Finding Your Way: A Compassionate Framework for Parenting Decisions

The perinatal period is a tender time for a million reasons: hormones, physical changes, identity shifts, relationship strain, sleep deprivation, you name it. Add to this that every day you have to make hundreds of parenting decisions where there’s no clear right answer. Much of the conversation around the right way to parent stems from the emotional weight of cultural expectations, not research. And none of it seems to factor in the impact parenting decisions have on our well-being and capacity.