Do you AP?
Early in my pregnancy I drowned myself in books. Lots and lots of them. Lots and lots more of them. I loitered in libraries, bookstores, brought home stacks of parenting books and devoured them all. My belly became a resting place for heavy bible-like parenting books. After 7 months of this, I realized one thing: I want to practice attachment parenting.
Of course, pretty much the minute he was born I was inundated with advice from all sides - the woman who planned my baby shower; my sister-in-law; my momma; my aunt (who has no children of her own). Pretty much all they've told me are against what I want to do - my aunt looked appalled when I told her I was breastfeeding, even worse when I told her we were co-sleeping. My sister-in-law told me that I don't have to pick him up every time he cries. My momma (Stu's mama) told me that sometimes it's ok to let him cry.
He's now almost four months old. He's happy and alert most of the time. When he's happy he's really happy, and when he needs something, you BETCHA he's loud and angry - you can hear him down the hall. I wear him in a sling during his daytime naps and when he gets crabby during the day. He's breastfed, we co-sleep (that's how I get any sleep at all - he wakes up every hour after his first 4 hour stretch) and he's cloth diapered at home. He's very strong for his "age" - he has perfect head control and he can sit up assisted only by his own arms.
And egad, is he LOUD.
yess.. i do AP...
for wat is ur AP measn by the way.. :P
for us is more in Attitude Problem.. wahahaha :P
Posted by: - AP - cheehow | May 21, 2007 11:02 AM