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We are dedicated to helping mothers experience the natural joy and fulfillment breastfeeding brings, and to giving children the purist and most beneficial beginning to their lives. Your decision to practice the principles of natural parenting will reap both spiritual and physical benefits for you and your child throughout your lives.

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Natural Parenting is a philosophy of gentle, healthy childbirth and growth.  It means many things to many people, but generally includes natural childbirth, breastfeeding, and attachment parenting.  Other practices and ideas commonly included in the definition of natural parenting are: co-sleeping (family bed), informed decisions about immunizations and circumcision,  avoidance of the use of surrogates (pacifiers and bottles), child-led weaning, natural diet and health and much more.  Some also include home schooling, and other topics related to older kids, but our emphasis here is primarily on babies.  
Natural Parenting is not going back in time or being stuck in an era long past.  On the contrary, new research continues to underscore the  principles of natural parenting as the most beneficial and least hazardous of parenting options.  

Natural Parenting treats technology with caution and emphasizes the need for parents to make fully informed decisions, and not to just go along with U.S. cultural norms simply because everyone else is doing it.  
Natural Parenting implies a healthy distrust of the average medical practice.  Why, parents ask, do doctors acknowledge the superiority of breastfeeding, but continue to push artificial baby milks (formula) and routinely dispense advice that undermines breastfeeding? (One example of thousands).  Adherents of Natural Parenting may include some kooks and quacks, but mostly they are just concerned parents trying to do the best thing for their child.  The basic principles may not be popular but they are proven by time and by science to be best - not always easiest - just best.

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We believe (because of our experience and research) that:

  1. The greatest benefit to mothers and babies comes through long-term breastfeeding.
  2. At birth there should be no separation of mother and baby.   Breastfeeding should be initiated within the first hour.
  3. Children know when they are ready to wean.
  4. "Substituting" breastfeeding with artificial milk may undermine breastfeeding.
  5. Parents should make  informed decisions about breastfeeding and parenting issues.  Their decision should be based on spiritual feelings, scientific research, and the experiences of others. Their decisions should not be based on advertising, popular culture, doctors "orders" or selfish desires.

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