Attachment parenting makes life easier, don't you think?

[Mellymama]

Last night after about the tenth time my almost-four month old ds woke up to nurse (I tell ya, he woke up every hour last night) I thought to myself "thank goodness we are co-sleeping. If I had to get up and walk to a nursery and lift him out of his crib, then nurse him, put him back, and walk back to bed I would be getting no sleep whatsoever." Or even worse, If I had to walk downstairs and prepare a bottle for him instead of just popping a breast in his mouth! I feel lucky that I am able to breastfeed.
Then I got to thinking: attachment parenting really makes life easier. Not only because of the co-sleeping, but also the baby wearing, and many other aspects. And it's ironic, because "baby trainers" are always telling me that in the long run our co-sleeping and baby wearing is going to make life difficult because it's "spoiling" the baby! My mom is SO against co-sleeping so trust me I hear it a lot.
I realized another thing: when ds is hungry he almost never has to cry in order to tell me. Because we are AP, I can easily read his signals and nurse him when he needs it.
I'm just so happy that when my first baby was born 3 years ago I went with my instincts as a parent. After a few months we heard of this style of parenting, and realized it is exactly what we were automatically doing! Now we are huge AP advocates and are loving every second of it.
Our (by our I mean all of us APers here) children are so lucky to have such a wonderful experience in their young lives! And they will most likely grow up to be APer's too!
Thanks for letting me share!
Mel :) :) :)

[Karennboys]

I agree!!
When my oldest sons were babies I had never heard of AP... but my 9 year old was a "high needs" baby, so ended up co sleeping. Everyone told me I would crush him, I would hurt him, etc etc etc. Well, with much guilt at the time, I went with my instincts and guess what? He's fine, and at 3 he started sleeping in his own bed by request.

Slade is a night waker too, and I love that he is right there next to me, that I can just pick him up and nurse him :)

[justrose]

OMG, so true! :) Especially the co-sleeping thing.

My sister had a baby on Tuesday, and while visiting her the baby started to cry. I had no idea what to do because I couldn't stick my boob in her mouth! :o

AP is easier, more satisfying, more convenient and practical in my book.

[eviesmom]

My sister had a baby on Tuesday, and while visiting her the baby started to cry. I had no idea what to do because I couldn't stick my boob in her mouth! :o

LOL I had a similar experience at a friend's house. She was baby sitting a 4 month old and she was putting her dd down for a nap when the baby started to cry so I said I'd feed the baby. I didn't know how to prepare a bottle and I found I couldn't do it one-handed so I had to put the baby down and let her cry while I read the directions. Then while I was feeding her I discovered I couldn't do anything else because it takes two hands to bottle-feed a small infant unless you prop the bottle somehow. You just can't chase a toddler while bottle-feeding an infant unless you have lots of practice so my dd decided it was time to get into everything. It was the most frustrating half-hour of my life. If I could have put this baby in a sling and nursed her it wouldn't have been so bad because I know I can chase a toddler that way.