Recently ABC TV screened a British documentary called Bringing Up Baby. The program filmed an ‘experiment’ where three different parenting philosophies were applied to new parents in England.

The program followed the families involved for the first three months and judged the ‘successes’ of each method along the way. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the documentary was the criteria on which each method was assessed.

The final part of the program looked at the babies sleep patterns (whether the babies were sleeping all night), whether the parents were resuming their sexual relationship, and whether the parents were having an active social life.

It’s incredible that the criteria as to how well the parenting methods worked were assessed on the degree of interference the babies were to their parents’ lives!

Read on to read about the results of the study

Are you prepared for natural birth?

The miraculous journey of conception and pregnancy and our body systems that allow us to reproduce, are nothing short of brilliant. From two single cells forms a new and unique human being.

Women have been giving birth to their babies for eons. It is only in the last half a dozen generations that labour and birth have been altered by the rise of medical science.

Some changes have undoubtedly been positive and required to protect women and babies.

However many changes, particularly the overuse of drugs for induction and augmentation of labour, and pain-killing medications have had a negative impact on parents as they welcome their babies into the world.

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