In a message dated 4/17/1 4:06:29 PM, Barb writes:

<< I was wondering if Australia is the only place in the world which has what
I
term 'sleep schools', Mother/baby units, staffed by midwives or nurses often
attached to hospitals where babies are taught to sleep and mothers are
taught to make their babies sleep through controlled crying (or controlled
comforting as it is sometimes termed) >>

Barb, very interesting. I do not know of a sleep school *facility* here in
the US, but it certainly could catch on here with the right marketing.

Currently we take the more individualized approach and do have sleep trainers
and sleep tutors and sleep gurus and sleep guides with comprehensive sleep
protocols.

I can just see it: Dr Ferber, Gary Ezzo, and the Baby Whisperer teaming up to
open sleep schools around the country. YIKS!

Debbie Tobin
RN BSN IBCLC LCCE
Springfield, Virginia USA
In the Fairfax County suburbs outside the Washington DC beltway
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