You’re Doing a Good Job: Child Therapist Reassures Constance Hall
By Hannah Schenker Love her or hate her (but seriously, we love her), Constance Hall has the guts to say it like it is….
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New PicsArt App Lets You Get Creative With the Baby in Your Belly
By Hannah Schenker Did you make one of those gorgeous #TreeOfLife breastfeeding selfie pictures that were super popular on Instagram a few months ago, using…
Parenting in the Modern Era
By Barbara Greene Parenting is a massive job. In current Western socio-economic conditions it has become easy to take parenting struggles as personal failure….
You’re Going to Miss It
By Michelle Zunter One day you’re going to miss it. One day there will be a peaceful silence while you go to the bathroom…
Dad’s Tearful Elation at Surprise Pregnancy Announcement
By Hannah Schenker Are you a sucker for a good pregnancy announcement like we are? Having fairly decent cameras in our pockets means more…
Swollen Ankles: Flying While Pregnant
If you have a normal pregnancy flying is pretty safe these days but why do ankles swell up especially when you are on a…
Natural Living: Family Live in Cob House in the Arctic Circle
By Hannah Schenker Do you sometimes fall down the ‘natural living’ rabbit hole on the internet, looking at yurts and cob buildings and earthships and the…
Tender Photos Capture Mother’s Last Breastfeed Before Cancer Treatment
By Hannah Schenker These tender and emotional photographs capture Ashley Kostiuk’s last breastfeed before starting aggressive chemotherapy for breast cancer. Kostiuk discovered a lump in…
The Magic of the Father-Daughter Connection
By Hannah Schenker Ukranian illustrator Snezhana Soosh focuses on the magic of the father-daughter relationship in her sweet and tender drawings. The exaggerated size of…
Red Shirting: Giving the Gift of Time
By Melanie Forstall Lemoine Note: In the United States, red shirting is a term used to describe allowing a student/child an extra year before…
Co-Feeding: Same-Sex Couple Both Breastfeed Baby
By Hannah Schenker A same-sex couple shared photographs of themselves both breastfeeding their four-week-old daughter to raise awareness of LGBTQI+ families. Claire Eden-McIlroy and…
Is There Anything it Can’t Do? Breast Milk Compound Kills Cancer Cells
By Hannah Schenker We mothers know about the wonders of breastmilk. We even joke about its wondrous and varied healing effects – “just pour…
My Answer Will Always Be Yes.
By Melanie Forstall Lemoine I quit sleep training before I even started and that’s OK. I’m sure, not unlike many new mothers, I was totally…
“Mother of two. Fire survivor. Warrior. Breastfeeder.”
By Hannah Schenker Photographer Ivette Ivens, whose work you may have already seen on our website with her project Breastfeeding Goddesses, has once again captured the…
Four Easy Steps to Raising Earth-Conscious Kids
By KateSurfs The environmental impact of raising a child in a western country is like 10 times greater than raising a child in a…
Your Birth Stories: Romy and Opal
Birth story by Romy McGahan Daniel. Photography by Jenna Nord – First Embrace Photography Opal is my fourth baby girl, and my fourth home birth….
Dental Association encouraged by ‘water only’ school results
Recent research showing positive results from a South Auckland school’s ‘water only’ policy is encouraging says The New Zealand Dental Association (NZDA). Decile 1…
Nobody Ever Fails At Breastfeeding And This Is Why
By Vanessa Christie Do we really need to keep talking about breastfeeding? It is understandably a subject fraught with emotion and there are plenty…
UNF*CK YOUR PERIOD: 5 REASONS TO FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR MENSTRUATION
By Chantal Quick Right now in society, there is a lot of awareness being raised around women’s rights and how our culture largely operates…
Have You Got a “Mom Crush”?
By Hannah Schenker Do you get the blues, mama? Scrolling through Facebook/Instagram/Pinterest, and seeing all these other mothers being so perfect and amazing and…