The big problem with any research on crying solutions is that they only look at ''stop crying'' and never or hardly ever at ''why is this baby crying or fussy''. If only looking at ''stop crying'' it might very well turn out that feeding the poor kid Valium does the trick best. In most Western societies crying is sen as quite normal and expected behaviour for an infant and it seen as the infants only way of communication or even as an early way of manipulating parents. There is hardly any knowlegde, let alone aknowledgement, of how babies do communicate and what their real needs are among parents and, and I hate to say, many health care providers and even professional child carers.
As has been said before, if parents do apply real communication with their baby, keep them close and feed often at breast, the few who still keep crying and are not able to communicate why they keep crying, might be soothed by the S's, but no cause of the crying will be taken away.
Warmly,
Gonneke, IBCLC in PP, LC lecturer mom of 5, the 4th identifying herself as the ''should have been a fussy baby if not my mom carried me along 24/7 for three years''- baby, who is now studying pedagogy and wondering why her college teaches about nothing about children under 2 years of age, enlightening he co-students with mom's knowledge and her own experience.
--- On Sun, 8/8/10, Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [LACTNET] the 5 Ss
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Sunday, August 8, 2010, 5:56 PM
Dear Friends:
I agree with Kathy L. , that the 5 Ss are one more strategy to be used
appropriately.
All WIC staff in my state were mandated to become certified in this method.
The developer of this method spoke at ILCA, and was endorsed by the AAP.
The developer also admitted here on LACTNET that swaddled infants can't show
feeding cues and that the solution is to feed infants on schedule....which
goes against the evidence about the initiation of breastfeeding. How did he
get endorsed by ILCA?
There was funding to train healthcare workers in HBOTB, but not enough
funding to train healthcare workers in basic breastfeeding management and
counseling techniques. What's up with that? How did a new method achieve
such organizational support? Based on what evidence?
Only now, years later, do we have the first research on the method. Seems
like the cart before the horse, doesn't it?
I hope there are more studies, and that they are truly objective and
well-done.
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral therapy practitioner
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com
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