Attachment parenting (AP) is a term coined by pediatrician and AP advocate Dr Sears. Dr. Sears says, "AP has been around as long as there have been mothers and babies. It is in fact, only recently that this style of parenting has needed a name at all, for it is basically the common sense parenting we all would do if left to our own healthy resources."
Being "AP" is basically listening to your instincts and your babies cues. This includes: nursing your baby on demand, extended nursing, as well as sleeping with, holding, wearing (in a sling) and nurturing your baby.
Gentle discipline falls within the scope of attachment parenting. Many also consider lifestyle choices such as cloth diapering, natural medicine, and informed parenting choices like homebirth, selective vaccines, no vaccines, and holistic medicine within the attachment parenting scope, though it is not always so. Attachment parenting (also called intuitive or instinctive parenting) varies person to person on true definition but one thing remains true, it is about the child not what’s easiest for the parent.
