newborn Archives - Barbara Buckner Suárez

The Calm Before the Storm

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 31Days, reality

Maybe you came home from the hospital or birthing center just a couple of days into this new parenting gig and thought to yourselves, “We’ve got this! There’s food in the fridge, the house is calm and peaceful, our gorgeous baby is sleeping quietly in the bassinet....

Wake Up Call

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | newborn

Sometimes the birth of a baby is our personal wake up call. I’m not just talking about being awakened from sweet slumber several times a night, I’m talking about how bringing a little person into this world wakes us up in lots of other ways, too. I just came from...

That First Look

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | newborn

There’s a moment after your baby enters this world where you’re both still connected to one another even as the separation has begun. Your baby, this little person who has spent the last nine months inside of you growing from the smallest no-see-em cells...

1,000 Minutes – The Golden Hours

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | attachment, skin-to-skin

This morning I woke up at 4:30 am and drove 300 miles North on I-5 for a conference at Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland, Washington to hear Dr. Nils Bergman speak about “Improving Neonatal Outcomes Through Neuroscience.” After I write this post and eat a little dinner,...