Today is the first day of World Breastfeeding Week, and so it is with great pleasure that I kick off API’s World Breastfeeding Week celebration with API Speaks’ very first giveaway! Read on for contest entry details!
Why Celebrate World Breastfeeding Week?
I believe that the breastfeeding support I received when I was a new mother from [...]

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As part of the Attachment Parenting International site redesign that was launched earlier this year, a new forum section was also created. I volunteer as the forum administrator and wanted to dedicate my API Speaks entry this month to introducing you to the API Forums. For those that have visited before, maybe you’ll [...]

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We moved to another country when I was 6 months pregnant. Leaving all our extended families back home, they weren’t quite aware of our parenting choices.
We had decided to co-sleep with our daughter so we didn’t buy a crib/cot for her. During the early weeks, my mom was quite anxious that we might roll over [...]

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Thanks, Dr. Maria Blois, for this week’s post! Don’t forget to check out today’s other submissions!

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As my children get older I find myself longing for more attachment, my arms aching for more snuggles, more closeness. When my kids were tiny babies, it was easy to lose my sense of wonder in their overwhelming needs. I often got frustrated that they needed so very much of me, so very much of [...]

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Each month we like to spotlight one of our fabulous volunteers as a way to recognize their efforts and the contribution they make to API. This month we are spotlighting a volunteer that I’ve grown very fond of over the course of the year. Avril is splendidly witty with many talents and we are fortunate [...]

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Over the last few weeks, the Half Pint Pixie household has been busy moving house and settling into our new home. During this time, Littlepixie has taken quite a stretch both physically and developmentally. She has so many words now, only yesterday she ran out into the garden, then promptly ran back to the path [...]

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In my last post here, I wrote about my son’s extreme pickiness with many, many foods. It has been a real challenge for my husband and I over these past 4 years but I can now say that there is no greater joy than witnessing when big a payoff happens.
We had that moment last week [...]

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Check out this week’s other Wordless Wednesday submissions. Want to see us feature a picture of your little cutie on API Speaks next Wednesday? Email Julie.

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One of the first questions expecting mothers get when sharing their good news (after “Is it a boy or a girl?”) is, in my experience, are you going back to work? It’s a tough question. It’s a loaded question. And now, thanks to Carla Moquin of the Parenting in the Workplace Institute, it’s a question [...]

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