"Back To Sleep" or WHAT? Can Science Make Up It's Mind?

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Dear Lily

Now we just don’t know what to heed!!! Lie babies on their backs??? don’t lie babies on their backs??? Give your baby a soother, don’t give your baby a soother??? Sleep with you child/don’t sleep with your child??? Feed your baby formula it’s best/don’t feed your baby formula beastfeeding is best???

All this differing advice is absolutely unacceptable!

They want to make up their minds what parents should be doing with their children ebfore they publish these findings or otherwise all they cause is confusion and worry in parents and risks to babies health!

God Bless you and much love and peace to you

Teresa
 
first baby “put her on her tummy, if she spits up she is less likely to choke”
second baby “put him on his side”
third baby “put her on her back”
first grandchild “put her on her side”
second grandchild “put him on his back”
8th grandchild “put him on his tummy”

Obviously it makes not one bit of difference, as long as baby is on a firm mattress, no pillows, cords, strings, dangly things, or other hazards. doctors don’t know near as much as they would like you to think.
 
Terresa, isn’t it something??? I have read in “Dear Abby” NOT to have babies sleep in bed with mom. THEN I read in my psychology text book in societies where babies sleep with mom, there are less cases of Cot Death or SIDS.
Asquared, LOL that’s what my mom said! Don’t put the baby on it’s back it will choke to death. I had to explain, this was 7 years ago, about the “back to sleep” campaign.
 
now my daughter is in this “family bed” thing, warned her she and hubby would never get a good nights sleep again if they fell into that trip. 4 kids later, they complain all the time about never getting to sleep through the night.
 
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Teresa9:
Feed your baby formula it’s best/don’t feed your baby formula beastfeeding is best???
All this differing advice is absolutely unacceptable!Teresa
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I think it is well proven that there are definite risks to NOT breastfeeding.
 
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Lilyofthevalley:
Babies Unused to Sleeping Face-Down Seen at Risk
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I never paid any attention to this warning. All of my four infants slept face down or on their sides. When they were new born I would put a blanket wedge at their backs so that they would not roll onto their backs. I always felt it was safer to lay them on their stomachs (in case they spit up, I was concerned they would choke) . It did not feel natural to me to put them on their backs. Also, they slept better on their stomachs. When I tried to put them on their backs they would not fall asleep. Once I turned them over they went right to sleep. I feel it is just fine to put them on their stomachs as long as they are not layed on a “soft” surface like a pillow or blanket or too soft a matress.

One of the bad side affects to laying infants on their backs is that they might develop a misshapened head (specifically, a flat head). I once saw a baby wearing this helmet. I did not want to come out and ask the mother why. Later I learned that these helmets are used to help reshape the heads of babies who had been layed on their backs from birth
 
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Lilyofthevalley:
Babies Unused to Sleeping Face-Down Seen at Risk
story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=5&u=/nm/20041206/hl_nm/babies_sleeping_dc
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I never paid any attention to this warning. All of my four infants slept face down or on their sides. When they were new born I would put a blanket wedge at their backs so that they would not roll onto their backs. I always felt it was safer to lay them on their stomachs (I feared they may choke on spit up if on their backs). It did not feel natural to me to put them on their backs. Also, they sleeped better on their stomachs. When I tried to put them on their backs they would not fall asleep. Once I turned them over they were went right to sleep. I feel it is just fine to put them on their stomachs as long as they are not layed on a “soft” surface like a pillow or blanket or too soft a matress.

One of the bad side affects to laying infants on their backs is that they might develop miss shapened head. I once saw a baby wearing this helmet. I did not want to come out and ask the mother why. Later I learned that these helmets are used to help reshape the heads of babies who had been layed on their backs from birth
 
Asquared, there is no such thing as a decent night’s sleep with small children.
 
I ignored this advice. I felt a little guilty about that, but I did it, anyway. I also had him in bed with me for the first three months or so. Once he got really wiggly, it no longer mattered if I put him down one way or the other, as he could just roll over. And, when he got really wiggly, I decided he should sleep in his packnplay. I don’t have a lot of faith in doctors. Even the really talented ones can’t be expected to keep up with all the research and even if they do manage to do that… they can’t actually practice their trade properly because of the way they have to cram a thousand patients in a day to cover the cost of their malpractice insurance.

After my son’s birth, I had to go back to the hospital for a couple of stays because of an episiotomy owie that wouldn’t heal right.

Three stays in the hospital in one month completely stripped me of any faith or respect for medical professionals.

Particularly the stupid, dirty one who kept barging in and touching things with their filthy, septic hands.

Oh, dear… I seem to have hit one of my own nerves!:o
 
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Lilyofthevalley:
Asquared, there is no such thing as a decent night’s sleep with small children.
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I have always had babies who slept very well, even at just a few weeks old, even while breastfed. Why? I strongly believe it is because they have slept on their tummies, which would seem to give them a more secure feeling, to me. I also cover them with, gasp, BLANKETS!

I don’t base my parenting on the latest newsflash. I tend to stick with what my instincts tell me. So far, so good.
 
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