The Birth Roots Blog, Taking Root
Giving Tuesday at Birth Roots
Throughout the year Birth Roots alumni share with us that they consider the friends they gained through their involvement with Birth Roots among their most cherished gifts of becoming a parent. It is our intention that when new parents meet each other through time...
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5 Steps Toward Building New Family Traditions After Having a Baby
Becoming a parent is a transformation in SO many ways but one thing that is often slow to react is family traditions. This may be a wonderful thing, or it may be a source of some frustration. Suddenly, traveling to 4 houses over two days during cold winter holidays...
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Healing Play for Toddlers
Toddlers don’t have a whole lot of say in how the world works and often struggle to communicate in a fast-moving, big world. Sometimes this sense of powerlessness can bring up off-track behaviors like tantrums, whining, inflexibility, and aggression. The games on this...
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One + One : Toddlers and Siblings
One thing you should know about Birth Roots is that we LISTEN and we are always looking for ways to improve what we offer and to find ways to better support parents. Birth Roots has been expanding our programming over the past couple of years based on the two most...
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Figuring Out Parenting Fears
Summer in Maine can be likened to the joy and light that comes with pregnancy and parenting. The anticipation of things to come, planning, surprises, unexpected pleasures and unscripted moments of the unique period of early parenthood are found within these thawed and...
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Oxytocin = Pumpkin Bread
At Birth Roots, we talk a lot about the lesser known, hormonal opposite of adrenaline, called OXYTOCIN. The hormone of love, community, bonding and relaxation. It is so incredibly important in so many of the processes around pregnancy, birth (literally makes...
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