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astra_nomer ([personal profile] astra_nomer) wrote2005-10-10 11:10 am
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The Pacifier is Your Friend

Maybe I shouldn't feel so guilty that DS2 won't sleep without his pacifier:

American Academy of Pediatrics endorses pacifiers to reduce SIDS risk

Boy, will that stir up a hornets' nest with the attachment parenting crowd.
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[identity profile] arcanology.livejournal.com 2005-10-10 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)

Attachment parenting?

As opposed to detachment parenting?

[identity profile] astra-nomer.livejournal.com 2005-10-10 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, some advocates of attachment parenting (family bed! breastfeed! carry your baby as a fashion accessory!) do call it detachment parenting (let the baby cry it out! be a working mom! pacifiers!), just as anti-choice people call the pro-choicers pro-abortionists.

[identity profile] kirisutogomen.livejournal.com 2005-10-12 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
And some pro-choice people call the pro-life people anti-choice. :-P

[identity profile] astra-nomer.livejournal.com 2005-10-12 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah, well, that was intentional. :)

[identity profile] kirisutogomen.livejournal.com 2005-10-12 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, it's definitely intentional when the pro-lifers call pro-choicers pro-abortion. :-)

[identity profile] mama-pipa.livejournal.com 2005-10-10 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Gees, guess I am lucky my kids survived at all... Brighid took a pacifier like a handful of times and Aodhan didn't want to have anything to do with one. And they slept in my bed and nursed throughout the night for at least four months.

You know what really gets me with the more militant types of "attachment parenting" is it really doesn't give any room for flexibility, to really attend to what a kid needs. Sometimes its perfectly ok to let a baby sit in a swing and enjoy the music and or mobile while you are doing something else.

[identity profile] mama-pipa.livejournal.com 2005-10-10 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
and I guess I shouldn't mention that I let my kids sleep on their bellies either...

[identity profile] astra-nomer.livejournal.com 2005-10-10 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree that you can go a bit overboard with attachment parenting. Sometimes, when my kids are really upset, I just need to leave them alone for a few minutes until they calm down. And sometimes, in order for me to be a better mother, I need to separate myself from them.

DS1 never took a pacifier, and co-slept with us until he was over a year old. And DS2 has slept with a pillow or stuffed animal in his crib for a while. Somehow, they've both pulled through...
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