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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
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[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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