Posted on 10/25/2016 9:17:48 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The American Academy of Pediatrics is calling for infants to be kept in their parents’ bedroom at night for six months to a year to reduce the risk of sleep-related death.
The new recommendations say babies should sleep on a separate surface, in a crib or bassinet, and never on something soft. The guidelines say babies should sleep in the same room as their parents, preferably until they’re a year old.
The nation’s most influential pediatricians’ group says it updated its safe-sleep guidance because of studies suggesting that room-sharing reduces the risk of sudden infant death syndrome by as much as 50 percent. …
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Pussification... dependency literally from the cradle to the grave!
Pediatrician, seeking applause and fame and publication. Yes.
Parents seeking privacy and sleep. No.
I wonder what our ancestors did when they lived in the wird?
A lot of times our new fangled ideas just go against our hardwired nature.
Individual is dead.
It takes a village.
Society is about domestication.
Culture is king.
Emotional intelligence.
Social intelligence.
“I wonder what our ancestors did when they lived in the wird?”
They threw away their babies if they displayed “strange” or weak behavior. If they survived (and they were first born males), they were sacrificed to the gods.
Actually, none of those have changed. Babies are aborted if they display retardism or any disability. And they are sacrificed, at ever higher rate, at the alter of feminism and convenience.
Yet, this group of the nation’s most influential pediatricians cannot explain what causes Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Possibly, but this seems to go against the left’s doctrine of “abolition of the family” somewhat. And I have to compare this to Luke 11:7 too.
Our ancestors were never “in the wild”. Only those that consciously chose to be uncivilized.
If you’re boob feeding it sure helps no doubt
Bassinet by th bed
But best thing for SIDS is a hard pillow bracket to keep them on their back first 6-9 months
What the Flippin' Heck?
We're talking about infants here.
Parental physical closeness (specifically, maternal, and most especially at nighttime) is a matter of life or death for little babies.
People have known this and lived by it, forever. It's only recently --- 10 minutes ago on the historic scale --- that mothers began unnaturally distancing themselves, emotionally and physically, from their little babies --- with uniformly bad results.
Which is what was wanted, I think.
You all must be men. LOL. The only way I could get any sleep was to have the baby next to me, and no bottle feeding. We used a crib next to our bed with one side rail removed. It worked well and kept baby out of our bed for the most part. I didn’t have to wander the house when baby cried.
They moved out of the room well before toddlerhood! This was for my infant children.
I said nothing about this move by the AAP, actually.
I did cite Luke 11:7 in this thread at least once.
It's not that it takes a "village". It takes a mother. And a father.
Looking at our self-starter, self-directed, emotionally balanced, morally-centered, top-evaluated USMC jet aviator son, we're by-God satisfied with the results.
A lot of times our new fangled ideas just go against our hardwired nature.
Exactly. An infant wailing when it is alone is a protective response to abandonment. We are still wired as we were 20,000 years ago. A child left alone would be picked off by predators.
I did the same thing. Had a large cradle my dad had made right by the bed.
We had the first four in our room in a bassinet for the first two months or so. Moved them into their own room once they started sleeping through the night. Our fifth was born early and had to be in a Danny sling in the crib which was in our room. With such a busy household there never seemed to be a good time to disassemble then reassemble the crib until he was around one. By the sixth child there were no rooms left for the baby to be in alone and undisturbed so she was in a pack and play in our room for about a year.
All that to say this: the youngest kids slept better and woke up less in our room than the older kids did in their own rooms. I assume for much of human history only the wealthy had enough rooms to separate everyone for sleeping. The one room cabins of the pioneers were tiny and they survived. Having your baby in your room doesn’t spoil the kid in and of itself. It made life with a baby easier for me
"It's splendid, dedicated mothering --- attachment mothering --- in other words, normal mothering --- which results in infants' needs being met fully at the appropriate developmental stage; which results in the normal confident individuation of the pre-pubescent child; which results in the development of non-needy non-clingy independent older children and adolescents; which results in adults who are fully adult."
So I am going to hear when a baby stops crying?
Nothing pussified about that. It’s common sense and good medical sense. Do you think in all of human history infants under 1 year old were banished to a separate cave or hut?
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