The Attachment Parenting Book

A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Child

America's foremost baby and childcare experts, William Sears, MD, and Martha Sears, RN, explain the benefits - to both you and your child - of connecting with your baby early.

Might 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 seven "Baby Bs" that form the basis of this popular parenting style:

• Bonding
• Breastfeeding
• Babywearing
• Belief in the language value of baby's cry
• Bedding close to baby
• Balance
• 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.

©2001 William Sears and Martha Sears (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Wish I had this book when I was pregnant

It is like a cheat sheet for the parent that doesn’t know what kind of help to ask for. Many things my husband and I instinctively do but it’s great to have the supporting arguments that we are doing the best thing for our child. I even encouraged all my mommy friends to listen or read this book

Prrfect

Very use full and understandable. I am happy I have listened this book. Very educative.

Very helpful and reassuring

This book is a great resource for anyone interested in gentle, respectful parenting that works. I recommend reading before baby arrives if possible!

Overall, wonderful.

As a parent who already practices “attachment parenting” (although I didn’t know that’s what it was called), I found this book very affirming of my choices. Dr Sears and his family get a fair amount of criticism for advocating this way of bringing up children because of how hard it is on mothers— and it is. What I appreciate about this book is the way Dr and Mrs Sears entreat fathers to take on tasks— more than perhaps they traditionally have in our culture— that involve them much more in baby care, hands-on parenting, and housework. What I found off-putting was the otherwise superb narrator’s unusual pronunciations: “parents’” as “parentses’,” “larynx” as “lar-nix.” I hate to be petty, but these errors diluted the authority that a book written by a doctor and nurse couple should convey.

A must read for all expecting parents

This amazing book features well presented information that will prepare any first time parents with a comprehensive foundation of how to care for their children in ways that are scientifically proven to set them up for a healthy and successful life.