by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 4th trimester, changes, Childbirth Education, expectation, newborn, parenting, ready, reality, teaching, transformation, vulnerability
There’s an article that I just read from the BBC about a project called “One Day Young” from London photographer, Jenny Lewis, who for the past seven years has been capturing a stolen moment in time in the lives of new mother/baby pairs within 24 hours of birth....
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 31Days, coping, newborn, sleep
I just spent the last several hours talking to four different groups of expectant parents about how important it was after the birth of their baby that they crash out when their baby does following birth. This may sound like a no-brainer, but it’s really, really vital...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 31Days, 4th trimester, breastfeeding, engorgement, newborn, oversupply
I used to look forward to the silence that would surround us at 2 am when my baby would wake to eat – again. The whole world was asleep and we were the only two beings on earth locking our eyes on one another in that moonlit room. This was not always the case,...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 31Days, 4th trimester, newborn, parenting
If you could put a value on parenting your newborn baby, a dollar amount, for all your hard work, what would that value be? The reason parents are not paid for all of the work that they do for their children is because there isn’t a government agency or corporation...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 31Days, newborn, parenting
We can all feel super “green” when it comes to parenting – and I’m not talking about being environmentally conscious. Parenting seems so new and foreign. It doesn’t really matter how many books you’ve read or how many classes you’ve taken in preparation for...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 31Days, 4th trimester, development, newborn
One of the things that can be really frustrating for new parents is the lack of positive feedback from their newborns. They are needy little creatures at first and many new parents are hoping for babies who might not be laughing straight out of the womb, but will at...
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