Becoming a Family

Becoming a Family explores the first three intense and joyful years of the family journey.Raising children is a lifelong journey and is never what you imagine it to be. It is also a profound personal journey: parents need to trust their own inner sense as a guide for health and truth. After all, mothers and fathers have been raising children successfully long before childcare experts came along!Babies arrive 'trailing clouds of glory', creating a profound spiritual and human presence. Margaret Shaw explores how babies can be welcomed onto this earth with warmth, love, insight, joy, rhythm, structure and sensitive care. This helps lay healthy physical, psychological and spiritual foundations for life. The book follows the incarnating process of the child, starting before conception through the first three years of the family up to the third birthday.