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The cover of the new edition of Time magazine features a woman breastfeeding a nearly 4-year-old child -- and the reaction has lit up the mommy blogs. We look at the philosophy and controversy of attachment parenting.
Dave Iverson
 (Time magazine)

The cover of the new edition of Time magazine features a woman breastfeeding a nearly 4-year-old child — and the reaction has lit up the mommy blogs. We look at the philosophy and controversy of attachment parenting.

The attachment parenting movement encourages breastfeeding — sometimes for years — co-sleeping and wearing babies in slings. The popularity of attachment parenting in some communities has other women complaining that the high expectations of sacrifice for mothers are a backward step for feminism.

Guests:

Catherine Connors, director of blogs and social media for Babble, a parenting blog site and author of the blog "Her Bad Mother"

Lauren Scout, parenting educator teaching newborn care classes using the attachment parenting approach at Natural Resources, a birth parenting resource center in San Francisco

Claire Dederer, author of "POSER: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses" and mother of two

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