attachment parenting

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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: 05-09-2006
Sat, 08-19-2006 - 9:45am
No one has said that but you.
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Registered: 07-26-2006
Sat, 08-19-2006 - 9:45am
Why would you assume anything about our pediatrician? I nursed plain and simple. Nursing came quite easy for me, exceot for the first 3 months of yeast and infection with my first. I had no issues with milk. I could nurse immediately after birth. However I really don't care what someone tells me about nursing. I fed my children via nursing. If I had used formula I certainly wouldn't have given my child a bottle to calm them down. I wanted my children to know that daddy could do the same things mommy could when they were scared, cranky or upset. Again I am not criticizing someone that nurses their child. They can do as they please. However I wasn't doing that.
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Registered: 06-09-2006
Sat, 08-19-2006 - 9:49am
Don't you know that the boobs are God's Ultimate Creation of Oxytocin Releasers and is the answer to world peace?
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Registered: 06-09-2006
Sat, 08-19-2006 - 9:50am
I think it's a case of Mom as Martyr complex. Only Mom will do.
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Registered: 06-09-2006
Sat, 08-19-2006 - 9:53am
It was posted that pro FF websites have no scientific data to back up that FF is superior to BF, so in that case, no pro-FF links will be accepted.
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Registered: 11-11-2005
Sat, 08-19-2006 - 10:24am

No, try reading what I said.

Websites with medical and scientific basis are reliable, especially when said sites have the supporting medical and scientific info cited to in an easy to find format.

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Registered: 11-11-2005
Sat, 08-19-2006 - 10:26am

Yes. It is on the same sites that have aleady been linked, with citations added to boot.

But since you admit you never did any research on the issue before deciding not to bf, why are you so insistent on assuming it is not the case?

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Registered: 06-09-2006
Sat, 08-19-2006 - 10:48am
Absolutely. But, does medical and scientific evidence claim that BF is better than FF?
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Registered: 06-09-2006
Sat, 08-19-2006 - 10:51am

I had already answered this post with a follow up that I had found the info.

I never insisted that it wasn't the case. Please provide a link to that.

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Registered: 11-11-2005
Sat, 08-19-2006 - 10:53am
yes

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