Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance

by Kelly McDaniel

Resources for Mothering The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), launched in 1991, is an effort to ensure that all maternity facilities, whether freestanding or in a hospital, become centers of breastfeeding support. Their website can guide you to a supportive facility in your area. Attachment Parenting International supports parents with science-based, attachment-focused advice. Their newsletter is very helpful. Darcia Narvaez is a researcher whose work focuses on “lifelong human wellness” and “meeting the biological needs of infants.”3 I recommend her book Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom and her blog (evolvednest.org). The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two, by William and Martha Sears, is an excellent guide from a doctor and a nurse who have raised children and now have grandchildren. The Attachment Parenting Book: A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby is another excellent resource from the Sears Parenting Library. Nighttime Parenting: How to Get Your Baby and Child to Sleep, by William Sears, explains how parenting at night is just as critical as parenting during the day. Raised Good: This blog is full of supportive guidance for natural parenting in the modern world and offers online courses (https://raisedgood.com).