{"id":332,"date":"2007-04-14T22:11:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T03:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=332"},"modified":"2007-04-14T22:11:52","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T03:11:52","slug":"ap-and-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2007\/04\/14\/ap-and-vaccinations\/","title":{"rendered":"AP and vaccinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAttachment parenting is a fancy name for what I would describe as a kind and natural approach to parenting. It means different things to different people, but generally \/ often includes extended breastfeeding, babywearing, co-sleeping, and responsiveness (not letting the baby cry in order to &ldquo;train&rdquo; it). All very sensible, and while I don&rsquo;t entirely live by the AP ideals, I agree with the general direction. (An AP mum wouldn&rsquo;t leave her baby in the care of strangers at 6 months, for sure.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAP parents are often also ecological parents so AP discussions frequently involve cloth nappies and organic foods etc.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut then, for some reason, some parents add another element: avoiding vaccinations. And that really baffles me. What does it have to do with attachment and closeness? How can you intentionally expose your baby to the risks of catching a serious but fully avoidable disease &ndash; and claim that it is good for your baby? Natural is not always necessarily better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attachment parenting is a fancy name for what I would describe as a kind and natural approach to parenting. It means different things to different people, but generally \/ often includes extended breastfeeding, babywearing, co-sleeping, and responsiveness (not letting the baby cry in order to &ldquo;train&rdquo; it). All very sensible, and while I don&rsquo;t entirely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}