Does Your Kid Have a Lovey?
Welcome to the new and improved ADM Blog Hop (you can read more about the roots of this Blog Hop here). Our host this week is Sara over at Fred-n-Sara. Anyone can participate! Just post on the week’s topic and add you link to the Linky at the bottom of the post. Topic: Share how your child, or you, or someone you know, found and adopted his/her lovey and the importance of it in his/her life. As a bonus, feel free to add cute pictures of your little ones with their loveys. Aellyn does not have a lovey. Well, I guess her Dad and I are her lovey if by lovey you mean that comfort...
Read MoreDrop-side Cribs, Penises, and Vaccines
Recently, the Consumer Products Safety Commission banned the use and sale of drop-side cribs in the US. This certainly doesn’t bother me per se. I’m all for making any child product safer. However, this flury of news over the drop-side cribs is just so hypocritical! This is why; Drop-side Cribs vs. Co-sleeping The CPSC is one of the loudest squawkers about the dangers of babies sleeping in adult beds. Their campaign used the statistic that between 1999 and 2001, 180 babies under two died as a result of being in an adult bed. This statistic is based on an article...
Read MoreCrying is Good for a Baby’s Lungs
This gem of parenting advice from the turn of the century is unfortunately still in circulation. It is usually a quick follow-up to “if you jump up every time he/she cries you’ll spoil them!” Both of these are completely false. Here are some reasons why that tug in your heart that is telling you to go pick your baby up is correct. Increased blood pressure, cortisol, and heart rate. “Documented immediate and long-term sequelae of crying include increased heart rate and blood pressure, reduced oxygen level, elevated cerebral blood pressure, initiation of the...
Read MoreCo-sleeping
Ah, let the disagreements ensue! Gasp! Shock! Horror! I plan to sleep with my baby. But come on. Being the research librarian I am, you didn’t think I would make this statement lightly did you? Co-sleeping, family bed, sleep sharing. It is called many things. When my parents were raising kids it was assumed to be the worst possible thing you could do to children to let them into your bed. It was considered spoiling. But, babies sleeping with their parents is done by more people the world over (over 90% of the world co-sleeps – see Young, J. (1998). Babies and...
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