The Go Slow Baby elephant

Go Slow Baby

A free, living book for new parents.

From the months before baby arrives to the first year, gathering the world's best slow-parenting wisdom: outdoors, instinctual, unhurried.


The book I'm building
for every new family

By Joanne

For my mother. Midwife. Trailblazer.

She believed every baby deserved a slow start. Time to prepare before they arrive. Time to simply be together once they're here.

So we gathered the best go-slow wisdom from parents everywhere into one free book. It keeps growing, shaped by families like yours.

Read it. Add your story. Help every newborn start slow.


What we're building

Part One

The Book

A free, ever-growing resource built with expecting and new parents everywhere, gathering instinctual, outdoors wisdom from around the world. Free forever and always growing.

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Part Two

The Calculator

An honest baby-money planner, most useful before the registry fills up. You need far less than the industry tells you, and less stuff means more room for time outside and time together.

Try the calculator →

Part Three

Little Songs

Joanne's lullabies and meditations, sung and spoken for her own family. A new one of each arrives every week. $7 a month, cancel any time, and it keeps the Book free.

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The book is yours, free

  • Short chapters, made for one-handed reading. Five minutes at a time is plenty.
  • Honest talk about money, so you spend less and worry less.
  • Slow, steady ways to bond with your baby. Simply you and them, at your own pace.
  • It's a living book. I keep adding to it, and every new edition comes to you too.

Gentle emails from me, and you can leave any time.

Rather just read it now? Download the book

Be part of the book

Have a go-slow memory or a piece of advice? Share it here. I'd love for it to become part of the next edition.

Gentle emails from me, and you can leave any time.