Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53687 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Synopsis
A complete guide to the concept of attachment parenting, which argues that parental responsiveness to a baby's needs leads to a well-adjusted child, offers tips on breastfeeding on demand, responding to a baby's cries, minimizing parent-child separation, and avoiding baby "gadgets." Original.

From the Author
An indispensable, hands-on guide to attachment parenting.
From breastfeeding to the family bed to "wearing" your baby or toddler in a sling or backpack, ATTACHMENT PARENTING has all the information you will need to forge a loving, secure attachment with your young children. With expert advice from pediatricians, lactation specialists, and anthropologists--as well as words of wisdom from dozens of real families--this book offers a comprehensive overview of today's most talked-about nurturing style. Also included is an exhaustive list of print, Internet and support group resources for parents. Topics covered in the book include: *Preparing for Your New Baby *Choosing a Birth Setting *Bonding in the First Days After Birth *Choosing a Breastfeeding-Friendly Healthcare Provider *How to Know Whether You Need a Lactation Consultant *Making the Breast vs. Bottle Choice *Breastfeeding Advocacy *How to Get Your Baby to Sleep *The Family Bed *"Ferberizing" *Working and Breastfeeding *Breastpumps *Choosing a Baby Carrier *Child-Respectful Weaning *Breastfeeding Past the First Year and Beyond and much, much more!

Customer Reviews

Forget Gina Ford
she should run a boot camp ...This author actually knows what she is talking about when it comes to children. This book gives you permission to listen to your instincts. It's a shame we need that really but years of bad advice on parenting has meant our society no longer trusts itself to bring up childrem naturally! If you know a mum to be buy her this, and/or anything by Deborah Jackson and William Sears! Spread the word, babies are not born manipulative and do not "need" training, their wants are their needs!

Here you will find lots of help...
...Traditionally, the parenting styles described in this book are not the mainstream ones we are fed by other babycare info sources. BUT THEY SHOULD BE! You have lots of choices in how to parent your baby, but unless you read books like this, you and your baby might miss out on the best choice of all. Or, like me, you might have been doing 'attachment parenting' anyway without knowing it even existed as a label, let alone had a loyal following. What a shame to lose out on feeling supported and affirmed in your parenting. Now you can stand up to your health visitor, your G.P. and your mother-in-law, and feel strong in practices such as continuing the night-feeds, co-sleeping, and sustained breastfeeding.

Try not to feel inadequate if it's not all logistical. I mean, how do you wash your hair, complete the housework, and carry home the groceries with an 18lb baby in a sling? The point is not to get bogged down with the practicalities, as they work out differently for every individual, but to embrace the spirit of the book.

Books like this have helped me to feel proud about bringing my 20 month old into bed for a night feed. Whereas 'normal' baby manuals can generate a sense of failure in our type of parents.

Babies need closeness, and here you will find lots of help in protecting your baby's closeness to you.

attachment parenting
a lovely book which puts the joy back into parenting. the more 'modern' we get the less 'with' our children we tend to be. this book tells you how to stay attached and tells you about the benefits of doing so. the information and suggestions about breastfeeding are accurate and written really well. the book is very pro 'natural' stuff like slings, proper nappies etc. without making you feel guilty if you can't use them. I highly recommend this book - especially to those parents who find Gina Ford's 'the contented little baby book' too unreal.