{"id":850,"date":"2003-10-20T17:06:46","date_gmt":"2003-10-20T22:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=850"},"modified":"2003-10-20T17:06:46","modified_gmt":"2003-10-20T22:06:46","slug":"what-is-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/10\/what-is-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"What is AP?"},"content":{"rendered":"

…asks Elinor, in our comments box below.
\nThe short answer: “AP” stands for “attachment parenting.”
\n\"Pansy
\nPansy and Gorbulas<\/i>
\nAnd the long answer:
\nAttachment parenting <\/a>is an approach to raising infants and young children that places a strong emphasis on responding to a baby’s needs and fostering a strong, trusting bond between the baby and his parents. Dr. William Sears and his wife Martha (the parents of eight children) are probably AP’s most famous faces, but I actually started learning about the AP approach through the writing of Sheila Kippley of the Couple to Couple League.<\/a> The La Leche League has been advocating this approach for years. There’s also some Catholic therapist guy out there with a blog<\/a> who has written a book <\/a>and other articles that include information on the AP approach, which he aptly describes as “natural law parenting.”
\nThe premise of attachment parenting is that tiny infants need their parents, especially their mothers. (Yes, it does seem strange that we need a parenting book to tell us this, but these are the crazy times we live in….) It rejects the idea that babies cry to “manipulate” their parents.
\nSome highlights of attachment parenting include breastfeeding “on demand” (i.e., feeding the baby when he’s hungry, not just when you think he should be hungry), holding and cuddling the baby when he cries (instead of leaving him to “cry it out”), using a sling or other babywearing gizmo, and sharing sleep.
\nSt. Bloggers who are interested in the AP approach include Alicia the midwife,<\/a> Davey’s mommy<\/a> and daddy<\/a>, Dinka<\/a>, M’Lynn<\/a>, the Popcaks<\/a>, Sparki<\/a>,and Smockmomma<\/a> (can’t speak for the other Summas yet.) (This list was right off the top of my head; apologies in advance to anyone who should be on the list and isn’t!)
\nMothering with Grace<\/a> is a website for Catholic moms interested in AP.
\nUPDATE:<\/b> Add Bobbi<\/a> to the list of AP St Blogger’s. She also has a list of AP links.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…asks Elinor, in our comments box below. The short answer: “AP” stands for “attachment parenting.” Pansy and Gorbulas And the long answer: Attachment parenting is an approach to raising infants and young children that places a strong emphasis on responding to a baby’s needs and fostering a strong, trusting bond between the baby and his… Continue reading What is AP?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting-and-family-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}