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Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry
How to Raise a Baby - Heather Heying | Maiden Mother Matriarch 63
Mar 24, 2024
Heather Heying discusses modern guidance on breastfeeding, co-sleeping, and sleep training. Reflecting on historical inaccuracies in parenting advice. Exploring cultural perspectives on children and navigating complexities of co-sleeping advice. Critiquing official guidelines and examining historical views on infanticide and abortion in early modern England.
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- Modern parenting advice can sometimes overlook maternal intuition, caution against blindly following scientific recommendations.
- Breastfeeding faces challenges in modern times, emphasizing the need for cultural knowledge transmission to support successful practices.
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Parenting Advice and the Influence of Science
Discusses the tensions between modern scientific parenting guides and maternal intuition. It highlights how self-consciously modern advice can sometimes overlook the intuitive wisdom of mothers, warning against blindly following scientific recommendations without questioning their validity. The conversation delves into historical errors in parenting guidance, cautioning against placing unwavering trust in scientific authority without critical examination of the advice given.
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