attachment parenting

My 8.5 month mainly only wants to sleep on me. She was an excellent sleeper and self-soother (on her own, nothing we did) until around 7 months when she dropped from 3 to 2 naps, started crawling etc. We recently took a long flight where she only slept on me and since then has wanted that to...

Before pointing out how ridiculous this statement may be, I said FEELS damaging, not that it IS damaging. Sigh* going through it with my 14 month old toddler friends. We have always followed attachment and gentle parenting. It’s always been instinctual to us and we have always done our best to...

My baby will be 10 months by the time this trip takes place August 29th. We ebf and cosleep. He will take a bottle but I stay at home with him and we are together pretty much 24/7 besides the very occasional 2-4 hour outing. He has grown almost as attached to dad in the last couple of months but...

Does anyone know of an appropriate book for 1.5 old that has a theme of mommy leaving but coming back. Recently my daughter is going through separation anxiety any time I need to run a quick errand and can’t bring her. I never ‘sneak out’ I always tell her mommy will be back (x,y,z). I only...

he started daycare 2.5 weeks ago and has been sick ever since. It's so bad she seems to have forgotten how to breathe through her nose even when she's cleared out. This may sound stupid but most days we have been having to clear her out multiple times a day using the aspirator or frida and I...

My husband and I (37) have struggled through our first 2.5 years of parenting our son for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is my attached parenting style. My son has always been very attached to me, preferred me to my husband (although a relationship is definitely solidifying there...

Hey fellow moms, I just wanted to ask your opinion, as this really made me question myself. I'm (34f) a SAHM and I have 3 children. Son A (16) son B (9) and daughter C (22 months). We don't have a TV in our living room. I am not a big fan of screen time, but the older two are allowed to play...

My eleven month old hates bedtime. She’ll start getting upset when she realizes we’ve started her bedtime routine. My husband and I go to bed when she goes to bed and she’s usually tired enough that she falls asleep nursing (she’s EBF), but not always, sometimes she tries to get bitey and I...

Hi everyone. I’m FTM and need some advice to reduce crying for my 3.5 months old before sleep. Here is what I’ve been doing and I’m unsure if I’m doing it right. At every day nap, she’d be crying a little like she’s fighting it, and then she’ll be quick asleep, like under 2mins crying. However...

My almost 1 year old son was a unicorn baby until 4 months old. He fell asleep anywhere, even on his own, and never had any long night wake ups, just woke up to nurse. When he turned 4 months old things changed and all of a sudden he had these 1 hour night wake ups. I thought this is just a...

I’m in the UK so don’t know if it’s particularly bad here but I find it so uncomfortable and isolating how widespread and normalised sleep training/CIO is. I’m the only mum I know that isn’t doing it, and I find it amazing how much mums at baby groups will talk about their sleep training as if...

Hi ! I thought I’d share an update on an issue I had with LO’s sleep in case someone might find it useful. I made this post about struggling with my 6 month old’s sleep https://www.reddit.com/r/AttachmentParenting/s/lWdYnJi3Yj We decided to do a week of testing different conditions to see what...

I saw a post from a while ago, but has anyone purchased her 0-18 month course? Is it worth it? My 7.5 month old is waking anywhere from 3-6+ times every single night. She sits herself up in her crib and then cries. 90% of the time I end up nursing her back to sleep.. her dad used to be able to...

Hi! I posted a while back about montessori parenting/attachment parenting. The issue at the time or the curiosity was how to foster independence while practicing AP. My LO (8mo) is pretty attached to me and I'm proud of this and our bond. She's at the dev stage where even if I leave the room...

Hey! So, our bubba sleeps in a beside bassinet. It's seperate from the bed but literally right up against it, which has worked really well as a breastfeeding mum. She is a fairly light sleeper, so I have to be extra careful when transitioning her into her sleeping space, and her being right next...

So today I had my mil over to help with LO, (almost 5m) while I was getting ready for a job interview (shower etc) LO was tired and was getting upset (he’s also easily frustrated atm, wants to move independently but obvs just not quite there yet) and he was crying in MIL arms. Now this isn’t...

I have a 3.5 month old and he sleeps in his cot at night but we contact nap during the day because naps in his cot are very short (20-45mins) and he’s prone to overtiredness. I’m ok with it for now but it doesn’t feel sustainable long term (I’d like to be able to sleep too or do some stretching...

Right now I’m sitting next to my recently turned 7 month old who is sleeping on our floor bed in our small studio apartment. There’s music playing out of a speaker on the kitchen counter that we listened to as I danced him to sleep. The light outside our front door is peaking through the kitchen...

Our 10 mo old sleeps in a sidecar crib on my side of the bed. I try to create a barrier with my body that prevents her from leaving the confines of the crib but sometimes I roll over in my sleep. Last night she crawled to the end of the bed and fell off. Luckily she is ok, quit crying the...

I am always justifying why I still put LO in the carrier to make her sleep at 10 MO, the fact that I pick her up during the night if she cries, the fact that I have Baby Tracker to know how long she has been awake/changed diaper/ate, the fact that I don't let her taking everything as she pleases...