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The Attachment Parenting Book : A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby Paperback – August 7, 2001
Martha Sears RN (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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Would you and your baby both sleep better if you shared a bed? How old is too old for breastfeeding? What is a father's role in nurturing a newborn? How does early attachment foster a child's eventual independence?
Dr. Bill and Martha Sears -- the doctor-and-nurse, husband-and-wife team who coined the term "attachment parenting" -- answer these and many more questions in this practical, inspiring guide. Attachment parenting is a style of parenting that encourages a strong early attachment, and advocates parental responsiveness to babies' dependency needs.
The Attachment Parenting Book clearly explains the six "Baby B's" that form the basis of this popular parenting style: Bonding, Breastfeeding, Babywearing, Bedding close to baby, Belief in the language value of baby's cry, and Beware of baby trainers. Here's all the information you need to achieve your most important goals as a new parent: to know your child, to help your child feel right, and to enjoy parenting.
- Print length224 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLittle, Brown Spark
- Publication dateAugust 7, 2001
- Dimensions7.38 x 0.63 x 9.25 inches
- ISBN-100316778095
- ISBN-13978-0316778091
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Dr. Sears was trained at Harvard Medical School's Children's Hospital and Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, the largest children's hospital in the world. He has practiced pediatrics for nearly 50 years. Together, the Searses have authored more than 40 pediatrics books.
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- Publisher : Little, Brown Spark; 1st edition (August 7, 2001)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0316778095
- ISBN-13 : 978-0316778091
- Item Weight : 10.7 ounces
- Dimensions : 7.38 x 0.63 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #126,362 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #319 in Fatherhood (Books)
- #519 in Baby & Toddler Parenting
- #630 in Motherhood (Books)
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About the authors
William Sears, M.D., received his pediatric training at Harvard Medical School's Children's Hospital and Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. He has practiced as a pediatrician for more than thirty years. Martha Sears is a registered nurse, childbirth educator, and breastfeeding consultant. The Searses are the parents of eight children. Drs. Robert and James Sears are both board-certified pediatricians at the Sears Family Pediatric Practice in San Clemente, California. All four authors live in southern California. More information about the Searses can be found at www.SearsParenting.com and www.AskDrSears.com.
Martha Sears is a registered nurse, former childbirth educator, La Leche League leader, and lactation consultant. With renowned pediatrician, William Sears, MD, Martha is the coauthor of more than 25 parenting books, drawing on her experience with their eight children. She contributes to the content of AskDrSears.com and is noted for her advice on how to handle the most common problems facing today’s mothers with their changing lifestyles.
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“To your baby, you are the best mother.”

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2020
“To your baby, you are the best mother.”

Dr. Sear offer many great advice in this book & I used it in those days that my kids were babies age. We co-sleep & I nurse my kids. My baby was nurse until she almost 3. They are all very independent now & have their own rooms, which they took care really well. I almost NEVER let my babies cry & always pick them up to comfort them, my kids are great sleepers now, all we do at night is tuck them in with good night kisses, they wake up to use the rest room by themselves. Every once in a while, we allow them to sleep in our beds & that is a special treat.
Except travelling for work, my husband & I NEVER take a vacation without the kids. We rather travel with other family friends so we have the adults companies & the kids have friends their ages to. We enjoy our kids companies & they love ours.
If you don't use all the advice in this book, you can still benefit from reading it & maybe apply some
My mom use the "tough love" method on me . I turn out fine but I always secretly wish she was more gentle with me.
So there is no right or wrong, just practice what you believe in your loving heart & hopefully we will raise the next generation of great human, loving & giving :-)
1. Give your child unlimited attention.
Too much attention is not good for any child. Especially if you plan to have a second child. Your first will not be able to self sooth and understand why now he does not get all of your attention and will dislike their sibling.
2. Cosleep:
Don’t cosleep if you want a healthy marriage. Cosleeping also makes your child less able to self soothe. It may sound terrible to hear your baby cry, but they will eventually learn to self soothe which is a much healthier long term goal.
3. Baby wearing.
Don’t wear your baby too much unless you want to but don’t feel you have too. They will get use to it and your back will pay the price in the future.
4. Breastfeeding
Yes, there are benefits, but don’t stress so much if you are unable to breastfeed. Your child on formula will be healthier with a stress free mom.
I read this book back in 2012 and regret following the advice given. My oldest (age 9) can not self regulate and still insists on sleeping with me.
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The sections are based around the 7 Baby Bs:
1) Birth Bonding: how the beginnings affect early attachment.
2) Breastfeeding: how it helps in getting to know your baby, what they call 'Baby Reading'.
3) Baby Wearing: research clearly shows how children who are carried fuss less and they are so content that they spend a lot of time in quiet alertness, learning a lot about their environment. They just seem so much calmer too.
4) Bed Sharing: the benefits of bed sharing for mothers and babies. The fact is that most babies sleep best when they are close to their parents. Personally, we have co-slept with our baby since I fell asleep breastfeeding one night and realised the next morning how well we had all slept! Sears is again non-judgmental about whichever way you decide to sleep.
5) Belief in baby's cries: "a baby's cry is a baby's language" ie they communicate through crying - they have different cries for different emotions, which you pick up the more time you spend with your baby. Babies don't cry to manipulate, they cry to alert you to their needs. "The more sensitively you respond, the more baby learns to trust his parents and his ability to communicate".
6) Balance and Boundaries: about balancing your own needs with those of your baby and the rest of your family. Because it's extremely important to not "neglect your own needs and those of your marriage"
7) Beware of baby trainers: "This restrained style of baby care, which we dub baby training is based upon the misguided assumptions that babies cry to manipulate, not to communicate, and that a baby's cry is an inconvenient habit that must be broken to help baby fit more conveniently into an adult environment...a distance can develop between baby and parent - just the opposite of what happens with attachment parenting"
The overall theme of the book is for you to learn to rely on your own instincts and decide for yourself how best to parent your own child.
When reading this book, I realised that I'd been parenting the exact same way without realising there was a name for what I did! To me, I was just doing what naturally came to me. Attachment parenting is a natural way to parent, and this book helps to explain it in detail in a helpful way, without coming across as patronising or judgmental. It makes me want to get all their other parenting books and also buy their books for other mummies I know!

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If I can add one word of criticism, it would be about baby carrying. The authors can't say enough good things about it but my daughter is a living proof that not every baby loves being in a baby carrier. When she was 1 - 2 months old she was screaming her head off regardless of being carried or laid down to bed. Now at the age of 5 months she does accept it but doesn't love it and she can stay calm only as long as I keep on moving. The story presented by the authors about sitting in a restaurant and enjoying a dinner with a baby in a sling sounds like a fairy tale to me.
However my experience only confirms the overall message from the book: every baby comes into this world with its own personality and our job is to adjust our world to this little person, not the other way around.

