A Response to Gina Ford’s “Golden Rules”
The Daily Mail summarized Gina Ford's 8 Golden Rules in one of their pieces. I'd like to discuss them all one by one in hopes of showing how these rules need to be amended.
The Daily Mail summarized Gina Ford's 8 Golden Rules in one of their pieces. I'd like to discuss them all one by one in hopes of showing how these rules need to be amended.
USA Today published a piece this weekend condemning bedsharing, but did they really look at the whole picture? Once again, are we fear-mongering instead of offering real education?
The myth (yes myth!) is that bedsharing is inherently dangerous. But what if we looked at every single bedsharing death? What would we find then?
Used to being told you're creating "bad habits" by doing things like nurse your child to sleep or respond to their cries? If so, this post is for you - I won't tell you to change these behaviours, but rather to look at them as they are: biologically normal.
Are you often told that your child doesn't "need" things like being held, breastfeeding, or co-sleeping? Do you find the implication to be that we are somehow harming our children? What if we looked at it differently?
Some claim that to choose a homebirth is "narcissistic". But what if we compare the risk of homebirth (only in the US, no less) with other common, modern-day practices, I think people need to reevaluate their stance or be ready to call out a lot more people!
Many Australians woke this morning to scare mongering about bedsharing thanks to articles in their papers. Notably, claims that 25 babies died in the parent bed last year are leading to people declaring bedsharing should be illegal and even some people are being investigated for it (I kid you not).
What do you do if you want to bedshare but your partner doesn't? Some advice on how to approach the issue so that everyone feels like they at least have had a chance to be heard.
Alright, I caved. At first I wanted nothing to do with the recent article on co-sleeping killing babies, but let’s take it apart, shall we?
Art can be transformative in society – we have known this for a long time – it’s just the matter of which art we choose to share. In this vein, I choose to share Gioia Albano and her depictions of motherhood as beautiful, loving, and natural.