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Keep Those Tootsies Warm: Best Merino Socks For Your Newborn Baby
by The Natural Parent MagazineBy Hannah Schenker Socks are the ideal newborn baby foot cover, especially during the colder months, as baby’s foot is still able to grow…
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How You Can Conquer Mummy Brain With Proper Nutrition
By Zooey Strong New babies can be the harbingers of so much love, joy, and forgetfulness. Yep, the “mummy brain” struggle is real! Sometimes…
“Girls Can’t Jump In Muddy Puddles” – Unconscious Sexism At The Shoe Shop
By Sofie Thomson When my daughter turned just seven months she did something that completely took me by surprise. She walked. We hadn’t really…
Confessions of a Recovering Environmental Vandal
By Virginia Tapscott I have a confession. I only started a recycling last year. We used a diesel generator to power the house for…
Mama Is Right Here
By Katie Leach MAMA IS RIGHT HERE Little one, I know this is all new to you, and nothing like my cosy womb. Let’s…
How social media is fuelling anxiety and depression among parents, according to Priory expert
Does linking up with other mothers and fathers on Facebook and Instagram make us happier? The answer it would seem is not. A survey…
Happy Birthing Days: New Book Shares Amazing 3-Step Method
Pizza and Parcels Should be Delivered But Babies Should Be Born! In her bestselling book Happy Birthing Days: a midwife‘s secret to a joyful, safe…
Jaundice In Newborns Could Be An Evolutionary Safeguard Against Death From Sepsis
Richard Hansen, University of Glasgow; Elaina Collie-Duguid, University of Aberdeen, and Georgina Hold, UNSW In newborn babies, jaundice is so common as to be…
How to Get your Sleepyhead to Eat Breakfast
By Elizabeth Pantley Does your child wake up slowly with no appetite first thing in the morning? That’s a challenge worth solving because by…
Pregnancy, Exercise and Diet: How To Ensure a Healthy Pregnancy
By Laura Lucas It’s positive. You are pregnant! A completely new world of mixed emotions has suddenly opened up. Disbelief, contentment, acceptance, joy and…
For All The Mothers Who Feel Lost At Times, This Is How I Found ME
By Kim Newing When I became a mother for the first time almost 8 years ago, I had no clue what was ahead of…
Three Words That Changed How I Parent
By Joanna Goddard Six years ago, I heard some parenting advice, and it changed everything… “AIM FOR YES.” Funnily enough, I can’t remember who said…
More Amazing Findings in Breast Milk: New Immune Cells Discovered
By Hannah Schenker As if breast milk wasn’t already a miracle substance, researchers from Augusta University have found a new class of cell within mother’s…
I Had a Baby At 40, And It Was Awesome
By Jessica Delfino Let me start by saying I didn’t mean to have a baby at 40. I meant to have a baby, but…
Child Car Seat Recycling a Sign of Things to Come
Just a few years ago there weren’t many people who would think it was possible to recycle a child car seat, much less have…
An Opportunity to Learn: When Your Son’s School Adopts Rescue Chickens
By Sally Saint My son’s school has recently acquired some rescue chickens, which were straight from their cages having been the industry’s laying machines….
The Art of Sleeping Well (Even If Your Baby Doesn’t…)
By Georgina Dowden Sleep training is a hot topic. You might feel that in order to get a good night’s sleep, you need to…
Keep Those Tootsies Warm: Best Merino Socks For Your Newborn Baby
By Hannah Schenker Socks are the ideal newborn baby foot cover, especially during the colder months, as baby’s foot is still able to grow…
When You Lose it With Your Child: 5 Tips To Repair
By Dr Laura Markham “After hearing you speak, I decided never to yell at my kids again. I want to be a good role…
Nourishing Bub’s Winter Skin
By Michelle Vogrinec Winter is a beautiful season full of grey skies, rain, mud and puddles, white snow, pink cheeks and cold hands. But the…
Be Nice, You’ve Got to Share
By Pennie Brownlee How embarrassing Have you ever taken your baby to baby group and your baby has been very active, taking toys from…
Child Autonomy: A Good Rule of Thumb
By Asta Rudzinskaite Isn’t it funny how some things might seem so obvious to us, and yet it appears that someone else simply cannot get…
Why I Love Being An Adult Unschooler
By Chantel Quick There is no difference between living and learning…it is impossible and misleading and harmful to think of them as being separate….
10 Tips For Expectant Fathers From My Second Time Around
By Matt Paolelli As we are currently in the second trimester of our second pregnancy, I’ve found myself increasingly surrounded by other pregnant family members,…
5 Reasons Why You Need a Natural, Healthy and Low-Tox Home
By Lisa Coulburn We build beautiful new homes, then we paint them, we decorate them and furnish them with beautiful things. Then we clean…
Stuffed Baked Pumpkins
By Loveday Why It’s winter and we are rejoicing that we have a log burning stove and an oven. Four little homegrown pumpkins have…
How to Prevent Your Baby From Turning Into a Picky Eater
By Elizabeth Pantley, The No-Cry Picky Eater Solution Picky eating is a very common childhood trait. While it’s not possible to entirely change your…
Food – Glorious Food!
By Alex Koster Since I was a child I’ve had a great love for food. Not just a love for eating but a curiosity…
Photographer Heals Birth Trauma PTSD, Wants To Give Back
Kristy of KLW Photography is a Melbourne-based maternity and newborn photographer. Married, mum to three boys and passionate about her work, she is also healing…
Dream Catchers, Crystal Wands, Smudge Sticks and More: Unique Designs NZ
Meraki: Doing something with soul, creativity or love. When you put “something of yourself” into what you’re doing. I’m Monique, 29. I’m a mama…
“Mum…I’m Bored!” What Boredom Is Really About
By Nelle Myrica Donaldson “I’m bored!” My eyebrows lurch, “How can you possibly be bored? You have toys and art supplies…Or you could help…
Dear Attachment Parent: How Do I Wean?
By Nina Palmo Dear Attachment Parent: My baby is almost 18 months old. I never thought I’d be breastfeeding a toddler, but my child is…
Eight Reasons To Not Sleep Train Your Baby
By Sarah Ockwell-Smith Are you considering sleep training your baby because of all the recent media reports claiming it is safe? Here are eight…
Parenting Differently From Family and Friends
By Genevieve Simperingham The trials of being a peaceful parent pioneer. Do you sometimes feel challenged in your attempts to be a more peaceful…
Roots and Wings – Childhood needs a Revolution: A Handbook For Parents and Educators
Today we hear from the author of this wonderful book – Roots and Wings – Childhood Needs A Revolution: A Handbook for Parents and Educators…
Letting Go of Fear to Parent with Trust
By Megan Stonelake We all worry about our kids. We stress out about how they’re developing, if we harmed their psyches when we yelled…
Mindfulness and Water Freed My Fears: A Positive Birth Experience
By Sarah Silver Just over 12 months ago my husband and I were honoured to be able to purchase H2 Oh Baby, a nationally…
Sugars in Mother’s Milk Help Shape Baby’s Microbiome and Ward Off Infection
Steven Townsend, Vanderbilt University While living in a mother’s womb, cushioned by amniotic fluid and protected from the outside world, babies have only minimal…
Our Parenting Manifesto: A Public Declaration of Our Intentions, Attitudes and Views
By Asta Rudzinskaite The most amazing and the scariest thing – yes, equally and simultaneously – about becoming a parent is that you have the…
Stop Being So Hard On Yourself
By Alex Koster It is one of our main priorities in raising happy and resilient children: to help them gain a positive self-image, to…
Tips For Keeping Well Through Winter, Naturally
By Michele Wilson Winter is almost here in all its wet, windy glory. Things in our whanau have changed so much since this time…
Your Little Ecosprout: Must-Haves for a Non-Toxic Sleeping Environment
By Hannah Schenker These days we are all about healthy, clean and organic living. When you become pregnant, this can go next level as…
The Expectation Gap: When Do Toddlers Have Control Over their Behaviors?
By Mona Delahooke Toddlers are wildly and wonderfully unpredictable. One minute, your little girl might be happily conversing with you, and the next, she’s…
Preserving Memories, Emotions and Nostalgia Through Photography
Fran Jorgensen is a Melbourne-based Family Lifestyle Photographer and mother of two girls. She was born in Venezuela to Chilean parents but has called…
Parenting Is Around The Clock
By Jessica Drummond Parenting doesn’t stop at bedtime. When a child asks for things or voices a need, it is not something to grumble about,…
Fierce Self Care for Tired Mamas
By Nikki Veliz A friend sent me a text after we bumped into each other grocery shopping: “You look great! Just thought I needed…
Debunking The Perfect Parent Myth
By Genevieve Simperingham When we’re the least successful in being the parent that we want to be, that’s usually when we most need to…
The Value of the Grandparent Relationship
By Elizabeth Pantley If your baby is lucky enough to have a grandmother or grandfather (or several!) in her life, the benefits she’ll enjoy…
To The Warrior Mother
By Natalie Roberts-Mazzeo This one is for all the mothers out there raising a beautiful child with a diagnosis, disability or additional need. Whose motherhood…
The Fourth Trimester: A Huge Transition
The term the fourth trimester is used to describe the first three months after birth. It is a time of huge transition for a new…
Why Carrying Matters: Positive Effects of Carrying For Society
By Dr Rosie Knowles. This is the third part in the Carrying Matters series of articles. Read Part 1 and Part 2. The positive effects of…