Best Baby Beginnings

09/18/2026

It starts in the first three years.

08/29/2026

Of course you meant it! 💋 This where it all begins & the little ones are courageous enough to keep coming, and the moms keep birthing Life & Hope into the world, as they’ve done since the beginnings of Humanity. It is time, high time, for the Feminine Spirit to be honored as the nurturer & caregiver of all that we have evolved to Be.
It is crucial the She rises in true partnership to ensure our species does not de-generate.
It is easy to get hypnotized by a skewed world view & order. Personally, I must remember that my Hope & focus must be uplifting Best Baby Beginnings
💟Thanks for this reminder Marianne

We’re living at a time when life is like a split screen; it’s as though we’re living in two parallel universes. On one hand, an entire world order around us is crumbling; on the other, a new and more beautiful world is struggling to be born.

I haven’t been posting on our political situation for the last few weeks, because there’s little I can tell you that isn’t blaring at you from other sources. You and I both know what’s happening, and I continue to comment on all that on my Substack. But it’s important to clear our palette sometimes too, and remind ourselves of the world that’s struggling to be born.

The two are deeply connected. It’s only in living more deeply that we can influence the world more widely. Showing up for our relationships more fully - in particular, being there for the children just coming into and growing up in this world - is a sacred responsibility. Yesterday I received two texts from friends with pictures of their newborn babies, and throughout each day I eagerly await pictures from my daughter and son-in-law of my own grandchildren. In the spiritual search for the experience of Awe and Wonder, I don’t think there’s a greater opportunity that simply gazing at the miracle of childhood.

Make no mistake about it, if we’re to create a new and more beautiful world then children will be far more central to it. To those who are family members, teachers, or caretakers of little ones, let’s never forget that nothing, and I mean nothing, is a more important contribution to the healing of the world. Someone asked me last night what I had done that was important during the day. I responded, “I started teaching my one-year old granddaughter how to blow a kiss.” He didn’t realize this, but I meant it…

08/14/2026

Typical baby exploring their new world.

07/26/2026

One of the most underrated parts of breastfeeding?

Sometimes biology lets everyone get a little more sleep.

Human babies are born with powerful instincts that help them seek the breast, especially when they're close to their mother. It's one of countless ways human biology has been shaped to support both mother and baby.

No gadgets.
No batteries.
No software update.

Just millions of years of biology quietly doing what it was designed to do.

Breastfeeding isn't just food.

Sometimes it's one of the most convenient parenting features nature ever came up with. ❤️

06/11/2026

In the early 1900s, Black midwives attended nearly 75% of births in the Southeastern United States. Then came Abraham Flexner. His influential report reshaped American medicine, moving birth from homes to hospitals and pushing midwives out.

Flexner’s vision emphasized university training, laboratory science, and physician authority. Childbirth, once largely managed by community midwives, was reframed as one that took place in hospitals under physician care.

What happened next? Access to care narrowed for many rural and Black communities who had long relied on midwives. Generations of knowledge and valued traditions were lost. And today, Black women still experience the highest maternal mortality rates in the United States. Many scholars and clinicians argue that rebuilding midwifery, especially community-based models, could improve maternal health outcomes and restore trust in care during one of the most significant events in a woman's life.