Conscious Parenting

Q: Dear Jan, We have a beautiful 8 month old baby boy! We co-sleep with him, and have done for the last few months. I nurse him…

12,000 Babies Delivered by Jesusita! September is perhaps my favorite month of the year in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A distinct change of…

It is not their careless muddying of our furniture, their respectively newly grown stubble or suddenly buxom silhouettes, or even their leftover…

Mothers who do not breastfeed risk postnatal depression Read the release here and the full research document here. Mothers who bottle feed their infants…

(The following is an extract from the book, Real Kids in an Unreal World: Building Resilience and Self Esteem in Today’s Chaotic World by Maggie Dent.)…

Remembering and telling how our own family food cultures nourished (or not) and nurtured (or not) our childhoods can allow us to become present to…

Rescue Remedy Works! There is a little natural remedy bottle without which I could not have brought up my…

1 Remember that children have limits. If you are shopping with children, be alert to their needs: are they tired, hungry,…

As a midwife I have reflected on why I feel sad when I hear of, see and care for women who have elected, when there is no clinical indication, to have a…

How folktales nourish the soul One day Baba Yaga’s two trusted toads said, ‘You are truly…