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Sleeping through the night

April 6, 2009

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.

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When you are feeling overwhelmed by breastfeeding

March 1, 2009

My daughter has just turned two. Breastfeeding is still going strong here and we have no plans to stop yet. However, when your child turns two, you expect them to be more independent and breastfeed less. At least that was my expectation. In January we were away visiting my sister. Believe me, my daughter was [...]

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Nighttime parenting

November 30, 2008

My daughter is almost two years old. I still nurse her to sleep in the sling.Once in the afternoon for a nap and once in the evening.This process takes at least 30 minutes if I’m very lucky,if not more than that. When she falls into deep sleep,I transfer her to the bed. If you had [...]

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AP while on vacation

November 13, 2008

We have just returned from a holiday which lasted 4 weeks. We have been to 4 countries, visited our extended families, went to the beach and stayed at 7 different places. I was a bit anxious that it would be too much for our 20 month old daughter but she handled it very well. We [...]

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The Time-In Technique

August 27, 2008

Recently there has been a discussion about “time out” technique on a yahoo group. A mother was telling about how effective she finds the “time out” sessions to teach her 18 month old not to bite mommy. Lots of people were interested and wanted to learn more about the technique. I believe in gentle discipline. [...]

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AP and Grandparents

July 30, 2008

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 [...]

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The little scientist

June 26, 2008

Long before our daughter was born, I decided to be a stay-at-home-mom and I love it. I can’t say it’s always easy. Looking after a toddler requires lots and lots of energy. But then it also provides lots and lots of hugs and kisses! As a first time mom, when my daughter was a newborn [...]

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Nursing your toddler

May 28, 2008

Nursing your toddler can be quite fun. Especially when they have a special word for it and can ask for it. And then there are the times, when they want you to breastfeed their favorite toy, in our case it’s the monkey, with whom we also co-sleep However there are difficult times as well. Right [...]

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