I'm pretty new here--I found this place searching for a new AP board while MDC (Mothering) is down.

My name is Mary, I'm a 21 year old SAHM to my 7 month old ds. I breastfeed, no vax, no circ, part-time co-sleep, and part-time cloth diaper.

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Hello....I'm Kristy, mommy to my almost 15month old son Payton Emery.
We breastfeed, cloth diaper, sling, and co-sleep. Payton is not circ'd, but he is vax'd. I also made all his baby food, and when he wasn't eating my stuff, I fed only all organic. We also are a "mostly" all organic family now that he's on solids.

Hi, I'm Laura, AP mom to Daniel (3 1/2) and Noah (21 months) I was somewhat AP when Daniel was born; I breastfed him (till he self-weaned) and co-slept and didn't let him CIO, but that's about it, he was in sposies, and I had him circ'ed because my husband wanted it (which broke my heart, but I really wasn't educated about it and just assumed it was cleaner, etc.). The more I learned about AP though, the more I practiced it so I was much more AP with Noah than I was at first with Daniel. Noah was also breastfed until he self-weaned (2 months ago ) and coslept till very recently. When he was little, I slung him a lot and we still do when we are out and about. Noah is not circ'ed and he is cloth diapered (daniel is PT). Daniel had most of his vaxes until about 1 1/2 when he had a bad reaction from one, and I stopped. Noah is not vaxed at all yet, and I'm still debating about starting, selectively, when he turns two or not doing them at all. I also plan on homeschooling when the kids are older.

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AP CD FF co sleeping,sling wearing, silent birthing, tree huggin mama to my 6 month old Izzy.

I just rejoined these boards. I was on the Due in June 2003 (aka Junes Jewels) back when these boards were still part of epregnancy.com! Anyway after a hospital birth (Bradley and Hypnobirthing w/ a midwife and doula) , I went very AP and didn't feel I fit in anymore w/ those moms. Now I've gotten even crunchier and am so happy to see more APers on these boards. So I joined up again!

I need more boards like I need a hole in my head! I'm the moderator of a yahoo group APChicagoSouth. So if you're in the area, please check us out.

BTW, my name is Christine. I'm 33. DH is Ron, 34. We have one DD, Camilla Antionette (Cami) who will be 2 in 13 days! We still bf'd, co-sleep, selectively vax, plan to homeschool (starting w/preschool in the fall), respond to her needs, seek alternative/natural/homeopathic remedies and I am ADDICTED to baby carriers.

That's all for now. Christine

Hi, Im not you're typical ap mama, though I just got the book on it. I'm 21, and my DS was exclusively bf for 3 weeks until we had a terrible bout with thrush that gave him a shallow suck and depleated my milk supply to almost non-existance. We he's bottle-nursed after he's emptied what's in my breast and gets ebm or formula, we feed on demand. I stand by my descion to use disposable diapers and to do all vax. We will use GD, we only co-sleep during daytime naps as my DH is too sound of a sleeper to safely do so at night, in addition to DS' sleep apnea. http://http://www.bebesounds.com/pro...escription.asp the monitor is well worth looking into if you have a family history of sleep apnea, sids or are just a parinod momma... if it ever goes off you'll be glad you had one. My son had stopped breathing for more than 20 seconds when the monitor went off and it took me at least another 15-20 to get to him, where he still wasnt breathing and had to be woken up before he started to breath... The crib monitor is a god send and could not sleep soundly without it.

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Hi! I'm Erin, 22, and an AP mom to Clara. I practice breastfeeding (possibly extended), co-sleeping, cloth diapering, no CIO, babywearing, delaying solids (and when I introduce solids they will be all homemade and organic), and using gentle discipline.

Hello :-) My name is Jennifer. We are a cloth diapering, breastfeeding, co-sleeping, baby wearing, attatchment parenting family! I have 3 kids but do hope to be able to add to our family soon

Hi everyone! I'm new here.

I have a 9 1/2 month old DS, born December of last year. We had an awesome waterbirth attended by midwives. We've been breastfeeding, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, cloth diapering since the day he was born. I don't vax, and DS wasn't circ'd. I'm also delaying solids - we're slowly starting to introduce them.
I believe in child-led weaning.

Nice meeting all of you!

Me next, me next!

I'm Jennifer, mom to Emmaline who is 4 and Catie who is about 7.5 months. We are the usual AP/Natural Family Living suspects....cloth diapering, sling wearing (my current favorite is a Mei Tai from Cat Bird Baby), exclusive and extended nursing, natural birthing, no spanking, etc.

Looking forward to learning with you ladies!

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Hi, I'm Erin. I have a 6 month old daughter.

We breastfeed (and will probably be extended), co-sleep, sling, use cloth, we don't CIO, will use gentle discipline, just started solids a couple days ago and only feed her homemade organic babyfood. She will also be raised vegetarian like us.

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Erin

Too bad there is not more action on this board.


I'm Skyla. I am a SAHM of 4. I am still breastfeeding our 2 yr old and we are a co-sleeping, GD, no CIO, natural type of family.

Hope to meet some great women here.

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hi, my name's steph and i'm new to ap and this forum. my family is a work in progress... my three-year old daughter lily and i have been living with my fiance, jacob (not her biological dad) for a year now and he and i are doing our best as young parents - 22 and 23 yrs old - to figure it all out. i just started reading "the natural child" by jan hunt and it makes 100 times more sense than most of the advice i've been given about parenting.
we were already hippies in training before ap, we buy organic when we can, try to conserve and play in the forest a lot i've been into menstrual activism lately, too (divacups are freakin' awesome!) and i'm hoping to get into birthingway college in a couple of years to study midwifery.

I'm Michelle, I have one little guy, Christian, who's 6 months, and I'm about 20 weeks along with our second. Definite surprise this time, but we've lost a baby before (in 2003) so we'll take whatever we get! Anyways, I've been BF my son since he was born, he doesn't eat many solids still, so it's mostly milk, and I'm planning on not really weaning him when his baby sister is born, I would like to tandem nurse them both. He sleeps in our bed, sometimes the side car attatchment, but mostly our bed, we do use disposables, but everything else we do, the no CIO, etc. is more AP style. So I'd call myself 99.9% AP mama. Hope to meet you all soon, hope the board gets more active, it would be fun to do more chatting with you all.
Thanks.

New here, just checking in...looks like the board may have moved? I'm Jodi, I have one baby, she's 4 months tomorrow (Isabella). I'd love to know if there's another area for AP moms and dads now...

Hi there,
I just realized there was an AP board here - now that I have found you...where is everybody????

Hi everyone!
Nice to meet all of you!

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Hi!! I'm Brenda, mother to 4. Chris is 16, Mikayla 10, JJ is 4 and my Elias is 6 mos old. I became a sahm when i had Elias. We babywear, cosleep, breastfeed (never had a drop of formula) and since he started solids all his food has been homemade. We also started cloth diapering. My baby boy is intact and non vaxed as well..nice to meet you all!

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hey, I have only posted here off and on over the years, last time over a year ago I got trolled! anyway I thought I better re introduce myself .... My name is Amanda I am from Northenr Ireland, I have 4 children, Ashley 10, Ellis 3, Hollie 4, and Summer 1. I am still breast feeding Summer I delayed her solids for almost a year, I breast fed all the other children too. I cloth diaper sometimes, I used to more but it got out of hand now the winter and rain is here. I DO vaccinate. I am about to start home educating my youngest three children. We make all our own foods from scratch and tend not to buy processed foods very often apart from the odd tin heinz soup! My friends say I am an earth mother but I just do what feels right.

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