Category: Night Time Parenting
Retaking The Joys Of Motherhood
| February 6, 2013 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Consistent Care, Motherhood, Night Time Parenting, On Mama's Mind |
I read a paragraph from Carlos Gonzalez’s book Kiss Me! (US Link)*recently that has stayed with me all week and has gone round and round in my head. Speaking about taboos in modern society, he talks of how the subjects of sex and promiscuity or homosexuality are no longer taboo as they were when our parents…
Co-Sleeping and Breastfeeding
| January 25, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Child Safety, Cosleeping, Night Time Parenting |
A reader asked me to write about co-sleeping and breastfeeding. Although this is something we’ve been doing since around one and a half hours after Ameli’s birth – she was born at 4.40am, we were asleep in our bed by six – it’s still a hard topic to write about because I’ve never really thought…
Cry It Out and Sleep Training
| August 31, 2010 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Night Time Parenting |
I am a member of the ‘cry-it-out’ generation. When my daughter, Ameli, was just a few days old, my mother suggested we leave her to cry for twenty minutes and she would sleep better. If she was still crying after twenty minutes, we could go in comfort her, and then start again. I sat in…
A Bad Day’s Mothering
| January 6, 2010 | Posted by Luschka under Alternative Medicines and Remedies, Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Night Time Parenting, On Mama's Mind |
I know everyone has them. Those days where you just feel like nothing youre doing is right. When you suspect, in the back of your frazzled mind, that you might be ruining your poor, sweet, crying child, for ever.
I know everyone has them. Those days where you just feel like nothing youre doing is right. When you suspect, in the back of your frazzled mind, that you might be ruining your poor, sweet, crying child, for ever.
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