Attachment parents

[Cosmogirl]

Hi,

I was just curious of parents who would consider that they follow an 'attachment parenting' style/approach, what was your age gap between children? I have a DD almost 2 and am feeling it is still too soon to be thinking about another baby. I just wondered if other AP parents left bigger gaps between sibs and why. A lot of mums I know seem to be preg with no 2 at the moment who have a DC the age of mine.............Not really sure what to feel. I am having some broody feelings since stopping bfing at Christmas but not sure if I will 'know' when the right time is for our family...

most ap parents I know have 3-4 yr age gaps, for exactly the reasons you mention. focussing on each baby until they feel they can cope with the arrival of a sibling basically

I am 22 weeks pg and have a 2.4 yr old ds.

I kind of fell into AP-ing as well. Am still bf-ing altho' ds seems to be weaning. I did choose to stop the night feeds at 16mo but ds took it very well. I co-sleep and am expecting to continue after the baby arrives but want to get a king size mattress to accomodate all!!

Am going to research slings and hope to parent this baby as much like we did with ds as poss - fingers crossed!

I have an (unplanned) 17 month age gap between my two and I AP-ed both my DCS. I tandem fed for a month until DD1 self weaned, slung one one my back and one on front until DD1 climbed down and still co-sleep with both DDs (2 and 1 now). So it is possible!

Hi, I have a 30 month age gap between my DSs. My periods began when 1 st DS was 18 months old due to still breastfeeding, so started trying then. First DS was out of nappies and understood that he was getting a sibling , which made everything easier.

Mine are 2.9 apart, I found APing really helpful. I'm still tandem nursing 2 years on, I used to sling them both and they both still co-sleep.I gently encouraged DD1 to night wean when DD2 was born by shortening feeds until she decided it wasn't worth waking up.

I particularly found tandem feeding really useful, DD1 loved that 'the baby brought my milk back' and that it was something she could do with her sister.