cosleeping

Welcome, Cosleeping Crib-Sleepers!

January 26, 2010

Many of us attached parents understand what it’s like to feel ostracized for our choice in parenting practices. We’re tired of the looks and comments about giving birth without drugs, breastfeeding beyond six months, holding our babies all the time, disciplining without

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Tough Love? No Way, Baby

December 17, 2009

This guest post is in response to a recent Time magazine article. For more information on the article and API’s response, please visit the API Advocates page. “We’re glad to see you . . . We’re sorry you had to come.” So says Time Magazine to our newborns, who are biologically wired to seek out [...]

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Doing The “Right” Thing Is Never Easy

November 5, 2009

Baby knows best. Really. They are perhaps not scholars just yet but they do know what they need better than any of us and well, we should listen to them . . . and if we did they would probably say . . . that doing the “right” thing is never easy. Like when you [...]

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Seeing API in a Whole New Light

September 3, 2009
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Family at the Center

September 2, 2009

I am sitting in an RV. Again. This is a very common scene. I am surrounded by the sounds of a music festival gearing up. Our community is the grounds crew, as we have been for the past six years. While we are “on the road” my jobs include communications and music, as well as [...]

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Co-sleeping: They Say So Much

August 31, 2009

Next month, she’ll turn 3. And yes, she is still in our bed. They say she’ll never become independent. They say she’ll never learn to sleep on her own. They say we’ll never get her out of our bed. They say a lot of things. But they aren’t there at night, when her heartbeat and [...]

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Adventures in Night Time Parenting

August 13, 2009

My son doesn’t sleep well.  He never has. He doesn’t sleep through the night, as per the textbooks, or sleep experts. He needs to nurse to fall asleep; he will co-sleep when he feels like it, but other night’s requests to be in his own bed, in his own space. He needs to have my [...]

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Part-Time Co-Sleeping

May 15, 2009

In my almost five years as a mom, I’ve been lucky to avoid most of the controversial issues that pit parents against one another. I received mostly positive reinforcement and reactions over my decisions to breastfeed, stay at home, use discipline other than spanking, return to work part-time, wait an additional year to send my [...]

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