Natural Nursery Blog

We are delighted to announce that our new Ebay webshop is up and running at Natural Nursery Ebay Shop.

We have a beautiful new design for the webshop and hope to encourage more of the millions of Ebay users to think about environmental and ethical impact of the parenting decisions that they make.

Breastbottle® nursers are the ideal solution for working mums who want to continue breast-feeding. The patented bubble-free design and low-flow adjustable nipple minimise confusion between breast and bottle. Breastbottle nursers are ideal for feeding breast milk.

• Soft and comforting.
• Designed to be more like breast-feeding than any other bottle.
• Bubble-free delivery to minimize related colic.
• Patented Adiri™ nipple offers three flow rates.
• Readily accepted by most babies.
• Can simulate let-down.
• Ideal for switching between bottle and breast.
• Capacity based on maximum breast supply.
• Easily filled without spills.
• No bottle brush required.
• Dishwasher safe, on top rack.
• Childproof closure system.

After months of trying and spending a fortune on teats and bottles this was a life saver. My son refused all bottles and I was amazed that he took the nurser first time without any fuss. It was a relief as I am going back to work soon and obviously needed him to be on a bottle so thank you very much! Ruth G.

You can find out more about the Nurser from the manufacturer’s website or purchase it from The Natural Nursery.

Potty training can be natural, easy, and peaceful. The first step is to know the facts.

• The perfect age to begin potty training is different for every child. Your child’s best starting age could be anywhere from eighteen to thirty-two months. Pre-potty training preparation can begin when a child is as young as ten months.
• You can begin training at any age, but your child’s biology, skills, and readiness will determine when he can take over his own toileting.
• Teaching your child how to use the toilet can, and should, be as natural as teaching him to build a block tower or use a spoon.
• No matter the age that toilet training begins, most children become physically capable of independent toileting between ages two and a half and four.
• It takes three to twelve months from the start of training to daytime toilet independence. The more readiness skills that a child possesses, the quicker the process will be.
• The age that a child masters toileting has absolutely no correlation to future abilities or intelligence.
• There isn’t only one right way to potty train – any approach you use can work - if you are pleasant, positive and patient.
• Nighttime dryness is achieved only when a child’s physiology supports this–you can’t rush it.
• A parent’s readiness to train is just as important as a child’s readiness to learn.
• Potty training need not be expensive. A potty chair, a dozen pairs of training pants and a relaxed and pleasant attitude are all that you really need. Anything else is truly optional.
• Most toddlers urinate four to eight times each day, usually about every two hours or so.
• Most toddlers have one or two bowel movements each day, some have three, and others skip a day or two in between movements. In general, each child has a regular pattern.
• More than 80 percent of children experience setbacks in toilet training. This means that what we call “setbacks” are really just the usual path to mastery of toileting.
• Ninety-eight percent of children are completely daytime independent by age four.

This article is an excerpt from The No-Cry Potty Training Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Child Say Good-Bye to Diapers by Elizabeth Pantley. (McGraw-Hill, 2006)

More natural parenting articles can be found on the Natural Nursery website: www.naturalnursery.co.uk