You are doing what's right for your child, which is the best love of all. There are definite pros and cons to each parenting style. Growing up in the Philippines and then here in the US, my parents also believed in attachment parenting and they used cloth diapers on my siblings and me. But as an American now, married to another American, my dh and I believe in children having their own spaces and us parents having time for ourselves. One of my filipina aunts always believed that co-sleeping makes for "good" kids. There's probably truth in that! In fact, some of my aunt's now-adult children (my cousins) still co-sleep with their kids - and they're in their teens!
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Originally Posted by britjojo
No, and it is unfortunately against my parenting style. We cloth diaper, we co-sleep (and the co-sleeping cannot stop simply because there is no where else for her to sleep), we partake of natural family living and attachment parenting. I don't believe that it would do either of us any good for me to leave her crying till she threw up every night (and believe me that is what happens when she cries for more than a few minutes and has done since she was a newborn). It would just create more mess, insecurity, work for me, and resentment and ill feeling between the two of us.
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