Does attachment parenting leave out fathers?
“What can fathers do to build a special bond with their baby, when it is the wife who gets to do all the feeding? Does attachment parenting have to leave out the fathers?” Name Withheld Naomi Aldort replies: I admire fathers who ask this question because it comes from wanting to give more and from being very loving. Fathers are very important for the optimal growth and attachment of the child, and there are many ways for a father to build a bond with his child. Nursing is not one of them – but fathers are very much needed, as fathers. Can you imagine talking about sharing pregnancy with the father so he has this experience too? Nature didn’t make a mistake.The baby grows up in his mother’s body, he then “graduates” to the outer body, and then very gradually, he includes other people. The father, as the first and most present “other person” is the bridge, the support and the model. We need not change nature and give Dad a bottle in hand. Instead of complaining that he cannot be a mother
