I was living in america at the time I had by first child and had the baby wise style of partenting as my guide. Thats what the women around me were doing and I didn't think to do it another way. After a difficult and disempowering birth with him I did schedule feed him and do some controlled crying. Thankfully it was close to his natural rhythm anyway and at the time I dont recal too much anxiety about it as I have been reading about on ozmid. But years later as I found out more about demand feeding and now having had a wonderful VBAC, empowering birth with my second I began to understand the phsycological implications for my husbands and my actions. So with my son who was now around 3 1/2 I gave him opportunity to draw closer to me by sleeping with me, playing birth games etc. He stayed in our room for almost a year before he felt like being in his own room again. It has been a wonderfully healing time for us and he can now express his emotions freely and is a more ffectionate child.
For me it was a realization that it wasnt too late to act on new information, clearer understanding and start making changes for the better. Erika Munton dare to keep your kids off drugs, have a homebirth. -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
