Happy International Women's day 2014!

There was a time when mothers will share their parenting experiences with other women around.
In the family, at work, in social gatherings...
Families where more extense and in many case they shared the same house. Grandmothers, aunts, sisters and neighbours where there to support eachother with parenting issues and that was the natural way of doing it.
Sadly, being a mother today can be one of the most lonely experiences a woman can have in life.
Big cities are not made for natural mothering, families are getting smaller in size and relatives live far from eachother. Being a mum has lately becomed (and it is still now) the less good option for a woman. Choosing motherhood is today a social, profesional, physical, psychological, economic sacrifice.

This is why I want to share my experience with you. To show that it might still be possible. To show you that you are not alone...Hopefully the web can help us today to restablish that natural mothering style that used to be so helpfull for our great grand mothers many years ago.

 

Conversation among Women. Fresco, 1st century CE. 

Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli.

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