attachment parenting

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Registered: 02-19-2004
attachment parenting
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Mon, 08-14-2006 - 3:17pm

A woman I know (I used to work with her dh) practices "attachment parenting". Here is a definition (for those who don't know what it is):

"Attachment Parenting includes respecting your child's needs, feeding on demand, and answering your baby's cries. Other parts of Attachment Parenting include co-sleeping, nursing on demand, sling or other baby carrier wearing, and cloth diapering. Not all Attachment Parents practice all of the above, but never the less love the idea of Attachment Parenting and comforting their children.

Attachment parenting uses mild discipline methods and avoids all physical or emotional punishment, such as inflicting shame on a child for inappropriate behavior. Children are encouraged and allowed to sleep with their parents, and you treat your bed as the family bed. Meeting your child's needs according to the child's time frame during the early years of development is an essential part of attachment parenting. Children will be allowed to grow and learn at their own pace and not according to standard time frames."

What do you all think of attachment parenting?

I don't see attachment parenting as something a WOH parent could do, or could they? What do u think?

I am also curious to see if SAHPs vs/ WOHPs will have different opionions on this topic.

If anyone here practices attachment parenting - was your decision to do so closely linked with your decision to be a SAHP?

josee

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 08-18-2006 - 3:06pm

What makes someone a militant BFing woman in your mind? Someone who points out the proven benefits of breastmilk over formula on a debate board where that topic is being discussed?

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Registered: 11-11-2005
Fri, 08-18-2006 - 3:08pm

"So, a mother who eats a diet of junk food, her milk is more healthy than formula?"

Yes.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 08-18-2006 - 3:09pm
Other than taking herbs and using a better pump and pumping more frequently I'm not sure.

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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 08-18-2006 - 3:10pm

I take my hat off to women who breastfeed. It's something I could never do. But, sometimes you get the feeling that pro-BF'ers think that FF'ers are giving their babies poison or something. (And those BF children are the same children who are most likely eating processed foods for dinner and potatoe chips as an after school snack).

I made the best decision for *my* children and that was FF. As I stated in another post, they are very healthy, happy, active children that were never sick as babies except for a couple of sniffles a year. So, in my case, I couldn't have made a better decision.

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Registered: 07-26-2006
Fri, 08-18-2006 - 3:10pm
Like I have said REPEATEDLY. Food DOESN'T matter to OUR family. YOUR family might be different. Does it matter when you invite someone over? Sure it does. You don't tell someone to come over for a steak dinner and then serve cereal. It matters because it would be a LIE not to serve what you said you were going to serve.
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Registered: 07-26-2006
Fri, 08-18-2006 - 3:12pm
I think anyone that thinks a mother is less than another because they chose not to BF is militant. Saying a child doesn't reach his full potential by being FF is just cruel and I am not buying for a minute that isn't a slam at mothers that chose to FF. It really is ridiculous and cruel.
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Registered: 11-11-2005
Fri, 08-18-2006 - 3:13pm

Only if she has a baby with a rare food allergy. If she does, then she need only eliminate that allergic food from her diet.

Of course, if the baby has an allergy to something like dairy or soy, formula would also make the baby sick. In which case, BM is really the best solution to the problem anyway.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 08-18-2006 - 3:15pm
Someone who taps into mommy guilt by repeating how substandard formula feeding is.

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Registered: 12-06-2004
Fri, 08-18-2006 - 3:15pm
Amen!

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Registered: 11-11-2005
Fri, 08-18-2006 - 3:15pm
This is very common information. Surely if you had done any research on bf versus ff before you chose to feed your baby formula, you would have found this out quite easily. Try the WHO, the AAP, LLL, etc.

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