The mother of a four-year-old recently commented on how much her daughter loved hearing stories about “when Mommy was Four.” So much does this little girl love those stories that the mother has started making them up. She just can’t remember enough real material from such a long time ago! It made me think about …
Spring. So delicious! Such lovely smells and pretty flowers and warm breezes. The cherry blossoms down Moss Street, the camas in Beacon Hill Park. Going for my early morning walk in the daylight! Great pleasures. But then I get caught in a downpour, or shiver because I didn’t take a jacket. The wind blows so …
#1 – A doula will prevent my baby’s other parent from feeling fully involved with our baby’s birth A doula works with the whole family. When the partner is looking tentative, the doula can say something like “Why don’t you stand here and hold her through the contraction while I rub her back?” Right away, …
The best evidence there is that we should talk to babies, is that babies LOVE to be talked to. Tell a baby a story with an animated face and voice, and the baby will stare, in rapt attention – for as long as her little brain can handle it. Then she’ll turn her face away …
Written by: Eva Bild A new mother is trying to put a horrible prickly sweater on a baby before taking him outside in the cold weather. The baby is howling and the mother is distressed. I start to explain to the baby about how cold it is outside and how the lovely sweater his grandmother …
The extra drop baby gets when the nurse or the midwife helps Mom to latch the baby on just one more time before she goes home. The extra drop baby gets from the extra five minutes Mom waits before putting baby back in her bassinet at 2am. The extra drop baby gets because a woman …
Let me start with a disclaimer. Not all babies need to have bottles. Babies who are doing well at the breast, and whose mothers are available and happy to provide the breast whenever the baby needs it, these babies do not need bottles. Not all mothers want to or need to spend time away from …
I am spending the morning working on our course for new parents – Keeping the Love Alive – When Partners become Parents It’s such a challenging topic to try to wrap up into 6 hours! Many parents see having a baby together as the ultimate expression of their love for each other. And then, once …
Chanukah was earlier this month – we had latkes galore! Our friends south of the border gave thanks, ate turkey and watched football. And now we head into the end of December – the busiest time – end of term, papers due, concerts, and “getting ready.” Increasingly through the month I get asked “Are you …
I became a doula because I was a childbirth teacher who got curious and went to a “labour support” course thinking I would learn some useful things to teach the dads and partners in my classes. This was way back in 1994, when I didn’t know the word “doula” and had a 5-year-old, a 3-year-old …
