Hello,

I just wanted to mention that the Origins of AP are not publicized but there is much false info on where it came from. I researched it and wrote a whole article on it here:

Attachment Parenting Revealed

I understand your reasoning as well..I had natural birth with two of my boys in the hospital..The thing that I worry about is yes a midwife is trained to deal with the birth itself..With little complications..But in the end if something were to go wrong she did not train as intensely or for the duration a OBGYN has..
And she cannot perform surgery in your home..you have to be airlifted or rushed to hospital..Yes people die in hospital as well..
But if there was a simple surgery to get your baby out faster and save them in that 5 minute time frame?
Would you not take it..?
I agree to disagree on this issue..and i understand your argument..but I am doubtful because of it that you have lost a baby or that you know what is entailed in that..That may be where my argument lies..and why I feel very strongly about this issue
But I support your right to choose..I just think people should consider all the options and risks..
In the end the most important thing to me is that you have a healthy baby and know you have done everything you could of to bring them safely into the world..

Hi! I am so happy to see the comments about AP and co-sleeping. Attachment Parenting International (API) has a couple of pages about their Principles and safe co-sleeping practices.

To read more about the Principles click here and scroll down a bit:
http://www.attachmentparenting.org/support.shtml

For API’s guidelines for safe co-sleeping click here:
http://www.attachmentparenting.org/cosleepwork.shtml

There is a difference between “natural family living” and attachment parenting. Often times a lot of parents that practice AP follow more natural family living practices such as the ones mentioned about birth, vaccinations, cloth diapers, organic foods, etc. However, as one person pointed out, those practices aren’t necessary focused on “attachment” and attachment theory.

This is a good article written by one of API’s co-founders:
http://www.attachmentparenting.org/artattachcycle.shtml

Here’s another one written by someone else:
http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/attachment/online/inge_origins.pdf

As for homebirth, we had a hospital birth with our first one and a homebirth with our second. We had a great, safe birth for our second but I will be the first to admit that it’s not for everyone. If a mama or papa is worried about the safety of the birth then it will be a more difficult process. A mama should birth where she feels safe and for some mamas that’s at home and for some it’s in a hospital. My wish is simply that all women have the right to choose where they have their baby enter the world. A lot of states ban or heavily restrict homebirthing and that’s the shame of it all if you ask me.

16 and 13 and still sleeping in the same bed as their mother and father?! What happens when they get married, their spouses jump in the bed at night, too?? Things like this are what has gone wrong with this country and taught people that they don’t ever have to grow up or accept any responsibility. We’re a nation for of freaking Peter Pans.

But Terralynn, babies and mothers can die at a hospital.Also, not every hospital is great or healthy..I’ve been to a few hospitals where people laugh when they hear your doctor’s name but they are well known for being a horrible doctor all over the state, so try to think about stuff like that before saying you judge people who have or decide to have home births cause at the end of the day, it’s their decision, not ours.

Hey!!!

Your blog is really good.

I like to read what you put up here.

Its interesting to know that you make mom and dads so special. Hope you keep posting something like this again and again and again..

So whats going to be put up here at New years day!!!

Meanwhile, do visit this intersting posts :
http://www.goodparenting.co.in/parenting/how-to-help-chidren-grow-mentally-physically-and-spiritually/

Happy new year in advance!

Terralyn:

These terrible things can happen whether you’re at home, or in a hospital.

I have to mention that although I am not totally against home birth..I know through having 3 very different births..There are no guarantees in life..and that 5 minute ride to the hospital could mean the difference between life and death for your baby..I read a very interesting article titled, “Home Birth is Very Natural, But So Is Death” in a magazine that drove it home for me..I just lost a baby last year..And after being involved with many women who had still births some for exactly this reason because of a cord accident or last minute placental abruption.. I can’t say that I totally condone it.. I know it is a person’s choice to choose the method in which they deliver their child..And all the power given to you for that..I know for the most part these births are safe. But I myself, knowing even the slight risks associated with it, I am not willing to take any chances with my babies lives.