Attachment Parenting

What is Attachment parenting? Well there are entire books written on the subject but it is really much more simple than many people make it out to be, essentially it is Parenting with your instincts. You wear your baby as often as possible after they are born, since they go from being carried around 24 hours a day, seven days a week for 9 months and then they are born and they are all of a sudden supposed to be ok with only being carried a few hours a day. Well I don't know about you all, but I would be pissed off if I lost that connection to my mom. Even holding a baby for 12 hours a day is half as much contact that the baby is used to. You have to breastfeed as long as the baby wants or needs for not only nutritional value but for emotional connection that it offers to a baby and its mother. Attachment parenting is the practice of putting the bond between family and baby before conveniences of modern parenting. Attachment parenting is co-sleeping or bed sharing. Its not the easiest but it is worth the pain that it sometimes causes to wake and sleep in a family nest rather than alone in a cage ( crib)