Attachment Parenting
Websites
www.attachmentparenting.org
Attachment Parenting International (API) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit member organization, networking with parents, professionals and like-minded organizations around the world. In addition to providing assistance in forming attachment parenting support groups, API functions as a clearinghouse providing educational materials, research information, consultative, referral and speaker services to promote attachment parenting concepts.
http://attachmentparenting.meetup.com
Meet other parents who don't take the easy way out of parenting. Whether supporters of Breastfeeding, Child Led Weaning, Cloth diapering, Homeschooling, Babywearing, or Co-sleeping all are welcome here.
Articles
http://www.naturalchild.org/articles/attachment_parenting.html
http://www.gentleparenting.com/ap_faq.html
Blogs
www.apparenting.com
Baby Wearing
Articles
http://www.thebabywearer.com/
http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/laura_simeon.html
http://www.natural-pregnancy-mentor.com/babywearing-benefits.html
Babywearing benefits are many but truly, if the term "babywearing" is new, the method is not. Throughout human history, across various cultures and continents, mothers have carried their babies.
Co-Sleeping/Family Bed
Websites
http://www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab/index.html
The University of Notre Dame Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab is both a research and teaching laboratory. Upperclass undergraduate students at Notre Dame gain first hand experience conducting cutting-edge research examining issues of national and international significance. These issues include the safety of different sleep environments as well as the the physiological and/or psychological consequences of the different choices of sleeping arrangements parents make.
Articles
http://www.naturalchild.org/articles/sleeping.html
www.attachmentparenting.org
http://www.attachmentparenting.org/support/articles/safesleepguidelines.php
What you need to know to keep baby safe during sleep in the first six months!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1083020.ece
Margot Sunderland, director of education at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London, says the practice, known as “co-sleeping”, makes children more likely to grow up as calm, healthy adults.
http://www.naturalchild.org/james_mckenna/babies_need.html
Throughout human history, breast-feeding mothers sleeping alongside their infants constituted a marvelously adaptive system in which both the mothers' and infants' sleep physiology and health were connected in beneficial ways. By sleeping next to its mother, the infant receives protection, warmth, emotional reassurance, and breast milk - in just the forms and quantities that nature intended.
http://drmomma.blogspot.com/2009/10/sleeping-with-baby-breastfeeding-night.html
One of the biggest crises of confidence that new mothers face has to do with sleep. Mothers feel responsible for their babies' sleep.
http://www.natural-pregnancy-mentor.com/co-sleeping.html
Co-sleeping also known as the family bed may seem like a new phenomena in the United States...
...when actually it goes back to the beginning of time.
Magazines
www.pathwaystofamilywellness.org
Pathways magazine offers parents resources and thought provoking articles about the family wellness lifestyle.
www.mothering.com
Mothering Magazine celebrates the experience of parenthood as worthy of one's best efforts and fosters awareness of the immense importance and value of parenthood and family life in the development of the full human potential. As a readers' magazine, we recognize parents as the experts and wish to provide truly helpful information upon which parents can base informed choices. Each issue contains philosophical inspiration and practical advice about family living. Topics are as diverse as circumcision, vaccinations, organic foods, childhood illnesses, home birth, ear infections, parenting teens, web site information, midwifery, and homeopathy.
InternetMom.org is designed for informational,educational, and personal purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional care. If you suspect you have a health problem, contact your chiropractor, midwife, or holistic pediatrician.
