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I guess some women listen to it all but just as well most mothers
laugh at the "professionals" and complain about the nurse saying this or
the dr saying that - what would they know etc.
Pity that it seems to be that way - but from what I hear on the
street ( at school and playgroup etc) women walk out of hospital totally
confused thinking that the Nurses, Midwives and Dr's are all off a
different planet and have no idea about the reality of being a
parent. Not all - as there are always exceptions but many!
Regards
Rhonda.
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Date: Friday, March 14,
2003 17:28:28
Subject: [ozmidwifery]
"failure to sleep through the night"!!!
I was just flicking through the latest ANF Journal
before chucking it out when the title "Frequent feeding clue to disrupted
infant sleep"!! It was published in the "Archives of Disease in Childhood"
by M. Nikoloulou and I. St. James-Roberts. These researchers identified
"at risk" infants during their first week of life which put them at risk
of failing to sleep through the night at 12 weeks of age!! Talk about turn
normal physiology into an abnormality. They say that babies that feed more
than 11 times per day at 1 week were 2.7 times more likely not to sleep
through. Duh, aren't they supposed to be feeding frequently. There is no
mention of the failure to thrive rate between the "control" group and
the"behaviour program group". This program included maximising the
difference between day and night, avoinding feeding and cuddling at night
and from the age of three weeks gradually delaying feeds when the baby
awoke at night!!
When will sense prevail. Those poor women out there,
they must be so confused with nurses now taking that line.
Just annoyed
Jackie
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