Posts tagged attachment parenting
Should Infant Adversity Be Used As A Parenting Tool?

We are starting to understand that resilient children can indeed balance their negative experiences against their protective factors, and come out the other end ok. This doesn’t mean we should expose children to trauma, however, even when we know we can love and support them through it. We still attempt to protect our children from experiences that introduce hardship and that work against the basic building blocks to infant mental health.

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Carrying our Babies Towards Easier Parenting

As I have journeyed through mothering three children, attending many births as a doula, supporting families as a gentle parenting coach, and eventually becoming a busy IBCLC, I have realized that one single skill has made its way into each of my personal and professional toolkits. Babywearing.

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