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Ina May Gaskin to Discuss Birth on API Live

Ina May Gaskin, author of Spiritual Midwifery and Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth, will be joining API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Barbara Nicholson and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian on API Live on July 27, 2009. Gaskin will be speaking on the topic ”Special Delivery”: The Gift of Loving Your Best Birth (and Making Peace with Plan B).

Topics to be covered during the live teleseminar include

Knowing your body and your rights
How to have your baby with no regrets
What you won’t hear in your birthing classes
Why we get stuck in the perfect portrait of birth and how it’s not our true goal
Why things don’t always turn out the way we wanted them to (and that’s OK too)
and MORE

For more information on this event, visit the API Live blog or register for the teleseminar online.

API’s 15th Anniversary Celebration – August 29-30 in Nashville

You are invited to meet the foremost authorities of API’s Parenting Principles at a one-time special event to celebrate API’s 15th Anniversary August 29 and 30 in Nashville, TN. This event has something for everyone so register everyone now and help us celebrate 15!

The weekend event will feature a never-before think-tank event and reception on attachment parenting by attachment parenting experts Dr. William and Martha Sears, sleep expert Dr. James McKenna, LLL founder Mary Ann Cahill, parent education leader Dr. Stephen Bavolek, separation/custody and AP expert Dr. Isabelle Fox, hosted by noted parenting author and television anchor/entrepreneur Lu Hanessian, and honored guests API founders and authors Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker. This is a celebration so the think-tank event and reception cost is only $10! Be sure to register and book your accommodations now.

Other weekend features include an evening concert by popular singer-songwriter performers and their adult children, parent/child events around Nashville arranged just for the weekend, a book signing event, a special session on attachment and separated families, a silent auction, and capped off with a midday family concert by the awesome Roger Day! And you can come to just hang out by the hotel pool with some really great AP families! Be sure to sign up and learn more about this special gathering—we can’t wait to get together with you!

If you are an organization, company or small business and are interested in helping to sponsor this event—with lots of benefits, we want to hear from you too! Contact Kit Dulin, API’s Advertising Manager.

API’s July Membership Special – 15% Discount

Did you miss out on the 15th Anniversary membership promotion that was running in the month of June? We’ve decided to continue to provide a membership special for you during the month of July as well. Buy one family, professional associate, or gift membership for a 15% discount. Don’t let this membership promotion pass you by! (Support groups will retain their $15 portion of the membership).

Special Edition of The Attached Family Magazine

The special Attached at the Heart edition of The Attached Family Magazine (PDF) magazine is now available.

This edition features a preview of API’s 15th Anniversary Celebration, an interview with API co-founders and book authors Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker, information on a free drawing, details on the $15 API Membership Special, and so much more.

Attachment Parenting International Celebrates 15 Years

The first weekend in June was a special moment in the history of Attachment Parenting International. API celebrated the 15th Anniversary of the organization. Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker co-founded the organization and in the past 15 years, families all over the world have received support by API.

A variety of events are being planned this year to commemorate this special time in API’s history. Beginning on June 15, Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker will be participating in a two week interactive forum discussion about their new book, Attached at the Heart.
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Who’s the Boss?

Like most people I know, I spent my adolescence longing for true independence. Though my parents certainly weren’t oppressive, I was always anxious to assume control of my own life. I wanted to decide for myself, everything from whether to become a vegetarian, to what I wanted to do with my Saturday afternoon or when I wanted to go to bed. Adulthood, even with all its responsibilities, was freedom; finally, I was my own boss. Eventually, I partnered with an amazing man, and together we took charge of our new life. Six years later, I gave birth to our baby girl . . . and was instantly demoted.

Meet the new boss. After only 21 months on the job, she’s shaken things up quite a bit at our place. So much for deciding for myself when I wanted to go to bed. These days, plans often don’t proceed – well, as I planned – because the youngest person in our family has different ideas. And more often than not, when such conflicts arise, we defer to our daughter. (Within reason and safety permitting, of course.)

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Sleeping through the night

Back in November I had written about night-time parenting. I had asked how the situation is in other AP homes. Well, things have changed quite a lot since and I thought it would be nice to give feedback. Continue reading “Sleeping through the night”

Baby Led Sleep

I have two children right now. The Bean is almost three years and the Chickpea is almost eight months. Last night, and the night before that, and the night before that, I parented my three year old to sleep until he was soundly, deeply, out. On those same nights I nursed my eight month old in the rocker in her room, rocked her with her pacifier, and put her in her crib from Treasure Rooms sleepy but awake. Then I left her alone and walked out. Within a few minutes, a few quiet minutes with a little tossing and maybe a sigh she was asleep. Continue reading “Baby Led Sleep”