Comments on: Attachment Parenting Month and Sleep Sharing http://www.greenmamma.org/blog/2008/10/10/attachment-parenting-month-and-sleep-sharing/ Written and photographed by Jessica Monte Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:37:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jessica/Green Mamma http://www.greenmamma.org/blog/2008/10/10/attachment-parenting-month-and-sleep-sharing/comment-page-1/#comment-963 Jessica/Green Mamma Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:20:06 +0000 http://www.greenmamma.org/blog/?p=1128#comment-963 Regina, thank you for sharing a little bit about your bedtime routine. We are learning that including one that our dd can anticipate helps everyone relax before going to bed. Also, it is too bad that you cannot share the joys of co-sleeping with the parents you work with (is it a matter of the medical associations?). I remember that at La Leche League, parents discuss co-sleeping all the time (often in positive terms). Perhaps you could recommend literature to parents who sound as though they might benefit from co-sleeping? Dr. Sears is a great resource. Just food for thought. Regina, thank you for sharing a little bit about your bedtime routine. We are learning that including one that our dd can anticipate helps everyone relax before going to bed. Also, it is too bad that you cannot share the joys of co-sleeping with the parents you work with (is it a matter of the medical associations?). I remember that at La Leche League, parents discuss co-sleeping all the time (often in positive terms). Perhaps you could recommend literature to parents who sound as though they might benefit from co-sleeping? Dr. Sears is a great resource. Just food for thought.

]]> By: Regina http://www.greenmamma.org/blog/2008/10/10/attachment-parenting-month-and-sleep-sharing/comment-page-1/#comment-950 Regina Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:02:58 +0000 http://www.greenmamma.org/blog/?p=1128#comment-950 I am all for "co-sleeping" but am not allowed to recommend it to parents at work which is so frustrating. Both my boys slept with us until they were about 18 months and happily moved into there own beds at that time. They still sleep with us when they are sick. I really think it helps them recover from colds more quickly. We have also had bedtime at 8pm every single night since they were very small and it has made bedtime a very easy transition time for them. We always bathe, read, brush teeth and go to bed. By 8:15 the boys are in all tucked and quietly in bed. It's been nice. I am all for “co-sleeping” but am not allowed to recommend it to parents at work which is so frustrating. Both my boys slept with us until they were about 18 months and happily moved into there own beds at that time. They still sleep with us when they are sick. I really think it helps them recover from colds more quickly. We have also had bedtime at 8pm every single night since they were very small and it has made bedtime a very easy transition time for them. We always bathe, read, brush teeth and go to bed. By 8:15 the boys are in all tucked and quietly in bed. It’s been nice.

]]> By: Green Mamma http://www.greenmamma.org/blog/2008/10/10/attachment-parenting-month-and-sleep-sharing/comment-page-1/#comment-936 Green Mamma Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:28:52 +0000 http://www.greenmamma.org/blog/?p=1128#comment-936 Thank you for sharing your experiences as a mom of 3! Also, I appreciated the story of your neighbor who manages to parent well as a single parent; I often wonder how single parents are able to do it. It is challenging enough to parent one child with 2 parents! I am so grateful for my husband's help as well as how much he loves our daughter. Also, I am happy to hear that other moms are choosing to nurse beyond infancy; I hope to nurse my dd for as long as she would like. Nursing her to sleep does help most nights. Thank you for sharing your experiences as a mom of 3! Also, I appreciated the story of your neighbor who manages to parent well as a single parent; I often wonder how single parents are able to do it. It is challenging enough to parent one child with 2 parents! I am so grateful for my husband’s help as well as how much he loves our daughter.

Also, I am happy to hear that other moms are choosing to nurse beyond infancy; I hope to nurse my dd for as long as she would like. Nursing her to sleep does help most nights.

]]> By: Dilasari Hidayat http://www.greenmamma.org/blog/2008/10/10/attachment-parenting-month-and-sleep-sharing/comment-page-1/#comment-929 Dilasari Hidayat Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:16:18 +0000 http://www.greenmamma.org/blog/?p=1128#comment-929 I'm a mother of three in Jakarta (Indonesia). I faced similar problems when each of my kids was very little. Perhaps it's the impact of the modern life we are living in now that our children don't go to bed early and smoothly. Too much excited things going around in the house as well as outside the house. There is a little girl in my neighborhood who goes to bed easily at always around 8 p.m. Her family has a very simple life. Her grandmother open a small grocery store in their little house, meanwhile her mother is a single mother and has quit working because she has to take care of her only child. At around 8 p.m their house is already dark. They all wake up as early as the sun rises(around 5 am). From personal experience, I found that breastfeeding also helped. I brestfed my youngest till for 2.5 years. Cheers I’m a mother of three in Jakarta (Indonesia). I faced similar problems when each of my kids was very little.
Perhaps it’s the impact of the modern life we are living in now that our children don’t go to bed early and smoothly. Too much excited things going around in the house as well as outside the house.
There is a little girl in my neighborhood who goes to bed easily at always around 8 p.m. Her family has a very simple life. Her grandmother open a small grocery store in their little house, meanwhile her mother is a single mother and has quit working because she has to take care of her only child. At around 8 p.m their house is already dark. They all wake up as early as the sun rises(around 5 am).
From personal experience, I found that breastfeeding also helped. I brestfed my youngest till for 2.5 years.
Cheers

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