curlygirl
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We live in Indonesia now, after many years living in the US. Anyway, parenting style here is so very different from in the US. I don''t know if its exactly AP. Here are some examples. People don''t do CIO ever (it''s not a choice. People just don''t do it and dont know of it!). People loooooove formula. People spank. Nannies (live-in at that) are ubiquitous (ummm, I have one). Co-sleeping is rampant, but lots of the children sleep with the nannies. People babywear all the time, but with sucky carriers.
Lots of people practice EC to an extent. Solids start at a very very early age, and lots of kids at at 1.5-2 are still eating porridge type babyfood.
So overall, I think the belief is that babies are babies, and they need that constant companionship. ....but parents are not the sole caretakers.
Anyway, I was reading on a local forum. And 1 post made me smile. A mom of af a 2.5 year old girl is worried because she''s only drinking 400ml of formula a day. AND she''s worried because the girl is NOT waking up at night till 4.30 for more milk. So she asked the forum whether she should wake up her daughter more often to drink more milk. The answers range from don''t bother (and count your lucky stars) to a mother with a 3 year old who''s still giving her son milk at 8pm bedtime, 1am, and 4am!
I just find the whole thing hillarious.... .it is totally the opposite of what people would be asking on an online forum in the US.
This is quite common. I ask my nanny, and the common assumption here is that babies/toddlers wake up numerous times at night, drink milk, and go back to sleep.
So, just a story from a different corner of the world.