Topic: What made you decide to Attachment Parent? 

My evolution into AP started with feminist author Naomi Wolfe's "Misconceptions," which chronicles the appalling lack of common sense in modern obstetrics. My next epiphany came when I picked up my first issue of Mothering magazine in a Seattle library.   When we were finally able to conceive, the attachment parenting philosophies seemed more in line with our own values.

So what influenced your decision to become an attachment parent?

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I didn't know the term AP until around my DD's pregnancy/birth.... before that I just called it natural parenting. To me, using instincts and listening to my child's needs and such just seemed natural. Later I'd find there was this AP term that worked well enough.

BTW, I didn't use natural parenting to insinuate that others' ways were unnatural... but it did seem odd and yeah, unnatural to use artificial formula, plastic diapers, ignore their baby's cries for needs and to live in a way that's far removed from nature.... I had in mind the kind of parent I wanted to be and just did that... so glad to know that I wasn't the only one out there! LOL

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