The Discontented Little Baby Book

For all of us, physical discomfort is less noticeable when the body is drenched in pleasurable sensation – a warm bath, for example, or a massage.

our longing to give our child the best of all possible lives.

Despite the prevailing powerful social condemnations of bed-sharing, nearly half of Western parents bed-share at least some of the night in the baby’s first 3 months.

Normal healthy babies vomit frequently, with varying force, including some projectile vomits. In fact, research shows that two-thirds of babies vomit regularly, and that the vomiting peaks at 4 months of age.

The fact is, we all have distressing stories about our own incompetence that play through our minds

are in, near to you, surrounded by daylight and the healthy sounds of family life.

Segmented sleep appeared to remain quite common even until the late 1800s,

After 60 years of anxious, expert-driven over-control of family meal-times, we’ve finally learnt that parents need to relax about food intake. The little saying, ‘Parent provides, child decides’

Unfortunately, burping is not entirely harmless. It interferes with the baby’s sleepiness at the end of a feed, waking the baby up and overriding the combined effects of sleep pressure, the hormones of satiety, and the parasympathetic nervous system. For this reason, burping interferes with the biological drivers of infant sleep.

opportunity to unplug, to ground yourself in sensation, to remember a corporeal intelligence, to return to the landscape of the body