Friday, October 26, 2012

Giveaway: Together We Sleep ~ Cosleeping Book from Intuition Physician - $34 ARV {11.25; Worldwide}


This is a joint giveaway between Natural Parents Network and many other natural parenting sites. You may enter for all of the giveaways at one site only. Please find the section marked "Win it!" for the mandatory entry and optional bonus entries.
Natural Parents Network Holiday Gift Guide

Welcome to the Natural Parents Network Holiday Gift Guide!

Natural Parents Network, Mommying My Way, and 24 other natural parenting bloggers are giving away 89 items perfect for gifting for the holidays as part of the Natural Parents Network Holiday Gift Guide. The combined total value of all of the items is $2,550. Have you finished your holiday shopping? The NPN Holiday Gift Guide is a great opportunity to complete your gift-giving purchases for family and friends, while supporting many naturally-minded small businesses. The companies who have provided items for giveaway are almost exclusively made up of small businesses or work-at-home families. Please stop back to enter the giveaway. The Rafflecopter entry system will be live November 1 on this post (and on every post participating in the Gift Guide). Please visit some of the other review posts listed below and read about the fabulous companies offering giveaways in the Natural Parents Network Holiday Gift Guide.
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Please continue reading to learn more about Intuition Physician, which is offering our readers a giveaway of their latest cosleeping book, Together We Sleep, as well as Jake, A Guinea Pig Finds Adventure, a value of $34.

Laura Koniver, the person behind the name "Intuition Physician" is not just a doctor, she is a mother, and one whose motherhood completely changed her world. 

On her website, she says, "Here I was used to dealing all day and night with these lovely, amazing, glowing souls that were my children… and then going in to see a patient as a 2-dimensional problem to solve. It sickened me on a deep level, to finally realize that each and every person on earth is as precious and valuable and eternal as my very own children, but then to just treat them medically on the surface."

 Laura has found great success in combining her passion for the souls of people with her interest and talents in art and describes herself as a happy blur between an artist, a physician, a mother, and a soul. 

Photo Credit: Intuition Physician

About Together We Sleep

As Dr. Laura Koniver emphasizes throughout her website, making connections with children is of utmost importance. She wrote and illustrated this book to offer parents an opportunity to connect with their children at bedtime by reading a book about bedtime connections.

This book beautifully illustrates and describes the sleeping habits of animals throughout nature and uses wonderful vocabulary to do so (did you know that a group of seals is called a rookery?!). After several pages of animals sleeping, the book segues into how people throughout the world sleep. Many different cultures and living arrangements are shown, all of them with families sharing sleep together.

Not only did the book come beautifully wrapped in my mailbox, once opened, the beauty continued. The soothing rhythm of the story and the simple, yet colorful pictures are quite enjoyable.


The text offers many great discussion points and learning opportunities for small children; whether it be about different animals and where and how they live, or families of different cultures and where and how they live. The book is a great size for little hands too, and printed on sturdy paper that seems less likely to tear than some other children's books we have at home. The book is somewhat long, (fifty pages!) but each page has only a short line of text and is completely full of beautiful illustrations. The only drawback (if I were pressed to find one) is near the end of the story where it reads, "We live in homes." I can't help but assume that some of the book's readers do not live in homes, but live in some of the other dwellings described (apartments, RVs, etc.). It is something that can easily be discussed by the adult reading the story to the child, and maybe the author is meaning to imply that wherever a family lives, it is considered a "home."
 
All in all, this book is a wonderful addition to our collection. I try my best to only include children's books that jive with our parenting style and have been known to get rid of books that discuss or demonstrate parenting methods with which we disagree. This book is right up our alley and is describes a concept my son can easily understand.

    BUY IT!

    You can purchase your own copy of Together We Sleep at Intuition Physician for $17 plus shipping. Laura also sells many other colorful, insightful children's books (see the WIN IT! section for info on another book!), artwork, private consultations and more. Her site is very informative and definitely worth perusing!

    WIN IT!

    For your own chance to win a a copy of Together We Sleep  from Intuition Physician, enter by leaving a comment and using our Rafflecopter system below. (Rafflecopter will be live November 1-25).

    Intuition Physician is also throwing another book into the winner's prize package! Jake, A Guinea Pig Finds Adventure is a longer, but equally wonderfully illustrated book written as a tool to help parents teach their children that their circumstances can be experienced differently depending on the perspective they take toward them.

     The winner will receive a copy of Together We Sleep and a copy of Jake, A Guinea Pig Finds Adventure (a 40 page paperback picture book about joy, the law of attraction, and the art of allowing), a $34 value!  
    Contest is open WORLDWIDE.

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    Leave a valid email address so we can contact you if you win. Email addresses in Rafflecopter are not made publicly visible. Please leave the same valid email address in your mandatory comment so we can verify entries. This is part of a larger giveaway hosted by Natural Parents Network. You may enter the whole giveaway at one site only, and we'll be recording IP addresses to ensure that there are no duplicate entries. That said, please do visit and enjoy all of the participating sites! Please note that each entrant can win only one prize, and NPN will be randomly assigning prizes to the winners. One of the giveaway questions asks which are your top five prizes so we can try to match winners to their preferences. BONUS ENTRIES: See the Rafflecopter entry system for bonus entries to increase your chance of winning after completing the mandatory entry. All bonus entries are entered directly into Rafflecopter. Give it a try, and email sponsorship {at} naturalparentsnetwork.com or leave a comment if you have any questions!
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    Thank you for your interest in the Natural Parents Network Gift Guide! We invite you to read the reviews of other participating bloggers and return to enter the giveaway between November 1 and 25. Many of the giveaway items are open worldwide! Here are the participating sites and companies. (Reviews go live between October 25 and October 31, and all links will be live by November 1.) We’ve included any coupon codes the companies have offered so you can get your holiday shopping under way! Publishing on Thursday, October 25, 2012
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