There is so much information out there about how to raise your baby...so many "experts" and "well-wishers" telling you what to do and what NOT to do...much of this "add-vice" conflicts with itself, or even worse just doesn't seem to work for you no matter how much you try to make it fit.
It's easy for a parent to become stressed-out and confused with all the choices: Am I "ruining" my baby by nursing her to sleep, or should I let her occasionally cry herself to sleep? Will my baby catch every chance illness if I stop breast feeding, or should I breast feed until he's three? Which diaper should I choose with all the options and all the dissenting opinions--if I choose disposable, will I be adding to our land fill problem and further polluting the planet, yet if I choose cloth am I wasting our planet's most precious resource--water?
Let's stop "shoulding" ourselves to death!
I'm starting an UNDERGROUND movement; an underground movement for our BABIES; an UNDERGROUND BABY movement. A movement to educate ourselves, but choose without guilt or self-recrimination. A movement to choose what we deem best for our babies and ourselves. A movement of educated individuals who don't join together, but who choose alone.
We don't have to talk about it...that's part of the problem, anyway. If other people agree with me, it doesn't mean I'm right--it just means that other people agree with me.
You've heard of the good that the grassroots movements have done for our planet; well, now let's each be our own underground baby movement--this isn't based on groups, it's based on what we SEE to be BEST. It is based on ourselves.
And if our babies receive what we SEE to be the BEST, if we follow our own instincts for our babies...well, I suspect that our choices will ultimately be the best for our planet, too.
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