YouTube - (Baby's perspective) barnets perspektiv!

Ever wondered what it is like to be baby looking out at the world from inside a pram? Wondered what it is like to be a baby being carried? This short video demonstrates the difference. The language is not English, but for those English speakers, the visual portrays the message brilliantly.



YouTube - Barnets perspektiv!

Cartoon commentary on social environment and attachment parenting

Gloria Lemay just posted this delightful cartoon about Attachment Parenting.  I went to the site of The Parenting Pit to source the cartoon and see who was behind this fabulous social commentary.

Arun is the clever artist/cartoonist and delightful blogger of his life and experiences as a homeschooling dad.  Apart from his excellent cartoons and other commentary, his site contains many gems, including my personal favourite 12 exercises for Mindful Parenting

http://theparentingpit.com/alternative-parenting/mindfulparenting/

For any parent or parent to be, you will find many articles and ideas to consider for yourself in relation to what sort of parent you want to be.

Research finds the mum-bub bond may reduce neglect

Another study which provides insight into the importance of one to one midwifery. A midwife working in a primary health care, one to one relationship with a childbearing woman can provide a safe, supported and trusting 'space' where that woman (and her partner) can explore what having her baby means to her/them. In the context of that relationship, the midwife can promote prenatal bonding and breastfeeding, leading to an improved mother-child relationship.

"This study emphasises the need to address the basic, universal needs of children, and stresses the importance of this early mother-infant relationship.

"Strengthening this crucial relationship may help to prevent some of the long term consequences of neglect that we are seeing more commonly today, such as delinquency, crime, developmental delay and psychiatric disorders."

Research finds the mum-bub bond may reduce neglect

Same hormone evokes both love and envy, study finds | Science and Environment | Jerusalem Post

"With a reputation as the “love hormone,” oxytocin has been linked to trust, empathy and generosity. But new research suggests that oxytocin plays a role in jealousy and gloating as well. “Subsequent to these findings, we assume that the hormone is an overall trigger for social sentiments: When the person’s association is positive, oxytocin bolsters pro-social behaviors; when the association is negative, the hormone increases negative sentiments,” Israeli researcher Simone Shamay-Tsoory, of the University of Haifa, said in a news release from the university".


Same hormone evokes both love and envy, study finds | Science and Environment | Jerusalem Post

QUESTION 2. Should an infant who is breastfeeding poorly and has a tongue tie undergo a tongue tie division? -- Algar 94 (11): 911 -- Archives of Disease in Childhood

The whole issue (of whether tongue tie -ankyloglossia is related to breastfeeding difficulties) is complicated when considering that many studies have attempted to measure the degree of tongue tie, a notoriously difficult endeavour, and that once graded, the degree of impairment appears not to correlate with breastfeeding problems. With all this considered, one cannot ignore the plethora of documented experience that supports this procedure, so much so that NICE have produced an interventional procedure guideline that acknowledges that the little evidence there is does seem to suggest that this procedure can improve breastfeeding while having no major safety concerns. As a result it suggests that the evidence is enough to support the use of the procedure provided that normal arrangements are in place for consent, audit and clinical governance.11

If mothers overwhelmingly tell us that it works, then why should we argue?

What a sensible conclusion!!!

QUESTION 2. Should an infant who is breastfeeding poorly and has a tongue tie undergo a tongue tie division? -- Algar 94 (11): 911 -- Archives of Disease in Childhood

Fathers Gain Respect From Experts (and Mothers) - NYTimes.com

"when couples scored high on positive relationship traits like willingness to compromise, expressing affection or love for their partner, encouraging or helping partners to do things that were important to them, and having an absence of insults and criticism, the father was significantly more likely to be engaged with his children"

Fathers Gain Respect From Experts (and Mothers) - NYTimes.com