A natural approach to family life

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Breastfeeding support

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  • The pressure to breastfeed and its impact on mothers

    The pressure to breastfeed and its impact on mo...

    Come, take a journey with me. Two years postpartum after my second child, my best friend Jo and I compare breasts (as one does) in the bathroom at a good friend’s wedding back home in Mauritius. She, like me, has had all the meat sucked out of her once perky bosom. Mine are similarly deflated, though still determined to point forwards. “You know I only managed about eight months between them,” I remark. “So much pain and stress for so little. If I had to do it again, I’m not sure I would breastfeed.” Her eyes widen – larger than I have ever seen them. Glancing around us at the empty bathroom, she presses a fearful finger against my lip. “Shh, Liz!” she hisses. “Don’t say that!” “Why not?” I whisper, confused, “Who’s listening?” This is one of my funnier memories of my experience, though there are plenty I could...

    The pressure to breastfeed and its impact on mothers

    Come, take a journey with me. Two years postpartum after my second child, my best friend Jo and I compare breasts (as one does) in the bathroom at a good...

  • Six mums share their experiences of breastfeeding beyond babyhood

    Six mums share their experiences of breastfeedi...

    I first began my MILK project in 2020, when my eldest daughter was just about to turn 5, as a way to connect with other mothers who were also breastfeeding beyond infancy. It just so happens that the UK has some of the lowest breastfeeding/chestfeeding rates in the world, which made this project feel even more important to me. I’ve been breastfeeding for the past 8 years. My daughter decided to stop just before her 6th birthday, and now I can feel my breastfeeding journey slowly coming to an end with my son, who’s 4 and a half. It feels bittersweet. He is my last, and when our journey ends, it will mark a shift in my journey as a mother. I will still be needed but no longer through my body, which has been shared and not completely my own for over eight years. Breastfeeding has become such a...

    Six mums share their experiences of breastfeeding beyond babyhood

    I first began my MILK project in 2020, when my eldest daughter was just about to turn 5, as a way to connect with other mothers who were also breastfeeding...

  • Milk: an interview with Professor Amy Brown

    Milk: an interview with Professor Amy Brown

    Amy Brown is professor of maternal and child public health at Swansea University and director of the research centre LIFT (Lactation, Infant Feeding and Translation). She talks to Alice Ellerby about breastfeeding... Amy Brown is a force of nature when it comes to advocating for maternal and infant health. Through her research and writing, she is working towards a future in which women and families feel respected, valued and supported in growing, birthing and caring for their babies. Breastfeeding is her particular field of interest. Though she describes breastfeeding her own babies as “fairly straightforward”, it was during this time that she became interested in infant feeding as an area of research. “I often met women who had experienced challenges that led them to stop before they were ready,” she says. “I wanted to make a difference. I wanted to understand all the subtle (and not so subtle) barriers that...

    Milk: an interview with Professor Amy Brown

    Amy Brown is professor of maternal and child public health at Swansea University and director of the research centre LIFT (Lactation, Infant Feeding and Translation). She talks to Alice Ellerby...

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Parenting support

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  • How leaning into instinct has improved our parenting lives

    How leaning into instinct has improved our pare...

    In my first, delirious months of motherhood, I hungrily searched for tips, tricks and ‘hacks’ that might make my son sleep for longer stretches. Night feeds were spent scrolling through forums; daytime cluster feeds were spent thumbing through books about baby sleep. Seemingly, other babies slept. Other babies could be put down. Why couldn’t my baby? While I was searching desperately for external guidance, my instincts were screaming at me. On the rare occasions that my son slept for an hour or so in his crib, I was too anxious to sleep. I felt strongly that he should be next to me at all times, but I’d read the warnings about bed-sharing. In my anxious, sleep-deprived state, I took these warnings at face value and persisted with trying to put him down in the crib. Nights were spent sat up in the nursing chair, as I tried to defy basic...

    How leaning into instinct has improved our parenting lives

    In my first, delirious months of motherhood, I hungrily searched for tips, tricks and ‘hacks’ that might make my son sleep for longer stretches. Night feeds were spent scrolling through...

  • How NLP techniques can support in motherhood

    How NLP techniques can support in motherhood

    Motherhood can be a rollercoaster journey, full of glimmers, magical memories, tough days, long nights and moments of doubt. Being a mum is twofold: supporting your child to grow and be healthy and happy, and also nourishing yourself to grow too. In becoming a mother, you can learn so much about yourself, though this can be met with uncertainty, limiting beliefs and negative internal chatter, especially of ‘not being a good enough mum’ or feeling guilty for needing (and wanting) your own space. Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) can support mums to move beyond this. It is a tool that can help to build self-awareness. As an approach, NLP seeks to understand and improve human communication and behaviour. It was developed in the 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, who believed that by modelling the language and behaviour of successful people, they could create techniques to help others achieve similar success....

    How NLP techniques can support in motherhood

    Motherhood can be a rollercoaster journey, full of glimmers, magical memories, tough days, long nights and moments of doubt. Being a mum is twofold: supporting your child to grow and...

  • A birth mother and a non-birth mother, Alice Ellerby considers her parental role

    A birth mother and a non-birth mother, Alice El...

    On Children by Kahlil Gibran Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.They come through you but not from you,And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts,For they have their own thoughts.You may house their bodies but not their souls,For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you withHis might that His arrows may go swift and far.Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;For even as...

    A birth mother and a non-birth mother, Alice Ellerby considers her parental role

    On Children by Kahlil Gibran Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.They come through you but not from you,And though they...

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Family Time

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  • Welcoming a new life with humanist naming ceremonies

    Welcoming a new life with humanist naming cerem...

    Lucy Dulieu describes the personalised celebration that welcomes a child into the world... What is a humanist naming ceremony? A humanist naming ceremony marks the arrival of a new child to a family in a nonreligious way. They are often held for babies and toddlers, but ceremonies can also welcome older adopted children to a family, or step-children to a blended family. Each ceremony is personalised and allows parents to celebrate their child as a unique individual, to reflect on the wonder and responsibility of being a parent, and to share in front of family and friends a commitment to their child on their journey to independence.  Warm and welcoming, humanist naming ceremonies are child-centred and inclusive. They can be held anywhere: a garden, a village hall, or in a woodland surrounded by nature. Led by an experienced humanist celebrant, they often happen at the start of a larger celebratory...

    Welcoming a new life with humanist naming ceremonies

    Lucy Dulieu describes the personalised celebration that welcomes a child into the world... What is a humanist naming ceremony? A humanist naming ceremony marks the arrival of a new child...

  • Voice of a Grandparent: Anita

    Voice of a Grandparent: Anita

    I’m Anita and I have four granddaughters of school age. Only one goes to a school establishment, while the other three are home educated. Being a lady of a certain age, the news that my eldest daughter wanted to home school her children at first horrified me. I knew of no one whose children did not go to school. School is part of life, isn’t it? That first day when you leave your mother at the school door and enter the world of ‘standing on your own two feet’. It is where you discover how to be independent for a few hours a day while learning the basics of the three R’s. It is where you make friends for life. Or is it? I went to school in the 1960s and 70s when corporal punishment was rife, although I was never a victim of it. There wasn’t a national curriculum,...

    Voice of a Grandparent: Anita

    I’m Anita and I have four granddaughters of school age. Only one goes to a school establishment, while the other three are home educated. Being a lady of a certain...

  • How to have a plastic-free party that doesn't cost the earth

    How to have a plastic-free party that doesn't c...

    Following a recent run of family celebrations, two things struck me. One was how toxic the balloons tasted when I was blowing them up, and the other was how much plastic rubbish there was after each of the parties. This got me thinking about what alternatives I could use to the usual plastic paraphernalia that surrounds parties, without becoming a plastic-obsessed party pooper. Anyone with children knows the drill following a party. They come home high on sugar, clutching a plastic party bag full of plastic-wrapped sweets and a variety of plastic tat that gets discarded as soon as the sweets have been consumed. I have been a part of this trend and have sent more than my fair share of children home with such things before spending an hour scooping up all of the party rubbish into several black bin bags and heading home grateful to have survived. However,...

    How to have a plastic-free party that doesn't cost the earth

    Following a recent run of family celebrations, two things struck me. One was how toxic the balloons tasted when I was blowing them up, and the other was how much...

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A Chance to Win

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