interested in attachment parenting

Re: interested in attachment parenting

• chizekgeena

  May 2013

  Attachment parenting to me is responding to my daughter's needs and reading her cues. I do not "train" my daughter. I parent her using my natural instincts. I believe babies know what they need and if parents were to just "listen" to their babies then parenting would be much easier for both the parent and the child. My daughter has showed from day 1 that she enjoys sleeping with us (although this is starting to change) so we have co slept with her. If she showed otherwise then I would've let her sleep on her own. We nurse on demand and I am going to let her decide when she wants to wean herself. Now that she is on solids, I encourage her to try different foods and I give her our food. I only feed her organic foods and I use natural products on her. We cloth diaper most of the time but when we aren't wearing cloths we use natural chemical free diapers. Babies come out perfect and pure and I intend to keep her that way by not polluting her system with harmful chemicals. She isn't allowed to watch tv either. Thats about all! I honestly believe its a much easier way to parent your child then by having strict schedules and training them.
  

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• chizekgeena

  May 2013

  I just think people put so much stress into sleep training their child or getting their child to feed at so and so hours that they drive themselves insane! I was there once and as soon as I started doing what I felt was more natural for my child she started adapting and now I honestly enjoy parenting. We started off by taking naps in her carrier then slowly but surely she began to enjoy sleeping on her own. By 7 months she created her own napping schedule and rarely fusses when I put her down. It's the waking up part that she hates haha.

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• salt78 member

  May 2013

  chizekgeena:

  I just think people put so much stress into sleep training their child or getting their child to feed at so and so hours that they drive themselves insane!

  I've also seen people go insane from having a child that never sleeps. Most of the people that I know who sleep trained did so because they were at the end of their rope. Methods like No Cry Sleep Solution have helped a lot of completely exhausted parents. I am one of those lucky parents of a child who STTN very early on with no methods of sleep training necessary, but not everyone has the same experience.
  

  

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• salt78 member

  May 2013

  CabbageCabbage:

  I recommend parenting with love however you choose. You do not have to cosleep or use any certain technique.

  I think this response is perfect. 
  

  

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• cpmich member

  May 2013

  salt78:

  CabbageCabbage:

  I recommend parenting with love however you choose. You do not have to cosleep or use any certain technique.

  I think this response is perfect. 
  

  This.  Just love your child completely.  Parent the child you have, not the child you want or the child someone else tells you that you have.  Follow his or her cues and guide with love and by modeling good behavior.  Do what you instinctively feel is right in close consultation with your husband.  Whether you breastfeed, cloth diaper, cosleep, use day care, etc is no one's business but yours, your husband's, and your child's and does not define the type of parent you are or whether you are a good parent.  Really, just love your child and remember that sometimes the days or nights will be long but that the years are very very short.

  

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