Cathy Garbin in Perth, Western Australia | Womens health clinic

Cathy Garbin

Locality: Perth, Western Australia

Phone: +61 407 778 183

Address: 119 The Boulevarde 6014 Perth, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.cathygarbin.com

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25.01.2022 Celebrate yourself every year and be proud of all that you have invested in your child since their last birthday. Parenting is a day in day out labour of love. ... But there is something particularly unique about the demands of the first year. All the holding. All the carrying. The nearly constant 24/7 contact. The inability to put them down a lot of days. The colic. The crying. The amount of steps it takes to make a simple cup of tea. The amount of steps it takes to be able to then drink it. The frequent feeding. The pacing up and down. All the soothing. The need to understand when there are no words yet. Their lack of ability to understand what you're saying. The disrupted nights. All the help to nap. The brain fog. The feeling pushed to your limits some days. The early years are such a privilege, but there is no denying they are full on. The challenges of parenting remain irrespective of age, and change with age. No age is 'easy'. But - there is something unique about the sheer relentlessness of the demands in that first year with a very little one. And today, we're recognising that. So, if you're nearly at the end of your first year, or there now, or someone you know is - Celebrate yourself and celebrate them. You've/they've just done 365 days of *intensive nurturing*. Well done you. Well done them.

25.01.2022 Some great recipes

23.01.2022 Babies are not robots. I know that is a ridiculous thing to say, but I sometimes wonder if we forget that they are tiny, thinking, feeling beings with needs. T...hink about the last 24hrs of your life. When did you decide to eat, drink, rest, play on social media, talk to your friend/partner/relative and go to sleep? Did you do all of these activities based on the clock? Or did you do them in response to physical and emotional internal drives? ie did you eat because you were hungry, drink because you were thirsty and slept because you were tired? Or because the clock struck 12, or 10? Can you imagine how frustrating it would be to have somebody override all of these innate drives and tell you exactly when you could or most importantly couldn’t eat, drink, play, sleep and rest? Why do we impose this on babies? Why do we think we know their levels of hunger, thirst, tiredness and need for human interaction better than them? If you want to learn more about the gentle approach to baby and child sleep, pop over to my Gentle Sleep Book page at http://www.facebook.com/TheGentleSleepBook

23.01.2022 Some great tips here

22.01.2022 The secret to life- change

21.01.2022 Happy happy birthday to this little cutie! @noni_jane We are so proud of the woman you are now. Love you xxx

20.01.2022 This is my absolutely favourite parenting quote - anybody who has been to one of my talks or workshops will have heard me refer to it. When I talk about Gentle ...and effective discipline I always talk about the true meaning of discipline - from the Latin ‘discere’; which means to learn. Great discipline always involves a teacher and a student. Most of the time the adult steps in to the shoes of the teacher and the child plays the role of the student, but sometimes these roles flip. A great teacher should be humble enough and possess enough humility and self-awareness to know that sometimes, they need to become the student again, to learn from those they are trying to teach and constantly improve their skills. So, effective discipline means that sometimes, as adults, we become the student (with grace) and look to our children to lead the way. What is their behaviour telling us? What unmet needs do they have? What do they need us to change in order to accommodate them better? Being willing to learn from children is one of the keys of a great teacher. Repeatedly using the same old discipline techniques that are ineffective and never considering the child’s point of view (aka time out, naughty steps, bribery, detention etc) is akin to lunacy. If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you always get....if you want true change in behaviour then you have to start with changing yours. Check out my ‘Gentle Discipline’ Book for more! .

20.01.2022 This little piece is important for all Mums to read

17.01.2022 @jane_perica @good.louise how about this one of your mum and dad with our house in the background. I don’t think your mum had her heart in the shooting exercise somehow none the less a great shot of your dad and the times.

17.01.2022 These 2 beautiful 70year old trees will be destroyed today. The Illawarra flame tree integrated into the design of this proposed new home would have been clever and magnificent. But alas it is more important to have 6 toilets in the design of the new house. The Canary Island date palm, iconic to The Boulevard Floreat also doesn’t fit! Cambridge Council wake up and save these beauties, give these old trees room to breath, live and continue to enhance the beauty of our suburbs. Isn’t seeing all the Norfolk Island Palms dying before our eyes a wake up call. We need trees.

13.01.2022 A very important paper

13.01.2022 https://architectureau.com/articles/calyx-homeless-housing/ Clever architecture enhances the built environment so much

12.01.2022 watch this short little clip, it is powerful

11.01.2022 Do you pump breastmilk for your baby who is less than 6 months of age, or know someone who does? Volunteers greatly appreciated, please share :) Thank you!

11.01.2022 A great service

10.01.2022 A father is neither an anchor to hold them back, nor a sail to take them there, but a guiding light who’s love shows them the way. Wishing all father figures and special people in our lives a wonderful Father’s Day

10.01.2022 Kalgoorlie Cup 2020

09.01.2022 Do you ever stop consider how odd it is that so many advise that you don’t cuddle your baby too much? Picking up and hugging a baby is the most natural thing in... the world, whether it’s your own baby or somebody else’s. We have this instinctive drive to want to squidge and protect them. When they cry, it sets off innate drives that have protected our species since the dawn of time. Avoiding picking a baby up ‘too much’ (whatever that means), literally goes against every ounce of evolutionary driven behaviour and biology in our bodies. What has the world come to when so many believe hugging too much is ‘spoiling’? What a broken and harsh world we live in where people believe that hugs should be rationed. Imagine the impact restriction of loving touch in infancy (and beyond) has had? We need to break this cycle of touch starvation, not perpetuate it. So, hold your baby while they cry, hold them when they’re happy. Hold them while they sleep, hold them when they wake. Hold them while you rest, hold them when you’re busy and think you have ‘more important things to do’. Never, ever be afraid to hold them ‘too much’; it just isn’t possible, neither is it a ‘bad habit’, or ‘ a sleep prop’. By holding your baby, as much as you and they want, you are taking one small step towards changing the world for the better - and what an important job that is! @neurochildhq

09.01.2022 Lots of new parents find that when their baby is born they are at first still quite sleepy. They may feed fairly frequently but immediately fall back to sleep. ...They may well be much more content to lie in their crib. Many people think that this is because they are recovering from the stress of being born and are tired out. Then comes the second night perhaps for many your first night at home and suddenly your baby starts crying lots, feeding lots and generally won’t be put down. This is the point many new parents freak out wondering what on earth they have done and worrying it will always be like this - whilst panicking about how to soothe their baby. Think of this from your baby’s perspective. Until now they have been inside you snug, warm and with an unlimited supply of food on tap. Then birth happened with a load of hormones and being squeezed before they were born into a big, bright and noisy world. After a brief phase of being a bit stunned and exhausted, they suddenly realise that constant source of everything they need has disappeared and well, they are not overly happy about that. Breastfeeding lots and lots on that second night is not necessarily a sign that something is wrong. Once your baby is born it is their job to kickstart your milk supply. The more they feed, the more milk you start to produce so this sudden very frequent feeding is most likely a result of that. They are not starving they have laid down fat during pregnancy to manage the change from the first milk you produce to having a full milk supply. Do make sure they are latched on comfortably and clearly feeding, and always check with your health professional if you are worried, but more frequent feeding in itself is very normal on this night and will be a pattern you will see emerge later when your baby has growth spurts and is trying to stimulate your milk supply. The very best thing you can do to manage the second night is to recognise that this is about them needing to reclaim that warmth and comfort and that holding them and keeping them close will reassure them that you are there. Hold them close to you so they can feel your heartbeat. Strip off and have some skin to skin with them (covering them with a light blanket unless it’s really warm). If you’re breastfeeding, feed them as often as they want breastfeeding is of course about them getting milk but it’s also about them increasing milk supply and finding comfort. Talk to your baby in a reassuring voice they will be able to recognise it as they were so used to hearing it when you were pregnant (babies can hear from around 20 weeks of pregnancy). Another tip is to take off any mittens you have put on them let them feel you or get them in their mouth the contact seems to soothe them. Remember this will not last forever! A good link here from LLL GB on checking breastfeeding is going well https://www.laleche.org.uk/signs-effective-feeding-early-da

07.01.2022 Love these old photos. How did mum manage us 3 little girls and our little brother ( who was probably servicing his toy car while this photo was taken). I can’t imagine how our very clever artist grandmother went from living and studying in Vienna in the 1920s to being a mother and wife on a farm in the Wheatbelt! That’s the way you raise good old Aussie battlers I suppose.

04.01.2022 Good quick read

04.01.2022 Less attention, causes less tension!

03.01.2022 https://www.cathygarbin.com/babies-and-their-weight/

03.01.2022 https://www.cathygarbin.com/a-new-baby-is-family-time/

03.01.2022 A beautiful night with Katy Steele at the Quarry.

01.01.2022 A better photo of the best Christmas tree of all time. Soon to be razed to the ground. When will we learn??

01.01.2022 Debbie and Cathy taking care of the babies on the back verandah on the farm. Hey we are still doing this 60 years later!