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Straight Talk About Real Babies
Defining New-mom Expectations
By Ann Calandro, BSN, RNC, IBCLC
Sleep is also interesting. All around the world babies and children sleep with their parents or their brothers and sisters. In the United States, solitary sleep is advocated by physicians and society in general and is thought to foster independence and self-sufficiency. Other societies look upon infant separation for sleep as child neglect. Very interesting. Are the babies in the United States different from babies in other places?
Knowing what we know about the immaturity of newborn babies, is sleeping alone physiologically natural for babies? Many mothers who keep their babies close at night can attest to the fact that their babies sleep better and longer if they can sense the presence of their mother. Understanding Baby's lack of maturity, is this a surprise?
Breastfeeding is the act of allowing the mother and baby to interact in a natural way, listening to each other's needs. It is an understanding that mothers need babies just as much as babies need mothers. Breastfeeding is not something we teach babies; it is something babies teach us. We have been a bottle-feeding society for a long time. It is nearly impossible to fit breastfeeding into formula-feeding expectations. Mothers who try to often find themselves formula feeding, and they don't even know how it happened.
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