5 Reasons Why Your Birth Can Affect Your Baby and Your Parenting
When I meet a new mum, dad and baby for the first time at a BabyCalm workshop I always start with the same question:
“tell me about your birth”
Mostly it’s met with confusion, wrinkled eyebrows and exchanged curious looks, very often they ask me “why?” straight back. After all they haven’t come to see me to talk about their birth, they’re here to see me to work out why their baby cries so much. To me though the two are so inextricably linked it is impossible to understand the issues they are having with their newborn unless we go back to the beginning (sometimes the cause goes even further back – I’m very aware of that!). So, here’s why I ask that question and why I believe that any baby calmer working with new parents MUST consider the baby’s birth in order to really help:
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