Why We Don’t Think About Childbirth Until We Experience It Ourselves Until you personally go through childbirth, you rarely show interest in someone else’s experience. The arrival of a new person in the family is perceived as something natural, without visible external changes. It seems like the new parents remain the same as before. But…
I certainly understand the need for answers. The first child is like a sip of a heady drink, half mixed with happiness and fear, and drenched with a bucket of changes no one warned about. — John Medina, Brain Rules for Baby The first experience of parenthood is both joy and challenge. John Medina’s Brain…
Before going for a walk, my pockets are always filled with the essentials: a cable, a pack of wipes, something more substantial for sharp teeth, an eco-bag, a water bottle, and so on. With skillful arrangement of items, we can handle any life situation with minimal damage to eardrums. Often, the little one simply wants…
“Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.” Benjamin Franklin That a child needs a happy mother is a fact, how difficult it can be – both you and I…
I fell in love. I never liked this feeling: butterflies in the stomach and narcotic euphoria. Not that I’m a cold-minded person, but I like to stay in control, and when something takes over me – I don’t. I love when I’m drawn in (or rather uplifted) intellectually, when rose petals fall onto my brain…
After giving birth, a woman’s body often undergoes many changes. One of the common ones is the separation of the abdominal muscles – diastasis recti. They often go back on their own, but they often need additional help. In any case, gentle strengthening of the body after childbirth will never hurt. Diastasis and types of…
We hear about contraception all the time, invasive unnatural contraception that may have really unpleasant outcomes, while knowing literally nothing about our bodies. I don’t know a tool for any area in life better that observation. By observing our feelings, moods, body reactions, tracking it all, we may come to understand ourselves way better, especially…
What if diapers are more of an evil — something someone, as always, profits from? A child gets used to relieving themselves into a diaper, and then we end up having to break their psyche to teach them to use the potty. What if we could instead learn to recognize our baby’s signals about needing…
This piece explores the controversial topic of pacifier use (or “dummy,” as it’s colloquially called) in early childhood. We Don’t Use Pascifier – You dropped your pacifier. YOU DROPPED YOUR PACIFIER! – I turn around to the male voice and realize he’s talking to me.– We don’t use a pacifier, I reply.– What a fool,…
