Natural Parenting treats technology with caution and emphasizes the need for parents to make fully informed decisions, and not to just go along with U.S. cultural norms simply because everyone else is doing it. Natural Parenting implies a healthy distrust of the average medical practice. Adherents of Natural Parenting may include some kooks and quacks, but mostly they are just concerned parents trying to do the best thing for their child. At birth there should be no separation of mother and baby. Breastfeeding should be initiated within the first hour.
Children know when they are ready to wean.
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