A beautiful gift for a newly born mother and baby
‘Mother-Baby Dyad’ is written by Amanda Stinton and available at www.ourfourthtrimester.com About the Book “I have never come across a book quite like this. It is…
Parenting
Why Don’t We Remember Being Babies?
By Sarah R. Moore Why don’t we remember being babies and what does the research really say about baby memory? This is an excerpt…
Supportive, Empowering Antenatal Education & Doula Services
Childbirth should be the most empowering, rewarding and exciting experience in a woman’s life, but it can be confusing to know where to go…
Remote Learning: Why Your Child Gives You Such a Hard Time
By Dr. Laura Markham Is your child enrolled in school, but doing remote learning, either full or part time? If so, you may be…
“Stop Pushing Me!” – Why connection, not pushing, is the key to healthy independence
By Jessie Stern, Ph.D. and Rachel Samson, M.Psych Imagine you are standing at the edge of a diving board, water dancing a vertiginous distance below….
6 Strategies to Bring Calm to Parenting with your Partner Right Now
By Valerie Groysman Parenting, even in the best times, is a challenge. Today’s already sleep deprived parents have been thrown in for another loop,…
Homeschooling an Only Child
By Jessica Rios Being a one-child family is rich with depth and adoration for your one precious child. Life this way is often quieter…
Parenting Right the First Year
By Sarah R. Moore This is an excerpt from an interview between Sarah R. Moore of Dandelion Seeds Positive Parenting and Tina Payne Bryson,…
Four Ways to Transform Mother’s Guilt
By Geordie Bull When I first became a mother, guilt was almost a religion for me. I thought that if I beat myself up…
Online Personalised Counselling to Help Parents Build Loving Families
As an integrative counsellor with a grounding in Carl Rogers’ person-centred therapy and other evidence-based approaches, Rebecca Rylands has been inspired by the recent…
Why ‘Yes Spaces’ Are Important While Working From Home
By Emily Folk Working from home with kids isn’t always easy. In fact, it can be pretty complicated most of the time. Navigating busy…
Ending Mum Shaming
By Dr. Dawn Kingston More often than not we don’t know the full story behind why a mum is choosing to do what she…
The Importance of Birth Education & Postpartum Support
Offering birth education, hypnobirthing classes and postpartum doula support, Danika Armstrong’s goal is to help women to birth safely and comfortably and enjoy and…
The More than One Club
By Gretchen Good Leo and Tiffany work hard. Despite living with Down syndrome, vision impairment, hearing impairment, some orthopaedic issues and speech challenges, their…
Your Baby’s Sleep Is Normal, It’s Our Expectations That Are Broken
By Elli Pears & Sarah Hemstock When speaking to parents about their children’s sleep, we have found that they spend a lot of time…
Mamas Empowering Mamas Through Nutrition And Movement
The Balanced Mama Project is a supportive community of women, brought together by mums Emily Parks and Katie Swift. Using their combined Nutrition, Pilates…
Mamas, R U OK?
By Belinda Haan How is your motherhood journey going? For me, it has been a mixture of highs and lows, sometimes minutes apart. We…
Life in lockdown from across the ditch
By Emily Brittingham As a mother of three young children living in Melbourne, Australia, life right now is pretty tough. Our new normal consists…
How to be a Better Mum: 3 Big Reasons It’s Hard and What to Do About It
By Sarah R. Moore Parenting experts tell us how to be a better mum, but few tell us why it’s so darn hard to…
Lovingly supporting you through pregnancy, birth and parenthood
Passionate about supporting women and their families through their pregnancy, birthing and postpartum journeys, at Bumps, Birth and Beyond, Fiona O’Shaughnessy shares her experience, knowledge and resources to…