Do you speak English? Do you breastfeed? Do you wear your baby?
Welcome to the ANPA Natural Parenting Association.
Do you speak English? Do you breastfeed? Do you wear your baby? Do you sleep with your baby? The ANPA may be for you.
Our parenting is based on the golden standard, WHO recommended breastfeeding and our support is for parents who share the same standards and want to go beyond. Here you will find a very small selection of documents and testimonies compared to what is available on the forum. You can see our photo galerie on the website offering a glimpse into our lives as active parents, free, independant of bottles, (except the champagne kind of course) push chairs, cots, painful front packs and lots more of the expensive equipment that we used to think we needed to be happy parents.
Do you speak English? Do you breastfeed? Do you wear your baby? Do you sleep with your baby? The ANPA may be for you.
Our parenting is based on the golden standard, WHO recommended breastfeeding and our support is for parents who share the same standards and want to go beyond. Here you will find a very small selection of documents and testimonies compared to what is available on the forum. You can see our photo galerie on the website offering a glimpse into our lives as active parents, free, independant of bottles, (except the champagne kind of course) push chairs, cots, painful front packs and lots more of the expensive equipment that we used to think we needed to be happy parents.
Would you like to join us? Here's how.
If you are not yet a member, and to be sure the ANPA is for you, you can download the charter/quesionnaire from the website: http://anpa.weebly.com and if you agree with our basic philosophy, please send your membership check in. Please ask for the postal address at: astharte@gmail.com
The 25€ annual membership is payable by cheque or paypal. Paypal payments of 26,23€ can be made to anpainfrance@gmail.com
A year's membership gives you access to the discussion list, the open house dates, meetings, brunch dates, and all the information based and priceless support that comes with it.
Welcome to the ANPA community.
All the members of ANPA.
The 25€ annual membership is payable by cheque or paypal. Paypal payments of 26,23€ can be made to anpainfrance@gmail.com
A year's membership gives you access to the discussion list, the open house dates, meetings, brunch dates, and all the information based and priceless support that comes with it.
Welcome to the ANPA community.
All the members of ANPA.
Stay at home mothers are rarely at home.
You most often can find them attending or leading, meetings, conférences, seminars, workshops, or helping other new moms figure it out. Children in tow.
Breastfeeding a baby is not « doing nothing ».
Breastfeeding is multi tasking. A woman breastfeeding is doing at least 4 things. She is not only feeding and nurturing her child, while killing any germs who dared come their way, while protecting the child from diabètes, obesity, allergies etc, she is also protecting herself from reproductive cancers, diabètes and osteoporosis among other health risks linked to no breastfeeding.
Increases in the mother’s hormonal activity in nerve cells in her hippocampus, gives her improved memory and Learning skills. This is believed to increase her protection against Alzheimers.
When she carryies anywhere between 3 and 14 kilos while breastfeeding, she is getting closer to her destination. If you add to those multi-tasking activitiesn while talking on her cell, smiling at admirers while keeping an eye on her fun loving 3 year old on 3 wheels with total disregard for pedestrians, you have an example of a typical, « stay at home » breastfeeding mother.
(You can add that to your CV for the next time you’re looking for more work.)
In order to breastfeed beyond a few weeks or days in an environment where doctors tell you that tinned powderderd milk is good enough for your child, and that the real function of your breasts is to keep men amused, you have to be very well read, or have access to internet, and know where to look, or have a great number of strong minded, well read women supporting you. To help yourself help your family, you need to look for the information. Advertising it in waiting rooms would be bad for the milk substitute business ! If you’re smart enough to be looking beyond advertising for information on your and your babie’s health and well being you are at the right place. Stay at home moms are rarely at home. We’re not depending on the dairy industry or laboratories to tell us what to do and what to eat. We’re exchanging information with each other. If you want to take control of your own destiny, and stop letting other people decide your child’s future health problems, join a mother’s group today. Go to the meetings, read the books, read the websites, and take back what always was yours to begin with, your baby, your body, your life.
http://www.upmc.com/MediaRelations/NewsReleases/2010/Documents/lactaction_diabetes.pdf
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/news/news/1063/
