From the time my daughter Erika, now three and a half, was a few months old, I’ve been learning to let go. Learning that I can’t, and shouldn’t try, to protect her from minor bumps and bruises, from small disappointments, from making mistakes. I know that if I try to protect her from [...]

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In It takes a village, Half Pint Pixie wrote, “I began to realise that a village doesn’t have to be a physical location.” This sentence fits with API on so many levels!
Our organization is a 501(c)(3) non-profit supported by memberships, donations, and volunteers. API accomplishes a great deal with efficiency-incurring only minimal expenses by employing [...]

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Originally posted on July 27, 2006 - Four months before my son Julian was born at home.
By now you may have gathered that instead of choosing to have an OB-attended hospital birth this time around, we are planning to have a midwife-attended home birth. There are a number of varied factors that have led me [...]

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Am I an AP parent?
Is it possible to be an AP parent with twins?

I don’t wear them in slings (Two babies @ 30 lbs + sling(s) = sprained back).
They don’t sleep in my bed (Any more. Ask me about their first 3 months.).
I fed them formula in their first 6 weeks of life (Before my [...]

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Originally posted June 24, 2006, when my son was 4 and my daughter was 16 months.
My kids usually get along quite well. They have their moments of course, as all siblings do, but I’m amazed my son has the patience he does, what with his little sister messing up his cars and his toys [...]

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Originally posted June 24, 2006, when my son was 4 and my daughter was 16 months.
My kids usually get along quite well. They have their moments of course, as all siblings do, but I’m amazed my son has the patience he does, what with his little sister messing up his cars and his toys [...]

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Originally posted June 24, 2006, when my son was 4 and my daughter was 16 months.
My kids usually get along quite well. They have their moments of course, as all siblings do, but I’m amazed my son has the patience he does, what with his little sister messing up his cars and his toys [...]

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Originally posted June 24, 2006, when my son was 4 and my daughter was 16 months.
My kids usually get along quite well. They have their moments of course, as all siblings do, but I’m amazed my son has the patience he does, what with his little sister messing up his cars and his toys [...]

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Originally posted June 24, 2006, when my son was 4 and my daughter was 16 months.
My kids usually get along quite well. They have their moments of course, as all siblings do, but I’m amazed my son has the patience he does, what with his little sister messing up his cars and his toys [...]

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Originally posted June 24, 2006, when my son was 4 and my daughter was 16 months.
My kids usually get along quite well. They have their moments of course, as all siblings do, but I’m amazed my son has the patience he does, what with his little sister messing up his cars and his toys [...]

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