I don't measure someones APness on how much gear they have, I used t o but I don't anymore. I do try to tell new moms when they ask to not go overboard a carseat clothes blankets diapers and a good sling will start them out well. A bed and changing table discuss you may want may not. Some things like bouncy seats strollers swings highchairs ect can all be GREAT and very much a part of an AP parenting style. Many you simpily wont use till babies older and waiting to test what will owrk best if you decide might be more cost effective anyways.
I know I avoided buying and using our travel system stroller for every cause AP moms use slings.... DD hated the sling unless she was asleep or nursing.. Slinging was super painful over time. Yet I had it in my head AP moms don't use strollers
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AP moms make there own food, DD has a rare oral motar condition that made eatting foods with ANY texture other than extemely smooth VERY hard. Yet I spend Wway way waaaaay more than jarred foods would have cost me creating wholesome all homemade stuff that she wouldn't touch ever
, But AP moms don't buy jarred foods 
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Spent an obsecene amount on fancy cloth diapers trying to find a nighttime solution that didn't mak my DD breakout into bleeding welts, finially realized one sposie at night WAS the AP kind thing.
I ended up with the DD who loved to cosleep but alos needs her own space and did better with eaither side car or co rooming arangments depending. A child who did require some formula but thankfully we still had a 4 year nursing relationship
A child who because of her food issues really needed a propertly positioned highchair. Whos excema makes lotion a needed monthly expendure.
So while i agree too much is just not needed I also wont go around preaching. I'll try to help the person not overspend or find the most enviromentally friendly as I do feel these things are important but I wont judge.
Deanna
I know I avoided buying and using our travel system stroller for every cause AP moms use slings.... DD hated the sling unless she was asleep or nursing.. Slinging was super painful over time. Yet I had it in my head AP moms don't use strollers
:.AP moms make there own food, DD has a rare oral motar condition that made eatting foods with ANY texture other than extemely smooth VERY hard. Yet I spend Wway way waaaaay more than jarred foods would have cost me creating wholesome all homemade stuff that she wouldn't touch ever
, But AP moms don't buy jarred foods :Spent an obsecene amount on fancy cloth diapers trying to find a nighttime solution that didn't mak my DD breakout into bleeding welts, finially realized one sposie at night WAS the AP kind thing.
I ended up with the DD who loved to cosleep but alos needs her own space and did better with eaither side car or co rooming arangments depending. A child who did require some formula but thankfully we still had a 4 year nursing relationship
A child who because of her food issues really needed a propertly positioned highchair. Whos excema makes lotion a needed monthly expendure.So while i agree too much is just not needed I also wont go around preaching. I'll try to help the person not overspend or find the most enviromentally friendly as I do feel these things are important but I wont judge.
Deanna
