Holiday Gift Ideas with an Attachment Parenting Flair

Breast is Best Breastfeeding Clothes and Baby Slings Keep the Nursing Baby Close to Mom’s Heart and Breast This Holiday Season and All Year Long

Pickering, Ontario, December 2, 2005 – Looking for the perfect holiday gift that will make the nursing mom and baby smile while it strengthens the bond between them? Unsure of how to include fathers in the mother-child dyad this holiday season? Canada-based Breast Is Best features matching breastfeeding pajamas and baby slings that facilitate attachment parenting and make great holiday gifts.

Attachment parenting, a phrase coined by world-renowned child expert and pediatrician Dr. William Sears, refers to a unique way of caring for children that strengthens the emotional bonds between parents and child. Dr. Sears’ Seven Tools of Attachment Parenting calls breastfeeding and babywearing important ways for parent and child to bond together. Breastfeeding allows a mother to get to know her baby while providing her infant with brain-building nutrients. Babywearing helps parents be more sensitive to their baby’s needs because physical proximity promotes understanding.

Doug and Niki Leslie, owners of Breast Is Best, have practiced attachment parenting for over eleven years. As advocates of breastfeeding and babywearing, they decided to create a family-owned business that would assist other parents in practicing attachment parenting. They created their own line of stylish nursing clothes to make nursing fashionable as well as affordable. For the holiday season, Breast Is Best has created a page on their website that features gift ideas that acknowledge the importance of attachment parenting in building families all year long.

Their All Our Best Breastfeeding Gift Set, complete with matching 100% cotton sleepshirt for mom and sleepgown and cap ensemble for baby packaged in a ribboned gift box, accents the beauty of the mother-child bond strengthened through breastfeeding. Co-owner Niki Leslie comments, “The memories I cherish the most as a mother are the times spent nursing. I created the All Our Best Gift Set to add a touch of elegance to the wonderful breastfeeding memories that all mothers share. The matchng pajamas serve as tangible mementos of those special times.” The All Our Best Breastfeeding Gift Set retails for US$42.00/CAN$52.00 and is available at www.breast-is-best.com.

Dad can get into attachment parenting, too, by practicing babywearing. “Babywearing has allowed me to participate in attachment parenting. I developed physical and emotional closeness with my children because of the baby sling I used for several years,” states Breast Is Best Co-owner, Doug Leslie. Breast Is Best offers three styles of baby slings and carriers, the CXD Unpadded (US$46/CAN$55) and Heart to Heart Padded (US$45/CAN$59) baby slings, and the Hippychick baby carrier (US$58/CAN$74) available at www.breast-is-best.com.

Breast Is Best Clothing for Nursing Mothers is celebrating its eleventh year in business, offering its own line of affordable, yet stylish, nursing wear. They also carry high-quality breast pumps and baby slings. During the holiday season, Breast Is Best is offering free gift wrapping on any of the products on its Holiday Gift Page. Visit them at www.breast-is-best.com or call toll-free 1-877-837-5439.

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