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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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      Dear Kindred, Why is there ongoing, intensifying cultural debate around the potential and use of AI? Many online “discussions” are driven by fear-mongering confusion easily resolved by Joseph Chilton Pearce’s forty-plus years of synthesized science of human consciousness. In his many seminal works, Joe clearly illustrated the difference between intelligence and intellect. “On a […]
  • Riane Eisler on Partnership Leadership vs. Domination: An Interview
    How does Riane Eisler’s partnership model of leadership transform our understanding of politics, economics, and social change in an age of trauma and technological upheaval?
  • Honoring the Work of Helena Norberg-Hodge: Happy 80th Birthday!
    Helena Norberg-Hodge’s 80th birthday is an occasion to honor a lifetime – 50 years –  of devotion to living, local, life-centered cultures—the very ground that Kindred World and the Evolved Nest are working to protect and restore in families and communities today. Her work reminds us that healthy humans emerge from healthy cultures, and healthy […]
  • All Our Relations – The Gratitude Deck by Four Arrows
    Pre-order your Gratitude Deck. Release date March 10, 2026 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 through a nature-based gratitude […]
  • The New Sleep Training Paper Everyone’s Talking About (And Why It Changes Absolutely Nothing)
    My inbox exploded last month. I was tucked away in the mountains, deep in book-writing mode. Snow-dusted peaks outside my window. Fall leaves drifting down. The kind of quiet I’d been craving to finally write the chapters that have been living in my bones for years. Chapters about the magic of motherhood. The origins of […]
  • Re-Spiriting Dispirited Humanity
    Evolved nestedness in early life has the perfume of enchantment. Multiple nurturers accompany baby, providing ongoing support as needed with evolved nest practices that represent love in action for our species. Mothers are fully supported. Joyful presence accompanies baby, nearly always in arms. Comforting is instantaneous. Nestedness shapes a biology of love and enchantment with […]
  • Parents, Know Your Baby’s Baselines!
    It’s easy not to know how to treat a baby when you have no species-normal baselines. So you ping-pong between conflicting advice. There is no need to do that. We have the baselines. Researchers (some) learned the hard way how important baselines are for raising the young of other species (e.g., it is abnormal for […]
  • My Path to the Evolved Nest – By Catherine Myers
    In the mid-1980s, when I first volunteered with Mothers at Home (the original name of our organization), we were often challenged: “Why does it matter if you’re home? Children do just fine in child care. Responding to questions like this, we focused on simple statements such as: “I think this is best for my children” […]
  • The Nested World Film Launches: Integrating the Trilogy and Its Messages
      In the Nested World film below, Darcia Narvaez introduces and expands on the messages of the trilogy of films created by the Evolved Nest Initiative over the past three years. The footage of Darcia introducing and exploring the films was shot on the beautiful campus at the University of Notre Dame in fall 2024. […]
  • Nested World and Nesting Ambassador Program Launches
    Kindred World is delighted to announce the launch of the Nested World Initiative and its long-anticipated Nesting Ambassador Program. . The Nested World website and ambassador program were launched on Kindred’s nonprofit partner, the Maternal Gift Economy’s, 88th Salon on November 15, 2025. A video presentation by Lisa Reagan, Kindred World founder, and Darcia Narvaez, […]

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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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