We talk a lot about children learning to regulate their emotions. We want them to cope with frustration, manage disappointment, recover when something has upset them and, as they grow, begin to understand what they’re feeling and what might help. But self-regulation doesn’t begin with teaching a child how to calm down. It begins much…
Most parents spend a lot of time thinking about behaviour. How to respond to it. How to reduce it. How to stop the behaviours that feel hardest to manage. When behaviour is intense or keeps repeating, it’s hard to know what to do in the moment, especially once you’ve tried a few different approaches and…
Most parents will recognise the experience of trying to settle a baby and gradually running out of ideas. You’ve checked whether they’re hungry, tired, too hot or too cold. You’ve changed them, fed them, walked around with them, rocked them and tried different ways of holding them. They’re still unsettled, and after a while it’s…
A calm birth isn’t about staying relaxed no matter what happens. It’s not about being quiet, or compliant, or ticking off a particular kind of birth on a checklist. When women tell me their birth was calm, they’re rarely talking about what actually happened: how long it took, whether they needed help, whether it matched…
When I became a mum, I knew that parenting would be hard. I wasn’t prepared for how difficult it could sometimes be to manage my own emotions while also trying to support my children with theirs. I became a mother relatively young and didn’t have much family support around me. I was also living with…
Why Relaxation Supports Birth (And What It Changes in the Body) When we talk about relaxation in birth, it can sound as though it is mainly a way of coping with contractions and helping you feel calmer. It can definitely help with that, but there is more to it. Relaxation can also affect what is…
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