Having completed a PhD looking at mothering of infants 2013, I got to look at the history of mothering. These are the fascinating things I found and how the past can apply to our decisions around babcare today. Over the past two centuries, society has come to expect a great deal from mothers, and [...] Read more
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“…there there dear, have a Bex and a good lie down…”
Published on Mar 13, 2015
We’ve come a long way from the days when there was an expectation that we should button our lips and keep our emotions under wraps--and when a lack of any serious attempt to deal with emotional issues allowed medical quackery to flourish. In the past, desperation forced people to turn to [...] Read more
