I decided to share some insights about everyday culture in the broadly defined “Arabia” — the wider Arab world. Specifically, about the female body after childbirth, motherhood, and care during the first days of a baby’s life. There is much to learn, to be surprised by — and most importantly, to rethink. Recognition of Labor:…
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…
“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…
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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…
