About IndigoBird

Catherine is a Work At Home web designing Mum of two beautiful girls, and co-owner of Natural Mamas.

Babywearing & Breastfeeding Colouring Sheets

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We have teamed up with Sarah from Embrace Art to bring you a set of FREE babywearing and breastfeeding colouring sheets. Sarah set up Embracing Art after an overwhelmingly positive response to her drawing on the Natural Mamas forum. You can admire her art on the Embracing Art Facebook page and she also has a [...]

Buttons For Your Website

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Here are some buttons for you to use on your website or blog so that you can link back to Natural Mamas. If you wish to add your own username (as in the first example) our suggested font is Century Gothic. Click on your required image to view it full size, then right click to [...]

Nature and Child Reunion

Nature and child reunion by Hannah Fort Teller Lie down. Look up. Watch the clouds. I was at a friend’s house last week and we’d had a lovely afternoon with lots of people, lots of children and some lovely food. As everything was calming down and people were drifting home my 3 year old, who [...]

Attachment Parenting In A Nutshell

Attachment parenting is a term coined by American Paediatrician Dr William Sears. He talks about the 7 B’s ( Birth Bonding, Breastfeeding, Babywearing, Bedding close to baby, Belief in the language value of your babies cry and Beware of Baby trainers). Attachment parenting international has 8 principles ( Prepare for Pregnancy Birth and Parenting, Feed with [...]

Babyloss – Still birth and infant death

Author Jeanette Archer from Lazy Seamstress 17 babies are still born or die shortly after birth every day in the UK. In July 2009 after a robustly healthy pregnancy and normal natural delivery my youngest daughter collapsed and died just six hours after she was born. Before Florence was born, I was aware that sometimes [...]

TICKS

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The TICKS Rule for Safe Babywearing   The TICKS guidelines were  created by the UK Consortium of Sling Manufacturers and Retailers. We have the PDF file available here for printing and sharing.  If you click on the image the PDF file will open.

Co-Sleeping Facts, Figures and Opinions

By Anne McEwan from WrapMyBaby What is co sleeping? Technically co sleeping when talking about infants/children merely indicates that you will be sharing your sleeping space with them. This can be sharing a surface or it can mean that your child sleeps on their own surface in your room or in a co sleeper attached [...]

Cloth Nappies – Why I Use Wool

Nyree Dawn Dowell – Bums ‘n’ Roses Why Wool? Well, wool is really rather wonderful! Not only does it combine being breathable and water repellent with moisture absorbency, it’s naturally antibacterial, anti-fungal, and antimicrobial in addition to being a renewable, biodegradable product! It’s breathability can reduce the likelihood of nappy rash and it’s often gentler [...]

Breastfeeding Support Links

The following links have proved helpful to our members who needed breastfeeding support. NHS Breastfeeding Site La Leche League (LLL) UK National Childbirth Trust (NCT) Breastfeeding Network Association of Breastfeeding Mothers (ABM) The Baby Cafe Kellymom

Find Local Natural Mamas

Enjoyed making friends online? Want to see if you can find someone local enough to you to meet up or want to see what there is available where you live? We have The Local. A section of sub-forums dedicated to finding out what is happening in your area! Any related event can be advertised and [...]