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Darcia Narvaez, PhD

Professor of Psychology Emerita

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Breastfeeding Resources

Check out our YouTube video on Infant Nutrition

References for YouTube Video PDF

Breastfeeding as Companionship: An Ancient Tradition

Breast Milk Keeps Time and May Set Baby’s Clock

Breastfeeding’s Importance—What Science Tells Us

Breastfeeding in the USA—A Little History

5 Things You Thought You Knew About Breastfeeding

The TREMENDOUS Benefits of Doing What is Normal: Breastfeeding

Stand Up For Breastfeeding

Talk About Breastfeeding With Your Family, Friends and Doctor

Brochure for Medical Professionals:

Facts about Feeding Babies (for medical professionals)  Brochure  References

More Resources

St. Joseph County Breastfeeding Coalition (has resources)

La Leche League

Feeding  Your Baby: What you and your family need to know    References

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  • Who Will Be Our Jane Goodall?
    Editor’s Note: Below is an excerpt from Amy Warren’s new article featured in Resurgence & Ecologist’s Radical Hope special issue (Issue 355 • March/April 2026). You can read more about Kindred’s tribute to Jane Goodall, who passed earlier this year, here. Learn more about Darcia Narvaez and the Evolved Nest here.  Become a Nesting Ambassador and […]
  • Men Nurture Babies Too
    There is a lot of focus on the importance of mothers nurturing babies to promote attachment and wellbeing. But our heritage is broader than mother-child alone (e.g., Morelli et al., 2017). Around 13 million calories are needed to raise a human child until their late teens when they can produce as much as they consume. […]
  • Cathy Myers on Bringing to Life the Evolved Nest
    In this Nesting Ambassador Program’s Praxis Gathering, Cathy Myers of the venerable nonprofit, Family and Home Network, shares her four decades of public policy education and advocacy for family leave and childcare. As a Certified Nesting Ambassador, Cathy guides us through potential and needed shifts in cultural norms and public policy based on the science […]
  • Dispelling Cry-It-Out Sleep Training Myths and What to Do Instead: A New Academic Anthology
    Darcia Narvaez, PhD, Kindred World’s president, and Mary Tarsha, KW board member, have contributed a chapter to the forthcoming book, Dispelling Cry-It-Out Sleep Training Myths and What to Do Instead. Narvaez’s and Tarsha’s chapter is entitled, The Evolved Nest: Sleep Training Violates Humanity’s Baselines for Child Raising. Contributing editors to the book include: Jennifer G. Rosier, […]
  • All Our Relations – The Gratitude Deck by Four Arrows
    Release date March 10, 2026 Get Your All Our Relations Gratitude Deck   From Indigenous author, scholar, and activist Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa)—cultivate your own earth-based gratitude practice with this 52-card oracle deck. For readers of Robin Wall Kimmerer, Rae Diamond, Jessica Hernandez, and Sherri Mitchell All Our Relations, a 52-card oracle deck, guides readers […]
  • Home and Belonging in a More-than-Human World
    Through a series of online conversations, Living One brings speakers from around the world to address core questions facing society today. Each gathering brings together thinkers and practitioner to explore critical ethical, ecological, and spiritual questions rooted in lived experience. Instead of abstract debate, Living One is grounded dialogue – conversations that integrate body, story, and […]
  • Nature Connection for Babies
    Nature Connection Guide and father, Arnaud Gagne, shares his stories of introducing his infant son to Nature while bonding as a father. As a Nesting Ambassador, Arnaud integrates the science of the Evolved Nest with his training as a deep nature connection mentor. (Become a Nesting Ambassador at www.NestedWorld.org.) In this video, Arnaud shares with […]
  • Pam Leo on Bringing to Life the Evolved Nest
    In this informal discussion, Pam Leo Talks with this year’s Nesting Ambassador cohort members about Bringing to Life the Evolved Nest. You probably have your own questions about how our desire to re-village our world is done by elders and activists who have worked in the field for decades. Learn more about Pam and read […]
  • Human Pasts, Global Futures: Trauma or Wellness? A Lecture by Darcia Narvaez, PhD
    This lecture is the first in the Nested World Fall 2025 Lecture Series by Darcia Narvaez, PhD. This is the first lecture in the Certified Nesting Ambassador Program that launched in January 2026.   Learn more about the Nesting Ambassador Program at www.NestedWorld.org.  Learn more about our Communal Evolved Nest in the Nested World Learning […]
  • The Real Scandal Isn’t Epstein. It’s Us.
    Editor’s Note: This post comes with a trigger warning to sensitive readers. A list of resources for what to do next appears at the end.   It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair   When I was a child of about […]

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  • Unspoken Forms of Communication
  • Annoying Babies
  • Children Need To Be Fed, Physically and Psychologically
  • The Secrets of Raising Infants
  • Unspoken Forms of Communication
  • Learn to Stop Thinking and Start Being
  • John Bowlby and the Need for Attachment
  • Want a Better Birth? Go Back to the Basics
  • ACES and the Psychology of Chandler from "Friends"
  • Incorporating Play Into The Classroom

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Darcia Narvaez 

Professor of Psychology Emerita

Department of Psychology 

University of Notre Dame

390 Corbett Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556

Email: dnarvaez@nd.edu

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