"The Con of Controlled Crying"- Teleseminar

I thought that this free teleseminar might be of interest to many of you!

FREE Teleseminar
The "Con" of Controlled Crying and
Other Infant Sleep Myths

Are you.....

	Confused about baby sleep advice ?
	Worried about creating 'bad habits' ?
	Stressed that you don't have your baby in a 'routine'?
	Anxious that you may be depriving your baby of important skills such as learning to self settle and sleep 'all night'?

RELAX!
If you are feeling overwhelmed and exhausted but can't bear leaving your baby to cry in order to 'train' him to sleep, you will breathe a sigh of relief as you listen to this FREE teleseminar "The Con of Controlled Crying and Other Infant Sleep Myths".
In this important teleseminar (listen on the phone or your computer), Pinky McKay, best-selling author of 'Sleeping Like a Baby' and '100 Ways to Calm the Crying' (Penguin), International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and mother of five, Pinky McKay will reveal:

	Why the biology of mother-infant attachment makes it so heart wrenching to leave your baby to 'cry it out' - and why it's important to trust and honour this powerful connection.
	Why methods such as 'controlled crying' and 'ferberising' are not healthy options for your baby's development.
	How leaving babies to cry in order to 'teach' them to sleep may cause long term adverse changes to immature infant brains.
	The link between infant feeding and sleep - your diet, feeding routines and feeding to sleep, what's helpful and what isn't.
	Why do babies wake - is it 'behavioural' or 'bad habits' and when should you worry and what can you do to help your baby (and you) get more sleep?

HERE to watch a short video of Pinky and to register

A recipe for Disaster: or how to make an unattached baby

OK, this was just sent to me on Facebook and I had to read it three times to convince myself that it wasn't some sort of a prank!!  THis is for real- they actually think that they are going to sell this to parents and that this technology is a wonderful thing!!!  Let's all have a good look at this shall we?  How many horrifying things can you see/read in this ad? 

I'm going to go read it again... it's kinda like a train wreck, you just can't help looking!!

(Here's the link to the original article in case the pictures don't come through!)


Technology for New Parents

Breaux on June 1, 2010 at 1:00pm
Sometimes it feels like the hardest part of being a modern family is carving out time to relax and be simple. We all crave a certain measure of simplicity in our lives, and no one feels that more than parents, especially of little ones. The question is, does simplicity mean hearkening back to a time before there was so much distracting technology, or does distracting technology make life much easier? We’re not going to answer that for you, but we do have a product that features some pretty complicated technology promising to make life much easier.


LUNAR’S KOO Holistic Feeding System is designed for the new parent in mind. Understanding that new moms (and dads) have their sleep schedules interrupted quite dramatically by the addition of a newborn, LUNAR has come up with a pretty nifty system that allows baby to be ushered to sleep gently, mom or dad awoken gently when baby cries, a portable basket that warms milk bottles automatically upon hearing baby cry and even a portable light that mom can carry with her. More details of each element to Koo:

• A baby sleep-training mobile and monitoring unit This tree stand offers bedtime routine for the baby via a collapsing mobile as well as monitoring the baby. The stand is also the nesting and charging station for the bottle cooler/warmer.
• A transformable baby bassinet/rocker The bassinet easily unfolds to become a cozy feeding rocker. An auto-rocker integrated in the base soothes baby to sleep between feedings and becomes part of baby’s bedtime routine.
• A bottle cooling/warmer unit The portable basket keeps two prepared milk bottles cool (using thermolelectrics technology) while recharging on the tree stand. If the baby cries within the feeding timeframe set by the parents, a bottle will instantly be warmed.
• A parent lighting/monitoring unit soft as a light pillow The pillow lamp also acts as the “heart” of the system allowing parents to set up waking “turns” and bottle warming timeframe. As the baby cries, the electroluminescent fabric pillow softly lights up and the baby’s sound gradually follows to wake up the parent.

 Here's a neat chart explaining how it works:


What do you think about LUNAR'S KOO Holistic Feeding System? Too awesome or too complicated? Do you think a system of technology like this would help you? Is there any technology, related to baby or not, that you've incorporated in your life that you feel makes it infinitely easier? Let us know!

Sleep Training: A review of research

Peaceful Parenting has put together this excellent list of books, articles and websites on the topic of Sleep training.

HERE to go directly to the Peaceful Parenting Website

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Sleep Training: A Review of Research

The following is a list of resources for research-based information on infant sleep, night time parenting, baby crying, need for nourishment and comfort at night, and physiological body and brain responses to 'controlled crying,' 'cry it out,' or 'sleep training' methods. Also see psychological conditioning studies on learned helplessness (which occurs to babies whose care-givers utilize these methods).


BOOKS:

*The No-Cry Sleep Solution
*The Baby Sleep Book
*Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering
*The Baby Bond
*Natural Family Living
*The Baby Book
*The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost
*Baby Matters
*Attachment Parenting: A Commonsense Guide to Understanding & Nurturing Your Baby
*Primal Health: Understanding the Critical Period Between Conception and the First Birthday
*The Attachment Connection: Parenting A Secure & Confident Child
*Attachment Parenting: Instinctive Care for Your Baby & Young Child
*Mothering Magazine



ARTICLES:

Excessive Crying Harmful to Babies

Being Wise to Babywise [advocates for CIO, 'controlled crying' and 'sleep training']

The Dangers of Leaving Baby to Cry It Out (CIO)

Sleeping Like a Baby

Crying It Out Causes Brain Damage

Dangers of Your Baby 'Crying It Out'

Ask the Experts: Sleep Training

Healthy Infant Sleep

Should Baby Soothe Himself to Sleep?

Sleeping Through the Night

The No-Cry Sleep Solution

Biological Imperatives: Why Babies Do Not and Should Not Sleep Alone

Where Should Babies Sleep at Night? A Review of Evidence

The Con of Controlled Crying

10 Reasons to Sleep by Your Baby

Breastfeeding, Nightwaking: Protection from SIDS

Solitary or Shared Sleep: What is Safe?

Babies Not Designed to Sleep Alone

Baby Sleep: A Review of Research [with links to articles]

Train Up a Child in the Way He Should Go

Reason 742 to Share Sleep

Primal Love & Mothering

Night Time Parenting: A Practical Approach for the Reduction of Attachment Disorders and the Promotion of Emotionally Secure Children

WEBSITES:

Co-Sleeping vs. Crib Fact & Statistic Sheet

Baby Sleep Institute and McKenna Library of Research

To connect with other parents and get in on Sleep Forums:
SafeBedSharing.Org

"Crying it out" may damage baby's brain

A great blog about the dangers of "Cry it Out" baby training, including information from Dr. Stephan Juan and Dr. Margot Sunderland. Check out the end of the blog for an excellent list of reading resources.

Research suggests that allowing a baby to "cry it out" causes brain damage.

by Dr. Stephen Juan

Experts warn that allowing a baby to "cry it out" causes extreme distress to the baby. And such extreme distress in a newborn has been found to block the full development of certain areas of the brain and causes the brain to produce extra amounts of cortisol, which can be harmful.

According to a University of Pittsburgh study by Dr. DeBellis and seven colleagues, published in Biological Psychiatry in 2004, children who suffer early trauma generally develop smaller brains.

Here to read the entire blog