A few years ago, I checked in with a friend who’d been having a tough time with her high-maintenance newborn. “I don’t even eat until after my husband comes home,” she moaned. “Whenever I put the baby down to fix something, he cries.”
In deference to her hormonal hysteria, I refrained from sharing my immediate reaction: So?
As a new mum, I regularly left my daughter to shriek in her bouncy seat while I scarfed down my lunch or took a shower. Occasional neglect seemed like a relatively minor maternal sin, especially since it was the only way I got anything done around the house. Wasn’t it in my daughter’s best interest to ensure our toilets weren’t condemned by the Health Department?
I developed a habit of lolling around bed in the morning, not responding to my daughter’s cries down the hall until they progressed from gentle mewling to outright fury. And in that spirit, I refused to buy a baby monitor.
These days, it seems, there’s no such thing as an off-duty parent. Even when your children are sleeping, you must remain tethered to them by an electronic gadget, one of those modern-parenting must-haves that our own parents somehow survived without.
More at Original:http://www.babble.com.au/2009/01/02/out-of-sight/
BABIES in prams might walk the walk, but they also need to talk the talk, a new study has found.
A British report of 2722 parents and babies found children in prams facing the front are less likely to talk, laugh and interact with the person pushing them.
Almost 90 per cent of babies are in forward-facing prams, which psychologists from Dundee University say could undermine children’s development.
Children facing whoever is pushing them are twice as likely to be talked to, boosting their language and emotional development.
Key findings include:
ONE-quarter of parents using face-to-face buggies talk to their baby — compared with 11 per cent of those with babies facing away.
FIFTY per cent of babies facing their mothers laughed during a 1.6km journey, while only one in a group of 20 facing away laughed.
BABIES facing their pushers also had slower heart rates, and were twice as likely to fall asleep.
Ava Adams, a spokeswoman for Valco Baby prams, said many new pram models allowed parents to face babies in both directions.
Ms Adams, 32, is a first-time mother to Jack, 14 months. “In the first six months it’s reassuring to have your baby facing you and as they get older you can face them around to see everything.”
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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24811482-661,00.html
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