Oh Nikki, I had to smile at the description of the OK to Wake gadget 
you sent in to LACTNET - and there is a special irony in your title, 
Only in the USA..... Not true!  When we went to live in Malawi in 
1977 taking our first-born son, Ian, as a three-month old 
(exclusively breastfed of course) he started sleeping through the 
night.  An amazing child!  But as a very gleeful two-year-old he 
would wake quite early every morning and come bounding into our room 
to wake us up and start the day.  My husband became less and less 
amused.  So he devised a plan to see if he could put off that very 
early morning moment.  He ran a wire from the electric alarm clock 
beside our bed up into the roof, across the passage, and down to a 
little green light he fixed over the door inside Ian's room.  We 
explained to our very little boy that we would like to sleep longer 
in the mornings, but that he could wake us up when his little green 
light came on.  At first we set the alarm to turn on the light for 
about 4 am, so that it would always be on when he woke.  And then we 
set the alarm later and later every day until the light would only 
come on at a civilized 6 am.  Incredibly, the plan worked: our little 
angel would play happily alone in his room until his little green 
light came on.  We thought we were such clever parents.  Clearly, we 
should have patented the idea .... But, as it happened, we were 
forced to accept the reality that the apparent success of the little 
green light was really a fluke because all children are 
different;  our subsequent twins woke five or six times a night each 
until they were about 4 years old, and in fact attempting to 
distinguish between day and night became totally superfluous!  Good 
luck to the producers of the OK to Wake clock!   But they should know 
that this idea has been and gone on another continent 32 years ago :-)

Pamela Morrison IBCLC
now in Rustington, England
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Date:    Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:38:53 -0400
From:    Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: only in the USA

Dear Lactnet Friends:

There is something called a "Ok to Wake" clock that you put in your
toddler's crib. Will there someday be a machine for every parenting task?

"OK to Wake, color changing night-light timer teaches children to stay in
bed longer in the morning so parents get more sleep.

Fun "toe" buttons designed for kids invoke funny facial animations on the
LCD.

Separate "Nap Timer" allows for afternoon napping without disrupting usual
alarm and night-light settings; wake-up options allow for gradual-wake
audible tone, green "OK to Wake" light or both.

Alarm clock with snooze function allows older kids to get up "on their own".

Customizable: Parents set the OK to Wake, time and adjustable brightness;
includes interchangeable green bug and pink flower face plates for a boy or
a girl's room."

warmly,

Nikki Lee RN, BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI, ANLC, CKC
craniosacral therapy practitioner
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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