Before baby arrives, parents should be well-versed on how normal it is for babies to wake/ need night time parenting in the first few years of life. This allows time for discussions about how they can set themselves up to handle this in the way to keep their family as rested and well as possible.

Caring for a baby is not always easy, nor is it always convenient.
This doesn’t mean you are doing anything wrong.
Raising whole new humans IS hard work.
it’s also deeply meaningful, valuable, impactful work.
Nurture on ✨
##infantmentalhealth #sleep #peersupport #coregulation #parentingsupport

If someone’s advice stands in the way of you responding to your baby the way they need, feel free to chuck that advice in the bin 🚮 with urgency.

The Albanese Government said it will force people in Australia to Nauru after bribing the country with an undisclosed amount of money.

History has told us what will happen next: people will die, families will be separated, and the major parties will still blame migrants for problems they created.

Reading this again from Yvette @southernnaturalparentingnetwork and all I can hear in my head is some Rage Against the Machine … f%^* you, I won’t do what they tell me!!! 🥵😤🥺😵‍💫 sleep training culture is a stain.
Nurture on ✨

Who to trust?
The baby book/ social media sleep guru or your baby?
The sleep whisperer tells you your baby needs to *learn* to settle themself to sleep.
Your baby tells you they love to settle in your arms and at your breast.
Answer: ✨YOUR BABY. Trust your baby. And your heart ✨
You’ve got this

When a baby is unsettled, the answer to their distress should never be to leave them cry alone.
Ever.
Your nurturing presence and attempts to soothe buffer them from the toxic stress experienced when they have no one there to coregulate their immature stress system.
✨Soothe your heart out✨

Thanks for amplifying 🙌

Infant sleep support should never pit a parent’s need for adequate sleep and rest against their infant’s need for adequate sleep, rest, comfort and coregulation.
The needs of parent AND their baby must be held and protected ✨
It’s not us vs them littlesparklers.org/infant-and-t...

✨Nurturing our babies is world healing✨
Their brain is wiring a stress system that knows how it feels to down regulate in a healthy way. It knows that there is more to life than fight/ flight/ freeze/ fawn …
They know deep in their cells that they matter to others and others matter to them.

✨Nurturing our babies is world healing✨
That little heart and mind is thriving in your care.
They are learning through your dedication, trust and coregulation how it feels to be safe, held, valued and respected.
They are learning that the world feels good when we care for each other.

The reality of modern day parenting is that a lot of parents will have chronically unmet needs. This undoubtedly takes a toll on your mind and body. Give yourself grace if you aren’t as regulated as you would like to be.

✨Nurture is healing✨
For everyone nurturing babies feeling restless or uncertain, wanting to do more to change the trajectory of our world but currently swallowed whole by caregiving … Settle in and nurture your heart out.
Love on those babies abundantly and extravagantly without reserve.