About

Sonya S. Fehér is stay-at-home-mama to Cavanaugh True Henry. She found out she was an attachment parent when she and Cavanaugh were invited to a playgroup full of AP families. Loath to admit she had no idea what AP was, she went home and Googled it. Sure enough, her new friends were right. Since then, she has become a co-leader of the South Austin chapter of Attachment Parenting International, a contributing editor for API Speaks, and a columnist for The Attached Family.

Pre-parenthood, Sonya ran a Sylvan Learning Center, earned her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry), taught high school English, and competed in and organized poetry slams.  She and her husband Mike got married nine years after they met at a poetry reading where he was the host and she signed up to read in the open mic.

Four years after the wedding, their son was born by scheduled c-section at 12:27 p.m. because Sonya refused the 6 a.m. appointment at the hospital. If she couldn’t go through labor, at least she wasn’t going to wake up before dawn.

As a teenager, Sonya was diagnosed with kidney disease and told she might never be able to have children. She has had five pregnancies and one son, who will be her only child. Sonya was treated for generalized anxiety disorder throughout her pregnancy, developed pre-eclampsia, and was on bedrest for the last five weeks before Cavanaugh was born. Parenthood was and continues to be a joy and surprise.

She blogs about parenting at mamaTRUE: parenting as practice and writing at In My Wrong Mind. You can contact her at mamatrue (at) sonyafeher (dot) com.