Issue 57 - The Natural Parent Magazine

Wishing all of our wonderful Natural Parent Magazine readers a Happy New Year! We hope you had a fabulous holiday season and made some magical memories with your families and friends over the Christmas and New Year period. This edition's front cover features an illustration by Deganit Tzabari Karnieli of the Bibas family, an Israeli family who were attacked and taken captive from their home community on October 7th 2023. The image depicts mother Shiri, and her two little boys, Ariel and Kfir. In our first issue of 2025, Genevieve Simperingham writes about parenting in the face of tragedy or threats and how, as parents, "we are faced with the difficult task of filtering the world's often harsh realities from our children, while trying to somehow strike a balance between overprotection and overexposure". We feature Helen Bartrom's latest 'positive birth story'. Kiki shares the story of her powerful journey to a successful HBAC (home birth after 2 caesar...