Before I had Alex, I didn’t even know such a thing as “Attachment Parenting” existed. Apparently it’s my parenting style though, as he sleeps in our bed (cuz it’s easier on me), I carry him in a wrap instead of a stroller (cuz it’s easier on me), and I’ll nurse him as long as it works for me (cuz I’m a cheap ass and don’t want to buy formula or whole milk.)
Amy, the Crunchy Domestic Goddess asked if some of us would post a press release for AP International and their new site. I’d planned to say more about this, but given the week we’ve had, we’re just gonna go with the flow … which is a little accidentally AP as well 
Attachment Parenting International (API), a non-profit organization
that promotes parenting practices that create strong, healthy emotional
bonds between children and their parents, has several exciting changes they
would like to announce, including:
- A newly redesigned web site and new logo at Attachment
Parenting.org - Attachment parenting worldwide support
-
href=”http://www.attachmentparenting.org/pep/pep.php”>Parent
Program – a comprehensive series of classes for every stage
and age of child development from infancy through adulthood; - A new book based on API’s Eight Principles of Attachment Parenting by
API co-founders Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson which is expected to be
available this summer; - A series of podcasts, webinars, chats, and forums with API Advisory
Board members and other supporters of AP. Future events are scheduled with
Dr. Bob Sears, Dr. James McKenna, and Kathleen Kendall Tacket. Check out
the
href=”http://www.attachmentparenting.org/events/events.php”>events
for more information.
These are just a few of many exciting things going on at API
I hope you’ll stop by and check it out for yourself.
I’m with you, accidentally AP all the way.
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Ditto. Accidentally attachment parent here too. And I wouldn’t have it any other way at this point. Thanks for the post.
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Thanks. Being as I can’t carry around my 6′2″ kiddo any more, and being far beyond child bearing, I can only read it as an interested party. But it is interesting – and those who use it obviously love it. which is the most important thing of all.
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Who knew? My favorite attachment parenting moment (because I am another of those accidental ones) was when I had brought Zeke to bed to nurse, we all fell asleep, and then Zeke woke up and latched on. I loved that — I didn’t even have to wake up to feed the boy!
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I’ve had my kids surgically attached to my back, does that count for Attachment Parenting?
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I didn’t know much about AP until my daughter was a bit older. I also practiced some AP by accident. If we have another baby, I will definitely be practicing AP
Thanks so much for those links! Heading over now.
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I wish I would have found Blogs like yours when my two were young enough to breastfeed. I’ll be sure to check it out anyway cause I have a few cousins who will be Mothers by next Christmas. Thanks for sharing and doing good things!
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We’re accidentally AP parents as well. Ours will be 3 in two weeks, he sleeps in his own bed now but he slept next us and then with us until about six months ago. Man the grief you get from people when you let your baby sleep with you, but we got the best sleep of any parents I know during that time. And it was no problem transitioning him to his own bed, it took a night or two.
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Does it make me weird that I have no children, am not preg-o and I’ve known about AP for about 7 years? BTW, I absolutely love Dr Sears. He’s awesome. Do you think AP works for cats?
I stumbled or rather had a newborn dragging me into AP after we took the babywise class–talk about a 180 turn
I’m grateful she did and so are her 3 siblings.
I am a proud extended nursing, co-sleeping, bay wearing mama!
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We are total attachment parenters! Keaton is such a confident little boy and can spend time on his own easily becasue of it. YAY for AP!
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thanks so much for posting this, dawn. and LOL – you crack me up.
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