No naps here either! Well, minimal naps. This morning KJ was up from roughly 6:25 till 11-ish. This is pretty common. Plus she doesn't fall asleep easily like she used to - she won't just nurse to sleep anymore, I've got to bounce her and sshhh her in the Boba or the sling. Then put her down, THEN nurse her (cause she won't "transfer" easily anymore, either!). She seems pretty happy, too, but I worry she's not sleeping enough! She's having a LOT of night wakings, too. The other night she woke up EVERY. HOUR. Sheesh.
I was reading about that woman on the cover of Time and she doesn't sound extreme at all - seems like they're going to paint her that way anyway, though. I read an interview with her and she summed up pretty much how I feel:
"There seems to be a war going on between conventional parenting and attachment parenting, and that’s what I want to avoid. I want everyone to be encouraging. We’re not on opposing teams. We all need to be encouraging to each other, and I don’t think we’re doing a very good job at that."
I hope that article isn't just used as another way to spawn a heated, polarizing debate, though I'm sure it will. I wish this weren't a part of the AP lifestyle. I fully subscribe to AP, obviously - but it's also working for me and KJ, and feels right and natural. I also have friends who are not AP mamas.
For me, the root of AP is that we feel it's of utmost importance for our children to feel loved, accepted, respected, nurtured, encouraged, attached (duh!), etc. So that means we value love, acceptance, respect for other people. I feel it's of equal importance to model that behavior towards other people and other lifestyles as it is to foster and nurture those qualities in our children and in our attachment relationships with them. I'm tired of debates! I feel like mamas, and women in general, need to love and nurture each other, too. That's so sorely missing in our society.
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