Pamela Green's Montessori Birthing Services

11/09/2025

Babies process foreign languages they heard in utero much like their mother tongue, researchers find

06/29/2025

A REVOLUTION IN EDUCATION
The discovery that the child has a mind able to absorb on its own account produces a revolution in education. We can now understand easily why the first period in human development, in which character is formed, is the most important. At no other age has the child greater need of an intelligent help, and any obstacle that impedes his creative work will lessen the chance he has of achieving perfection. We should help the child…because he is endowed with great creative energies, which are of their nature so fragile as to need a loving and intelligent defence. To these energies we want to bring help… When we understand that the energies belong to an unconscious mind, which has to become conscious through work and through an experience of life gained in the world, we realize that the mind of the child in infancy is different from ours, that we cannot reach it by verbal instruction, nor intervene directly in the process of its passing from the unconscious to the conscious – the process of making human faculty – then the whole concept of education changes. It becomes a matter of giving help to the child’s life, to the psychological development of man…
This is the new path on which education has been put; to help the mind in its process of development, to aid its energies and strengthen its many powers. Page 23-24 from the book The Absorbent Mind: https://montessori-pierson.com/vol-1-the-absorbent-mind.html; https://montessori-pierson.com/sp-3-mente-absorbente-del-ni-o.html

06/29/2025

06/22/2025

Thought for the weekend...

When we birth, we don’t just birth babies.

We birth ourselves, we birth our families and we reshape our lives.

It’s so important to get good information on which to base pregnancy and birth decisions.

Because they can affect us for a very long time.

Perhaps the rest of your life.

It's also important to understand that it doesn't matter what the guideline says, or what anyone else thinks.

What matters is what's right for you.

This quote comes from one of my books, which helps people understand birth-related decision making and how to navigate your options.

it's called What's Right For Me? Making decisions in pregnancy and childbirth.

More details at https://www.sarawickham.com/me

06/22/2025

This quote is worth digesting. Eat up... 🌿

06/19/2025

A baby’s cry is a biological signal that their body is in distress and they need support.

In early development, their brain relies on these moments to shape how it responds to the world. When a caregiver consistently shows up, the brain begins to wire for safety, connection, and trust.

When those cries are ignored, the baby’s body stays flooded with stress, and the brain starts preparing for a world where needs go unmet. This affects how they regulate emotion, how they seek comfort, and how they form relationships—often in ways that are hard to undo.

Always tend to your little one’s physical and emotional needs. Their future depends on it.