Dear Lacnetters,

I wanted to pass along new data on the use of the 5 S's with at risk  
populations. This is of importance to LCs because many mothers  
discontinue breastfeeding because of infant fussiness.  This was the  
reason I replied to Suzie's note about putting a baby on camel's  
milk. If the baby has persistent crying, it may be possible to  
mitigate the crying without interrupting the breastfeeding or putting  
the mother on a restrictive diet.

The Boulder Public Health Department just presented at the annual CDC  
Citimatch conference on maternal and child health. The Boulder nurses  
reported that teaching The Happiest Baby (giving them a DVD, CD of  
white noise and large swaddling blanket) to the parents of high risk  
neonates resulted in 41/42  babies being calmed easily by their  
parents. The only exception was a child whose crying was triggered by  
a medical condition.  Statistically one would have expected 4-8  
babies to have persistent crying (>3 hours/d) and ~20 to have crying  
1.5 hours/day...this was not seen.

The Dept of Health of PA is training ~300 THB educators to work in  
every WIC clinic in the state. The goal is to improve parents ability  
to calm their babies to increase breastfeeding initiation and  
continuation rates, lessen postpartum depression as well as lessen  
child abuse.  A followup study is being designed by researchers at  
the University of Pittsburgh analyzing the benefit from the program,  
including PPD measures.

There are now ~1000 Happiest Baby educators teaching this approach  
across the country and another 1000 in the process of training (at  
University of Michigan, Northwestern, Children's Hospital of Florida,  
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital,Texas Children's, CHOP, St  
Luke' s Children's - Boise,Wisconsin Children's, Children's of  
Pittsburgh - SCAN program,et al. The program is taught at teen  
parenting programs, SBS prevention programs, PPD support groups,  
fatherhood classes, and on numerous military bases (Camp Pendleton,  
Fort Bragg, Portsmouth Naval Hospital, etc).

In addition, Duke University PPD prevention/treatment program will  
soon begin using THB as one of their treatment modalities.

Kind regards,

Harvey

Disclaimer, I am the president of the company that trains THB  
educators and makes The Happiest Baby DVDs, books and CDs.

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