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Greetings!
Welcome to the first issue of API Links, the new
and improved monthly newsletter for Attachment
Parenting International! This year promises to be an
exciting year for API, and every issue of API
Links will ensure that you'll be kept in the loop as
to all the happenings at headquarters and beyond.
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Featured family: Nebraska miracle
One morning in June, nearly three months before her
due date, Rita Brhel woke up in a pool of
blood at her home in northeast Nebraska. After a
scary two-hour ambulance ride and four days of
hospitalized bedrest, Rita gave birth to a 3 1/2-pound
baby girl.
Rachel was born with Respiratory Distress Syndrome
and suffered a number of other health conditions,
from apnea and advanced jaundice to retinopathy of
the eyes and heartbeat irregularities. She spent 50
days in the hospital, coming home three weeks before
her original due date. Today, Rachel is a very healthy,
happy 20-pounder with only a couple lasting effects
from her prematurity.
Rita and her husband, Mike, credit much of their
daughter's miraculous recovery to Attachment
Parenting. It began when they were introduced to
Kangaroo Care and pumping breastmilk in the
hospital. Once they were home, they fully embraced
Attachment Parenting and now enjoy an intense
emotional bond within the entire family.
Click here for the full story from Rita's perspective
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The mission of Attachment Parenting International
(API) is to promote parenting practices that create
strong, healthy emotional bonds between children
and their parents. These practices nurture and fulfill
a child's need for trust, empathy and affection,
providing a lifelong foundation for healthy, enduring
relationships.
Through education, support, advocacy and
research, API seeks to strengthen families and
increase awareness of the importance of secure
attachment, ultimately helping to reduce or prevent
child abuse, behavioral disorders, criminal acts and
other serious social problems.
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With a renewed push to move forward with the
organization, API is opening 2007 with major changes
in its leadership ranks. It is exciting to think of all the
positive changes soon to take place in API, especially
with the passion and expertise of the people leading
this organization.
How many times have you berated yourself for not
being “AP enough?” Do you find yourself scrawling
WWTSD (What Would the Sears’ Do?) on your wrist?
API welcomes Bela Baby as the first participant in our
retail affiliate program.
