Nurture Nature Baby Massage

01/11/2022

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Babywearing is a win-win. It keeps children safe and secure while giving parents freedom to move and a mood-boosting ‘continual hug'

30/10/2022

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Humans have comparatively short gaps between pregnancies & our offspring also have long childhoods to grant ample time for babies' little brains to wire up. 🤰​​​​​​​​
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Other primates don't pop out their young at quite such a pace! 🦍⏰🦧​​​​​​​​
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Prolonged childhoods often mean mothers care for more than one child at a time for a long time. 👧👶👦​​​​​​​​
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But luckily, mothers are far from the whole story of parenting. 😅​​​​​​​​
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Alloparents are helpers other than the mother & father, such as grandparents, siblings, aunts & uncles, and unrelated caregivers, such as babysitters & teachers. ​​​​​​​​
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As Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, anthropologist, primatologist & author of the book 'Mothers & Others’ explains, we descend from a long line of social creatures, "innately predisposed to childminding".​​​​​​​​
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Cute wee babies with their big eyes, cherubic cheeks, sweet-smelling scalps, & piercing cries are "sensory traps" evolved to elicit care from other humans. 😍👶​​​​​​​​
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There are three core evolutionary upsides to alloparenting care:​​​​​​​​
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++ Helpers are providers & protectors for both the baby & new parents, with supported mothers having better mental health & happier, healthier children compared to those who don't have a strong social support system. ⚔️​​​​​​​​
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++ Helpers are teachers of maternal skills & pass on the knowledge obtained generation by generation by experienced mothers, sisters, aunties & grandmothers in the family. 👩‍🍼​​​​​​​​
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++ Helpers are brain builders, with the gathering of empathetic adults driving the emergence of socially-savvy intelligent brains. 🧠​​​​​​​​
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12/07/2022

28/04/2022

👏👏 Delighted to see and share this post.

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13/12/2021

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The proliferation of online sales has increased the risk of defective and dangerous toys getting into the hands of children

14/10/2021

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09/09/2021

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When we are “being with” our babies - with our stress systems regulated and baby’s stress system regulated - we are creating beautiful biological reactions in our brains and bodies. All of which develop our babies brains and our parent brains towards resilience and health 💜🧠💜

11/07/2021

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A group of high school students at Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland, recently won two international awards for inventing and designing a device enabling people in wheelchairs to push a baby stroller.

14/04/2021

18/01/2021

🙏🙏 Infant Basics and Toddler Training 🙏🙏

❤️ Honoring Martin Luther King Jr., who forever changed the world.

🤍 Do everything in love. 1 Corinthians 16:14

💙 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13

Let’s put love into action. “Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.” -Mother Theresa
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09/12/2020

It’s important to know that when we show up empathetically for our children, we are doing something much more than just being nice, more even than regulating their nervous system in the moment to help them calm down. We're stimulating the growth and development of their integrative prefrontal cortex, which allows them, as development unfolds over time, to have greater capacity for problem-solving, insight, empathy, morality, mental and emotional flexibility, creativity, curiosity, decision-making, and much more. These qualities of social and emotional intelligence, of wise discernment and of strong executive function (to plan and solve) are all essential for the world citizens of the next generation. Tap twice if you agree. ⠀
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15/11/2020

How interesting!

Have you ever wondered why we don’t remember being babies and what the research really says about baby memory? Click the link below to read about how baby memory and memory functions work, as well as how baby memory relates to children’s growth and development.

https://thenaturalparentmagazine.com/why-dont-we-remember-being-babies/

This article appeared in Natural Parent Magazine and is based on an interview I recorded with Sarah Moore of Dandelion Seeds Positive Parenting.