My Philosophy

I am a mother of 4 children, all attachment parented. In our home we breastfeed, babywear, bedshare with our youngest and speak out about routine infant circumcision. My husband and I are both lactivists and intactivists. We do not spank or use the Cry-It-Out method of sleep training. Above all, we see our children as individual people to be raised with the same respect we would expect for ourselves. We feel that we as a society revere independence, even in very young babies, too much. We expect newborns to sleep alone in cribs after spending nine months cuddled in the warmth of mother's body. We then invent devices like swaddle blankets, womb bears and the like to mimic the womb environment, to put in their beds with them, when all they really need is the warmth of their mother's breast. My philosophy is also that dads have a huge part in their children's development and secure attachment. So keep my philosophy in mind when visiting my blog. You have the right to your opinion of course, and I don't judge others and their parenting opinions. Just don't expect posts glorifying circumcision from me, for example, because you aren't going to find what you're looking for!