Category Archives: Preparing for Parenting

Preparing for birth, pregnancy, and parenting

• Wordless Wednesday: Labor

  This week we asked you to share labor with us. Read more about preparing for birth on our resource page. Link up!  MORE

• My First Menstrual Cup

  Mandy discusses her switch to reusable menstrual products.  MORE

• Embracing Our Potential: Birth as a Metaphor

  Regardless of what our birth experiences are, the metaphor of birth is there to aid us in our journey through life.  MORE

• Resources to Reduce Birth Fear

  Amy shares several resources as well as an approach to self-care to help women work with fear surrounding birth.  MORE

• Giveaway: Intensive Repair Oil From Avishi Organics — $39 ARV {5.19; US} CLOSED

  This is a joint giveaway with The Artful Mama and Natural Parents Network for a bottle of Avishi Organics Intensive Repair Oil. Contest is open to US mailing addresses and closes May 19.  MORE

• Giveaway: The Other Baby Book – $13 ARV {4.16; Worldwide} CLOSED

  The Other Baby Book is a wonderfully written parenting book with no-nonsense advice from two natural parenting mamas who have been there and done that. They tell it like it is, without judgment and with loving, sound, and gentle advice.  MORE

• Trying to Conceive while Breastfeeding

  A reader asks our NPN Mentors about trying to conceive while breastfeeding.  MORE

• A Language Lesson for Infertility

  As if the world of trying to conceive wasn’t confusing enough, there are also many terms and abbreviations that you may hear or see written when you delve into this world. This post has a mini dictionary of some terms that seem to come up over and over again!  MORE

• Embracing the Hospital Birth Experience

  I almost feel like a natural parenting blasphemer when I confess that I truly enjoyed my hospital birth experience.  MORE

• What to Say (and What NOT to Say) to a New/Pregnant Parent Who Receives a “Special Needs” Diagnosis

  More than 100 parents of children with special needs respond to the question “what should I say (and not say) to a pregnant/new parent who has received a special needs diagnosis?” Learn how you can respond with sensitivity.  MORE

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