Health Professionals and Sleep Training
Too often health professionals promote sleep training without it being based on their expertise, but rather their personal beliefs. This leaves parents struggling.
Too often health professionals promote sleep training without it being based on their expertise, but rather their personal beliefs. This leaves parents struggling.
There is a myth out there that most people who support breastfeeding are bad, bad people out to shame you. Here I examine this in a bit more detail with women's stories and experiences as a backdrop.
The primary argument in favour of unassisted birth is that we humans are also animals who instinctually know what to do to give birth and need no assistance from others in doing so. But for some, the thought of a woman birthing herself, without any help or back-up, is flat-out dangerous or irresponsible.
The problem is that the c-section has been seen as an equal alternative (or sometimes even better alternative) to vaginal birth for people with no medical reason to have a c-section. But there are repercussions to this for both the mother and child and it’s my hope to explore those herein.