TwoStones Midwifery / The Traveling Midwife

05/07/2026

12/14/2025

Researchers have found that babies who sleep close to a parent receive, on average, 13,000 additional hours of comforting touch by the age of three. Far from creating “bad habits,” this extra physical contact plays a powerful role in regulating a baby’s nervous system. Touch helps stabilize heart rate, calm stress responses, and support more consistent sleep patterns. In these early years, a baby’s brain is wiring itself through experience, and close contact provides a steady stream of signals that the world is safe.

This sense of safety boosts immunity, strengthens emotional resilience, and supports healthier brain development. When a baby feels protected, cortisol levels drop and neural circuits responsible for learning, memory, and emotional balance strengthen. Over time, this consistent closeness builds what psychologists call secure attachment, a foundation linked to better confidence, social skills, stress management, and relationship stability well into adulthood.

Sleeping close isn’t about dependency. It is about connection. Babies rely on cues from a caregiver’s warmth, heartbeat, breath, and presence to regulate their own still developing systems. These early moments of touch create deep biological benefits that last long after childhood. What looks simple — holding, soothing, keeping a child nearby is actually shaping the architecture of the growing brain and giving a child the emotional tools needed for a healthier, more secure life.

11/23/2025

While a small percentage of women do not feel pain from contractions the vast majority of women will feel pain, ‘If you’re not prepared for pain, you are not prepared for labor’ FULL STOP !

10/23/2025

This episode!!!

10/03/2025

Baby girl decided to ‘AWAKEN THE DAWN’

09/08/2025

Treasure Valley mamas, there is a family soon to be in need.
DM me or Family Tree Midwifery, Inc. if you have milk to donate.

05/31/2025