I’m thinking of starting my own movement (yet to be named) where you pay attention to yourself and your own darn kids instead of those around you and you just do whatever works for you and your child/children while supporting the diverse yet equally effective efforts of the mommies around you. So you get full points from me!

Mommies who are hellbent on comparisons and competition can bite it.

I breastfeed on demand, someting that took some considerable effort to make work. This often means I get very fragmented sleep because I get up multiple times a night. I cloth diaper. I respond to each and every cry no matter what I may be doing. “Cry it out” does not happen in my house.

I could go on. My point, however, wasn’t that the AP philosophy is bad, but that people end up wondering whether they “count” as “natural” parents if they couldn’t breastfeed, or had a c-section, or needed ART, or don’t co-sleep, or have a bad back and can’t baby-wear. You can always make the definition of what it takes to be a good mother more and more stringent.

Your posts may be funny and sarcastic but they are really hypocritical.
In what way are they hypocritical?

BTW, you forgot about making your own baby food with produce from your organic garden. I know you won’t want to do that until your children are ready for solids at approximately age four, but I’m sure you’re bearing it in mind for then .

Loved your post, btw.

Well played!