The Discontented Little Baby Book

The metronome version of time disappears for a while, and stretched, flexible time plays out around you. The hours repeat themselves in spirals and circles, in slow ebbs and flows. It’s a version of time that is available to you when you spend time with the baby, so that the baby becomes an emissary from another world,

our longing to give our child the best of all possible lives.

opportunity to unplug, to ground yourself in sensation, to remember a corporeal intelligence, to return to the landscape of the body

Around half of Australian women go back to work in the first year of their baby’s lives,

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From this time until today, well-intentioned experts advocate breastfeeding, but accidentally set it up to fail.

The fact is, we all have distressing stories about our own incompetence that play through our minds

Values are different to goals, because goals can be achieved (or not achieved, as the case may be!). Values are like the four points of the compass, or the stars overhead: they can’t ever be reached, but they tell us the direction in which we want to travel. Your values are unique to you, like the shape of your hand or the colour of your eyes, and

Despite the prevailing powerful social condemnations of bed-sharing, nearly half of Western parents bed-share at least some of the night in the baby’s first 3 months.