This post is part of the 2010 API Principles of Parenting blog carnival, a series of monthly parenting blog carnivals, hosted by API Speaks. Learn more about attachment parenting by visiting the API website.
When I first got pregnant six years ago, the first thing I wanted to buy was What To Expect When You’re Expecting. [...]
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Welcome to the February Carnival of Natural Parenting: Love and partners!
This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month we’re writing about how a co-parent has or has not supported us in our dedication to natural parenting. Please read to the [...]
Welcome to the January Carnival of Natural Parenting: Parenting resolutions!
This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month we’re writing about how we want to parent differently — or the same — in the New Year. Please read to the end [...]
My toddler likes to pull on and look down my shirt from time to time. She likes to make sure her milkies are still there, I guess. This weekend, during a rare cuddle with the whole family in bed, was no exception. She took the blankets and pulled them back and pulled on my [...]
People spend New Year’s Eve reflecting on their past year. What do they remember most? How do they remember it? As an adult, most of my memories are visual and emotional, the emotions coming from sights and sounds – a flurry of colour, music, shouting, crying, laughing. But when I look back on my childhood [...]
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Thanks to the press for yet another reason to jump to the defense of parents who sleep with their infants. Recently, the news reported that a mother, who was flying from Washington D.C. to Kuwait, fell asleep nursing her four week old infant and accidentally suffocated her. Of course the words “breastfeeding” and “suffocates infant” [...]
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