Baby Information

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• Arnica - The Miracle Worker by Su-Lin Sze

Baby Info

Parents of young infants often appear to struggle with the different responsibilities and challenges of young family life.

Many pregnant couples say to me their friends seem to complain a lot about "feeding" and "sleeping" issues with their young ones, and yes, it's true that for many people it's quite a challenge. However, what a lot of mums and dads might not explain or describe to their friends, who perhaps don't have kids yet, is the immense love and pride they feel when they look at their child sleeping, or watch their child develop a new skill or learn something new.

Babies are so precious and so exquisite, especially when it's your own baby.

Nothing in the world is as special, as important, as time consuming, as beautiful, as perfect as your own baby.

Mothers fall in love with their babies, and often seem completely obsessed with their babies needs, which is, of course, a normal instinctive process, exactly how mother nature intends it to be for the survival of our species.

Mothering is such a pure, driven love, isn't it?

Becoming a father is such a different experience for men compared to the experience of becoming a mother for a woman, and many people do believe it's supposed to be quite different for each parent. Perhaps mother nature intended the mother to be the nurturer and father to be the protector. Today, roles are altering slightly for modern sophisticated mums and dads.

Fathers are wanting to be far more involved in their children's lives right from the start and modern day society is beginning to enable them to do this, unlike a couple of decades ago and prior.

Mothers are developing their role in a more varied way, with women selecting from several options rather than being limited as previous generations were.

Isn't it wonderful that parents-to-be and new parents can sift through a wide variety of ideas, information and advice to ultimately select for themselves those concepts that will fit for them and mould ideas to suit themselves rather than having to adapt to pre-determined roles which might not work for them?

The freedom is there: to choose to be adaptable and flexible to suit your family's needs as they grow, change and develop.

By Julie Clarke

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Crying and Infant Mental Health
Breastfeeding Resources
Breastfeeding Facts
Herbal Health for Mothers by Su-Lin Sze
Arnica - The Miracle Worker by Su-Lin Sze