Elaine, yes I am an attachment parent. From the time she was born she screamed if I wasn't holding her. She wouldn't let anyone else hold her either and her nan said that if her son had been like my daughter, she would have vowed to not have another. Her nan also said that there was no way in the world that SHE would have coped with my little precious.
I soon learned that a stroller wouldn't work because she screamed the place down. I couldn't do anything with her in arms, and so, I bought my first sling.
This is her the first time I put her in it, five weeks old;
Never in her life had she been so quiet, so content. She fell asleep almost straight away. From that day on the sling was almost never off my shoulder.
A few more sling pics;
Not in it, but at a wedding, still wearing it;
And lastly, one of my very favourite photos of her in it. She was about five months old here, and I was in the middle of vacuuming. My screaming, difficult baby was so content in the sling, that she even slept through the noisy old vacuum.
When she got bigger and too heavy for the sling, I got a mei tai from
Little Leila Creations It was padded and fit over both shoulders and so distributed the weight better, hurt me less. It's still in use today and my two year old is now 33lb.
ETA; Just looking at and posting those photos here, I am crying! She was such a precious little thing, and so happy when she was in her sling-I hate to think how I would have coped and what child she would have turned into without it.