Attachment parenting Quote by Ingrid Bauer

“In most traditional societies babies and mothers have a period of time to establish breastfeeding. Techniques have been learned unconsciously at an early age…

— Gabrielle Palmer

In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying…

— Alison Gopnik

Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all…

— Melvin Konner

Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around severalmothers, all…

— Melvin Konner

I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn't; and that's not to say that there aren't many…

— Rumaan Alam

There's a culture in orphanages that children are eager to escape from, and it's a culture of being reared as a group and not…

— Melissa Fay Greene

Attachment parenting is this theory that if you wear your baby around and you sleep with your baby and you breast-feed for a long…

— Sarah Ruhl

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and…

— Benjamin Spock

“A mother who wants to hold her baby most of the time is judged eccentric and often accused of ‘spoiling’ him. The separation of…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In societies where babies are nurtured, not left to cry, and are breastfed whenever they ask, not only are those babies more content and…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Some babies are less secure in the presence of strangers and that is when they need the breast most, yet in industrialised society this…

— Gabrielle Palmer

For our maternal mothers the last months of pregnancy and the first months following delivery are generally an exhausting and a challenging time. With…

— Danny Santagato