By Claire Niala for The Natural Child Project I was born and grew up in Kenya & Cote d’Ivoire. Then from the age of fifteen I lived in the UK. However, I always knew that I wanted to raise my children (whenever I had them) at home in Kenya. And yes, I assumed I was…
➠ Continue ReadingI remember my first night as a mother. I nursed my tiny baby to sleep, placed him in his crib, where he began to cry. So I calmed him, waited longer before I put him down, and yet he cried again. Since his crib was already in our room, the transition to the bed was…
➠ Continue ReadingCo-sleeping is when a parent(s), baby, and or toddler shares a bed together on a regular. Does it work? It can! Is it comfortable? Not all the time! Is it safe? If you take the proper precautions! I co-slept with my three previous babies, but this latest go-round with our fourth has not been the…
➠ Continue ReadingIn the weeks before I gave birth, I’d begun to sip on the attachment parenting Koolaid. Now I don’t call it Koolaid because it’s hogwash. I call it Koolaid because the philosophy can become addicting, and seems to often make extremists of its proponents. Having watched my mother raise four kids in a third world…
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