I'd rather see public/private funds related to infant safety going to prenatal care, but that's not the point, I guess.
It's bunk. They don't know what causes SIDS.
Jimmy Akin, Rob Vischer and I have all had our way with this. One of Jimmy's commentors is an AAP employee who admits the evidence that led to this recent info is shaky.
In another change likely to stir discussion, the academy recommends that babies should be put to bed with pacifiers, because their use is associated with fewer SIDS deaths, and they don't impair the development of teeth or ability to breast-feed.
Pacifiers don't? Well, I guess they don't in /bizarro/ world. Everything else I read points to a correlation, at least regarding breast feeding.
And how screwed up as a society have we become that we put a 10 month old in day care to "learn to socialize"?
I agree with your gut reaction. I also have to laugh when I read that babies should be "put to sleep on their backs." My 2-year-old would have none of that from birth. Her nurses in the maternity ward came and told me that they had to put her to sleep on her stomach or else she wouldn't sleep. They tried to reassure me that they watched her closely, but I just figured I'd have to do the same, and I've been right for 2 years. As for pacifiers, yeah right! Good luck if they're not connected to Mommy.
I think Michelle's take at Jimmy Akin's sums it up the best: "Prevent Crib Death By Putting Babies In Cribs!"
Puh-leeze.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, all of you. I was feeling vaguely akin to Joan Crawford.
We started the co-sleeping thing accidentally--we were starting NFP, so at night he would get Madeleine and I'd nurse her sitting up in our bed. I fell asleep once and was horrified at myself when I woke with her still next to me.
She weaned at about 13 months and got her own toddler bed at around 18m. She was still joining us until around 3yrs, but now at 4 it is a rare thing.
With The Boy and Rachel, we just pretty much skipped the bassinet at night and did the co-sleeping thing. He's in his own bed like Big Sister now, too.
I suppose the results should be reassuring enough (3 healthy children), but it's still nice to have the support of other parents.
Last year, before Liam was born, we dutifully attended all the Child Care classes, to make sure we knew how to change a diaper, how to burp the baby, and how to clean his belly button with alcohol.
Then we got to the hospital, and they told us that alcohol was no longer recommended for cleaning belly buttons.
That's when we decided to take every new scientific report with a very large grain of salt. After a while, they all start sounding like something from Monty Python.
Oh, and about day care: Liam is 12 months, goes to day care, and is very sociable. But he also gets sick every time another kid wipes her boogers on him.
We started the co-sleeping thing accidentally--
My brother used the same exact line on my mom to describe his relationship with his girlfriend.
When it comes to children and baby things, my wife is on top of every report, article, and experiment result known to science. She should be an editor for some of those reviews. Then she cross-references, and verifies the data and controls before weeding out the stuff that seems like junk science. Why yes, she was a biochemist.
Me? When she gets done with what she figures and gives me the power point presentation, she asks my opinion.
I put down my beer and say, "Do this instead."
"Why?"
"It's what my mother did. And hey, I turned our fine, didn't I?"
"What's that face all about? What? What?"
Our pediatrician told us (while winking) "They sleep better on their tummies, as long as you're close by to watch them." Wonderful woman -- 70+ years old, maybe four-feet tall in heels, flaming red hair in a 12-inch-high beehive, drove a Corvette and rode a Harley on weekends.
As to pacifiers, first one took 'em and loved 'em (too much), next two wouldn't have anything to do with them, and dash-4 likes 'em just fine. All four breastfed. All four boys.
These things are mostly just fashion and usually the mere opinion of some self-described "expert." They change their advice every few years. I can't stand 'em (how many times have I felt guilty for not doing something the way someone else does?)
As far as possible I observe the philosophy of doing what seems sensible and works for me/the family/the child.
Did anyone note that the study was funded by baby furniture makes and formula manufacturers? No big surprise.
And has anyone actually *seen* the main pacifier study? So far we've only been able to find the abstract. Does it really exist?
Quoting an abstract in a meta-study is a little....careless.
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