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For ages, women around the world have practiced what we now call "attachment parenting": childbearing and rearing styles that reinforce the tender bond between a mother and her child. As instinctive as pregnancy itself, natural parenting can reduce labor pain, prevent health problems in newborns, and help make the first few years of your baby's life joyful and rewarding for both of you. In these collected essays, more than forty amazing women come together to share research, insights, and personal experiences on attachment parenting, homebirth, breastfeeding, medical circumcision, co-sleeping, and baby wearing. Contributors include well-known motherhood authors Rachel Gathercole, Jan Hunt, and Sarah Buckley, MD, whose articles have informed and educated audiences worldwide. These mothers' stories underscore the growing significance of attachment parenting in our highly medicalized birth culture, and offer a look at the natural alternatives. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I found this essay collection simply unputdownable! I was taking any free moment to read it. Made of short 2-4-pages stories, it's a very easy read.
It encomprises topics like childbirth, breastfeeding, co-sleeping, babywearing and circumcision (which is apparently a very common practice in the US), where several mothers share their story of how they had their first encounter with attachment parenting. Some knew it from their childhood, others grew towards it through the advice of friends, families or books.
The book exposes the strength with which these women face and fight the mainstreem childrearing practices. Some of them went from being attorneys or secretaries to children advocates. For many of them an email address or a website is mentioned.
I was mostly touched by the stories on circumcision, as I had no idea what a torture that is and that it is such common practice in a country as developed as the US. I hope that from the time the book was published (2003) things have improved. I think routine circumcision should be banned and perhaps even forbidden by law as it's against human rights.
All the other topics I was already familiar with, and practising them, but I loved the feeling that I am not alone! :)
UPDATE March 2012:
In the meanwhile I ordered some 5 other copies of the book to give as a gift, either for the birth of a child or for the birthday of the mother. I say to all that it is by far the best book I've read in the past year. ( )