Comments on: Our journey into Attachment Parenting.

By: Lyndsey Allen

Lyndsey Allen — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:44:04 +0000

What a lovely article! I too stumbled into attatchment parenting and came across Dr Sears book quite by accident. It was the only one on baby sleep in our tiny local library that wasn’t the ‘cry it out’ method. It made me re-think motherhood and trust my instincts more. Having your baby close and following her lead has worked brilliantly for us. We now have a happy confident 13month old who still is high needs but sleeps much better (even if not through the night yet).

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:54:04 +0000

What a beautifully written piece and big hugs to you and Molly for doing so well! My LO was born 7 weeks early and was 2lb 8oz, she spent the first month of her life in an incubator and I felt so lost not being able to have her with me. Everything is fine now and we loosely follow our own AP style, whatever makes her happy I’m fine with. xx

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:45:41 +0000

Congratulations on the arrival of Molly!
I really identified with your story. I have 2 sons, the eldest is now 3 and I did a lot of AP style with him - part co-sleeping, breastfeeding until he naturally weaned but didn’t use a sling. I now have a 7 month old baby boy, he too was very poorly following his birth, he needed an operation when he was just 2 weeks old and I can identify with your feelings about seeing your baby in an incubator. It was my natural instinct to hold him close, keep him with me - he had reflux and the most comfortable position for him was upright, snuggled up to me in the moby sling. We co-sleep full time with him, I wear him in a mei tai or the moby a lot of the time, he breastfeeds on demand, its natural and we’re 100% happier for it.
Lovely article.