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This is all since the Mothercraft nurses were taken out of the
hospital system - our training was nothing like nursing and we did
look at these sleep schools and see the dangers of it all. They
were just sort of starting up when i was studying and
we looked at times where they were and were not
appropriate... and the support that parents needed and were not getting
from the Health system - i found with my son even the infant welfare
Nurse was hard to get to and not much help to me.
The support often given in the hospital by the
Mothercraft who did not have the nursing duties and who specialised in
helping mothers to do all the things that - I was never ever shown by a
nurse during my hospital stay but taught many mothers during my training
and i guess many other Mothers are not told or shown these things as the
nurses I worked with had no idea - I had to teach one nurse how to bath
a baby (she was working there and I was the student!)
Unfortunately the basic mothercraft training is not even done
anymore.
I guess most people I know have had me to get in their ear about
how normal their kids are and how to chill out and enjoy their babies
etc.
And I am glad to live in the country and away from the stench of
Melbourne - the smog and chemicals in the air cannot be healthy for
anyone. LOL
regards
Rhonda.
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Date: Saturday, March
15, 2003 14:33:45
Subject: Re:
[ozmidwifery] "failure to sleep through the night"!!!
You obviously dont live in Melbourne, Rhonda - fully booked "sleep
schools" not only show the lack of confidence women have in their own
ability, but perpetuate these feelings of inadequacy - that babies
"should" behave / sleep whatever and therefore mothers must follow
these awful perescriptive regimes - While I hear from mothers who
have "failed " sleep school, I also keep hearing from professionals
who believe they are saving large numbers of families who are "falling
apart" due to sleep deprivation by sending them to "sleep school" some
of these babies are VERY young. I would be interested in a followup
study - I am sure all mothers need support -perhaps more doulas
would be an answer -not the sleep training kind!
I am saddened that the maternal instinct
to respond to babies is being so clouded by these myths of the
sleeping baby - and that publishers keep the myth alive.
Pinky
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10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery]
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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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