Subject: settling school


> I'm afraid your brief description of the Australian "settling schools"
> sounded rather frightening, reminiscent of a certain fundamental religious
> program recently popular in the U.S. that causes failure to thrive and
> premature weaning through dictatorial infant feeding practices and other
> aggregious parenting errors.  Are these settling schools a modern
invention
> there?
>
> Arly Helm, MS, IBCLC
> Grass Valley, California
No Arly, they have been around for years. Often are affiliated with a
hospital. No religious connection as far as I am aware. They aim to help
parents learn techniques to settle their infants, such as swaddling,
'controlled comforting', those sort of things.

This site gives you some idea of what advice they give:
http://www.swsahs.nsw.gov.au/areaser/karitane/docs/sleep.asp
(I just found this site by searching with Goggle and am using it as an
example.)

Don't you have these sort of 'settling centres' outside of Australia?
Kaaren Clements
IBCLC
Melb Australia

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