Welcome to Born Free Baby!

I'm going to use this blog to chart my journey into first-time parenthood. Baby B is due in January 2011. It seems to me that there is a money-sucking baby industry out there, and you could easily believe that you have to spend an awful lot of money when you have a baby. Can this really be the case? And so much of how our Western culture treats babies (and their parents) seems to me to be at odds with what our evolution has so perfectly designed for us. Are the 2 related?

When Baby B arrives, I want to bring him/her up in a way that is free from as many of the trappings of materialism as possible, and stay as true to what mother nature intended for us as I can, given that I live in 21st Century Britain. I wonder whether bringing up Baby B in a natural, environmentally aware way will also save me money. Let's see...

I'd love to hear from other mums and dads who share the same outlook. Feel free to use this blog to share ideas, tips and philosophies on life!

Wednesday, 15 September 2010

Brands, brands, brands!

Why does everything sound as if it has been packaged and branded? I love the concepts of 'attachment parenting', 'baby wearing', 'baby-led weaning' etc etc, and plan to use these ideas when Baby B arrives. I guess that any idea that is different to the social norm will be given a name, but these names/brands sound as if they are new-fangled techniques, fads or parenting methods that someone has just invented, whereas to me they seem like common-sense attempts to reconnect with what all of our ancestors were doing until very recently.
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