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RE: Why I chose to co-sleep with my child
Yes, I'm an attachment parent and I didn't even know it! I didn't know such a thing existed. I've half written a post to put up here about it.
Your sister inlaw sounds awesome. Glad she introduced you to cosleeping.
Attachment style parenting somehow was ingrained in me, too, even though I didn't know the term for it existed. Then "ecological breastfeeding" - no pacifiers, no "every four hours" schedule, but feeding on demand, whether for comfort, or hunger. In 21stC America, this parenting style is not well supported. I had no family nearby, nor friends who could give me a break from the attached child. I gave up singing in church - not even for an hour would my attached baby let me out of her sight. The church babysitter chastised me: "She's only six months old! She's crying out of anger, to get her way" - fed, diapered, all that. I want to say all three children grew up more secure, confident, loving, and close to me, for all this, but the culture we live in has more influence than one eccentric mother.