If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!According to the renowned William Sears, M.D. and Martha Sears, R.N., there is a very good argument to support co-sleeping, or sleeping with your baby.
The pair prefer the term “shared sleep” when it comes to parents and babies sharing [...]
Tags: Attachment Parenting, co-sleeping, Dr. McKenna, Dr. Sears, shared sleep
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All of my children have had “security blankets”: that favorite blanket they absolutely can’t live without or get to sleep without.
My third daughter loved her “blankie” so much that she gave it a name. She carried it everywhere for years until it was threadbare and worn. After several years, I discovered that “blankie” [...]
Tags: Attachment Parenting, blanket, books, security blanket
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I remember when I was a new mom and I thought I knew it all. I’d read every bit of expert information regarding the raising of my baby as I could get my hands on, and by all accounts my daughter was thriving and brilliant and wonderful. I must have been doing something [...]
Tags: Attachment Parenting, discipline, experts, infants, Parenting
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Dr. Sears’ book, The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know about Your Baby from Birth to Age Two, is my new parenting bible. It’s 740+ pages covers everything from feeding and nutrition to health concerns and remedies, to baby’s stages, to parenting the colicky baby, to baby-wearing and contemporary parenting, to the transition from [...]
Tags: Attachment Parenting, baby sling, baby-wearing
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Yesterday, my toddler and I were invited to a party - a chicken pox party.
Have you heard of chicken pox parties? The parents of a child who has caught chickenpox invite his or her friends to their home to catch the disease, believing it’s best for a child to have the disease early and “get [...]
Tags: Attachment Parenting, chicken pox, vaccines
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Aaah, the many illusions I had before I became a mother. One of them was that the baby would arrive, and would seamlessly transition her from bassinet, to crib, to toddler bed. Hubby and I would preserve the sanctity of our bedroom, and teach her independence by having her sleep in her own [...]
Tags: Attachment Parenting, crib, ferberizing, sleep
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When I first started venturing out of the house after having my daughter, I saw mothers carrying their babies in slings.
They told me, “It’s so much easier than lugging around a heavy car seat.”
“You don’t even need a stroller.”
I wasn’t convinced. I strapped my daughter into her car seat before we got into the car, [...]
Tags: Attachment Parenting, Baby, slings, toddler
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