especially at night-time. This isn’t surprising at all, as many [...]

Lucky

Lucky

By Tracy G. Cassels One of the things I hate most is when others use the term ‘lucky’ with reference to one’s kids.  It’s something I hear a lot of because I have a ‘good’ child, [...]

Taking the Newborn out of Newborn Toys

Taking the Newborn out of Newborn Toys

It used to be that baby toys were things like rattles and blocks that they could actually use to have fun with. Of course, this meant that babies really didn’t have toys at first because [...]

Introduction

Introduction

By Tracy G. Cassels Parenting. You hear people say that it’s the most important thing you can do with your life, that nothing else compares with the highs and the lows associated with it.  It is [...]