attachment parenting sleeping through the night
Whats your parenting style?
I am a very dedicated ‘attachment’ parent. I keep my baby physically close to me or a family member at all times. I breastfeed on demand, co-sleep with her and my husband. She has never ben left to cry alone, we have never ‘forced’ her to sleep through out the night.
Well I was just wondering how you chosed to parent your baby?
Where you a strict Gina Ford follower?
Where you a laid back parent?
Did you have firm rountines?
Also do you now regret anything you chose to do or do you feel in your heart that you did the best thing?
Luckily for me when my girls were babies, they WERE such good babies, they rarely cried, they slept all night, they never got sick and they absolutely HATED to be carried. They had little bald spots on the back of their heads from all the laying down lol.
When they started crawling, I would let them get into anything as long as I knew they wouldn’t get hurt. Cabinets, drawers, shelves..I would let them play with pots and pans, rip magazines, get super dirty! I took a lot of pictures too!
When they were about 1-2 years old, I stopped letting them get into places..but I would still let them explore. When they wrote on the walls for the first time, I took lots of pictures. Then I made them clean them and took more pictures.
When my oldest was around 4 years old, I started teaching her about manners and gave her simple rules and chores to do.
She is now 5 going on 6 and she is such a good little girl, of course she has her days when she can be a little monster but those are once in a blue moon..
I plan on doing the same with my now 3 year old.
I have a completed scrapbook for each of my daughters titled “All the trouble I got into when I was a baby” and both of them just LOVE to see it. It’s also a family favorite around the holidays…
haha it has all kind of pictures from … 1 of them covered in baby powder to my then 3 year old drawing all over my then 1 year old…
so I guess I was the “let them explore mom”