API of East Portland, Oregon:

Lending Libraries

Our lending libraries give you a chance to try out a book or a sling without having to purchase it for your own collection. In our sling library, we will try to offer some of the brand-names or types that you may be considering buying. (Or you may just need a particular sling for a brief period, such as when you are traveling.) Our libraries are just getting started—if you have any slings or books that you no longer need, please consider donating them to the group. To check out an item, just come to a meeting—you do not need to be a member of API to use the libraries.

Books:

· Bumgarner, Norma Jane. Mothering Your Nursing Toddler. 1994.

· Cohen, Lawrence J. Playful Parenting. 2002.

· Kohn, Alfie. Unconditional Parenting. 2005.

· Harper, Barbara, RN. Gentle Birth Choices. 1994.

· Pantley, Elizabeth. The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night. 2002.

· Pipher, Mary. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. 1994.

· Sears, William, MD, Robert Sears, MD, James Sears, MD, and Martha Sears, RN. The Baby Sleep Book. 2005.

· Sears, William, MD, and Martha Sears, RN. The Attachment Parenting Book.. 2001.

· Sears, William, MD, and Martha Sears, RN. The Birth Book. 1994

· Sears, William, MD, and Martha Sears, RN. The Discipline Book: How to Have a Better-Behaved Child From Birth to Age Ten. 1995.

· Sears, William, MD. Nighttime Parenting. 1999.

Slings and other soft carriers:

· Taylor Made ring sling, size medium, khaki, organic cotton

· Taylor Made ring sling, size medium, khaki, solarveil

For further information about the group, please contact the Group Leader, Sara.