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I don't wanna turn this place into Mumsnet, but interested in this since I didn't follow this but wondering if anybody did successfully?
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What background info do you need, did you follow attachment or non attachment parenting?
Second this.
What OP, are you talking about?
Attachment parenting
1.Birth bonding: The first few hours after birth are regarded as very important to promote attachment.
2.Belief in the signal value of your baby’s cries: Parents are encouraged to learn to understand their baby’s cries and respond quickly and appropriately to them.
3.Breastfeeding: This is regarded to have physical and psychological advantages to both mother and child.
4.Babywearing: The term was first used by Dr. Sears and it means carrying the baby in a sling or other carrier, close to the body of the caregiver.
5.Bedding close to baby: Sleeping in the same room and preferably in the same bed as the baby is encouraged, as is frequent (breast)feeding at night.
6.Balance and boundaries: Appropriate responsiveness (knowing when to say yes and when to say no) is needed to keep a healthy family live.
7.Beware of baby trainers: Instead of taking advice about how to ‘train’ the baby to make it cry less and sleep for longer stretches, parents are encouraged to listen to their own instinct and intuition.
Non Attachment Parenting
You let your offspring bawl itself to sleep
Ok Im not bias
I don't really get it. Letting your child "self sooth" or whatever people call it does not mean you do not do any of the 7 things you list. I mean surely some of them are such fundamental things regarding babyrearing that 99% of people do them anyway.
I wasn't a successful breast-feeder but I did express all my child's feeds for the first few months (which was grim I must say!)
I didn't baby wear much as my little one didn't like to be in a sling, I ended up buying 3 and he would only 'put up' with one of them and even then only occasionally.
Little one sleeps with us most nights now, and he is 17 months. Illnesses, teething, me working full time etc just makes it easier for us all to get a bit if sleep and if we all have to sleep together then so be it.
I've never left him to cry it out, don't like the notion of controlled crying at all. When they are young they always have a reason for crying. You cannot spoil a newborn / young infant.
Now he is a toddler we are setting boundaries, he knows what he is and isn't allowed to do and he is praised / discouraged as appropriate. He probably thinks his name is "no" these days
We are basically just making it up as we go along and doing what we have to do!
Yes agreed. That's what we did.
I have never understood how anyone would prefer to leave a baby crying. It's the most exasperating noise known to man.
pretty much the BIB n the best way to do it as every child is different ..seems like you got a lid on this parenting lark rainbow
No way would i ever share a bed with a baby, cot next to our bed but no baby in our bed. Not worth the risk imo.
Never read a baby book and took no advice from anyone because never got offered any.
Firm boundries with the ability to say 'No' and mean it.
But why ruin it by saying letting a baby bawl itself to sleep. Its ok in my world to settle a baby and let it have a little cry/grizzle without dashing to its aid every second. All my children were left for short periods to self settle when every need was met. I would never leave a baby to bawl but grizzle and cry a little yes of course. I had 3 brilliant sleepers.
Same
At the moment he's 7 weeks and still in his moses basket which we have in our room. I'd never have him in our bed though and as soon as he's too big for the moses basket he'll be going in his own room in his cot. At the moment when he's had a feed at around 9pm we usually put him upstairs "to bed" in our room and put the baby monitor on. He sleeps really well, last night he had his final feed at 11 and then slept for nearly 7 hours. If we've got somebody babysitting though he usually stays downstairs with them until we get home.
I don't see anything wrong with leaving him to calm down if he's just fussing and crying a bit, he usually calms after a minute or so and goes to sleep. Obviously if he's bawling his head off we'll go to him.
I would settle mine after a feed/winding/clean nappy and then leave the room. I would stand outside the room and listen. General snuffling around, little bit of crying and whinging would be left for a few minutes. If the crying got worse and you can tell after a while if its going to carry on or stop then I would go in and sooth. Most of the time I would not pick up, just a hand on the chest and a shhhhhhhh and start the process all over again.
At no point would I have ever left a baby to scream for ages. All that does is work baby up into a frenzy and sleep would be out of the window anyway.
There is a middle ground with everything.
We didnt need a name for it we just called it love
^^ That x ∞
I do some of the AP stuff, not because it's AP but because it's what I'm comfortable with and it's what works. I only knew it was AP stuff when I read the list. Now I know I fit into some cool AP gang.
Groovy :kitty:
Personally I liked to get mine into a proper routine, while ensuring they still got plenty of love and attention.
I too have done what has come naturally, not bf as he has a milk allergy, a little bit of baby wearing and he is 7 months and his cot is tight up against my bed. I don't let him cry it out, but from day one he went into his cot/crib awake and I have to say it has made things a lot easier.