Adventures in Attachment Parenting: Addicted to Baby Wearing by Allison Silver
September 27th, 2012
Never in my wildest dreams would I have known how much I would love wearing my baby. At one of my baby showers, two coworkers gave me a Moby-style cloth wrap to wear. One of the ladies who gave me the wrap is from Kenya and told me that in ...
Adventures in Attachment Parenting: Good Riddance Bumbo by Allison Silver
September 20th, 2012
About ten years ago, I was working with babies and toddlers with special needs as an Early Intervention Specialist, when I was introduced to the Bumbo seat. The parents who had one seemed to love it. They thought it was so cute that their two to three month old baby ...
Adventures in Attachment Parenting: The Crying It Out Controversy By Allison Silver
September 13th, 2012
This week I was watching the NBC Nightly News and a segment came on that caught my attention. A new study from Pediatrics had been released and was advocating that sleep training techniques have no lasting effect or cause any psychological damage to parent or child. No way, I thought ...
Adventures in Attachment Parenting: The Dreaded Car Ride By Allison Silver
September 6th, 2012
All babies are supposed to love the car. In fact, there are many people out there who are eager and willing to share with you their unsolicited advice on how they spent many a night driving their baby around the block to help them go to sleep. Well not my ...
Adventures in Attachment Parenting: How Did We Get Here? By Allison Silver
August 30th, 2012
My husband and I did not choose to become attachment parents. Attachment parenting chose us. Never in my wildest dreams would I ever have imagined that I would be one of those moms. You know the one that I’m talking about. The co- sleeping, baby wearing, breastfeeding mom! Being a ...
Bonding Moments with a Breast Pump: The Practice of Exclusive Pumping by Heather Bowles
June 9th, 2012
I belong to a subset of the mommy blogger community that affectionately refers to itself as "crunchy". For those of you who don't know what that means: we breastfeed, cloth diaper, carry our babies in slings rather than using strollers, make our own baby food purees, co-sleep, eat organic, recycle ...
