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Cradling linked to depression in new mothers...

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DrDaddy · 29/08/2007 10:34

In today's Guardian here

OP posts:
nailpolish · 29/08/2007 10:35

crock of shit
i am left handed and always held dd's on my right side
so i could tickle/stroke/hold hands with them with my left hand

wheresthehamster · 29/08/2007 10:36

Hope none of MY taxes paid for this f**king waste of time

WideWebWitch · 29/08/2007 10:37

Agree, Crock of shit

peanutbear · 29/08/2007 10:37

another vote for shite my dd prefered my left boob over my right and I am right handed

come to think of it i uddle most babies tha way and I am not depressed that I know off

nailpolish · 29/08/2007 10:37

that aricle has actually made me v angry and sad

Greensleeves · 29/08/2007 10:39

Bag o' shite.

fuzzywuzzy · 29/08/2007 10:39

Utter crap, I'm left handed very strongly left handed as it happens, and had I attempted to cradle either of my girls using my right side I'd have been costantly dropping them.

And I was neither depressed nor stressed by my girls, on the contrary, I was riding on a cloud of loved up post partum hormones, I loved everybody....even my mother even the evil fucking bitch from hell (SIL), luckily I came to my sense on the latter one after about six motnhs.

expatinscotland · 29/08/2007 10:39

Bullshit!

Don't 'scientists' have better things to research than absolute bollocks theories like this?

AngharadGoldenhand · 29/08/2007 10:41

How can it be an action not linked to right- or left-handedness?

I'm right-handed, so held them in my left arm and could do things (like writing) with my right hand that I can't do with my left.

fuzzywuzzy · 29/08/2007 10:43

And cradling is so linked to whether your left or right handed, my mother dad and sisters, and dh all cradle babies to the right (because doh they're all right handed)....so going by that my entire family is all depressive

TellusMater · 29/08/2007 10:44

So if you cradled your babies to the right and weren't depressed, then you would be one of the the 68% who did this and didn't report high levels of stress.

Not sure why people seem offended by it .

But it doesn't seem a very useful maker by itself.

TellusMater · 29/08/2007 10:45

I am left handed and cradled on the left. Can see why it would have been more sensible to cradle on the right, but just didn't. Not sure I could have. Would have felt wierd.

fuzzywuzzy · 29/08/2007 10:46

What are they going to do with this piece of 'research', are women going to be accused of depression if they're caught cradling babies on the 'wrong' side now???

TellusMater · 29/08/2007 10:46

Who are "they"?

GooseyLoosey · 29/08/2007 10:48

I read this in the paper this morning and I find it hard to find any statistical significance in a study of 79 people.

It said 14% of unstressed mothers held their babies on the right (ie 11) and 32% of stressed mothers (ie 25) did so. Based on a difference of 14 people, they decide to publish this in national papers. Barking!

Did they determine how many of their sample size might be right or left handed or how many might have had other physical reasons for doing so?

peanutbear · 29/08/2007 10:48

seems like the penguin falling over experiment to me, not eve that interesting, I cant believe we pay people to sit around and come up with this junk

There is cancer to cure people do something useful and get on with that

TellusMater · 29/08/2007 10:50

Not convinced psychologists will be curing cancer any time soon...

Kaloo20 · 29/08/2007 10:51

I'm left handed and cradled to my right for the sheer convenience of having my left arm and hand free to do everything else ...

Looking at the answers on here, perhaps there should be two threads ..

Left handed, and
Right handed

then get MNetters to note in the correct thread for them if they cradled to the right or left ... At present the answers are consist according to handedness

fuzzywuzzy · 29/08/2007 10:56

actually come to think of it, after having dd1 I had a tap thingy on my rright hand and couldnt even cosider holding dd with my right hand as needles make me really queasy and it bloody hurt.

flightattendant · 29/08/2007 10:57

Ok, well I'm depressed and stressed. I hold my baby on my left shoulder, but tend to feed him initially with the right breast, so cradle him with his head to the right as a default - what is all that about then?

TellusMater · 29/08/2007 10:58

The answers on here aren't consistent for handedness.

And this study is not suggesting that everyone who cradles to the right is depressed. It very clearly doesn't say that.

mears · 29/08/2007 11:01

Study based on 79 mothers? Hardly large enough to form any conclusion I would have thought. Best ignored.

hippipotami · 29/08/2007 11:09

okay, this will sound odd BUT:

With ds, I was happy, loved up and on top of the world. He was cradled in my left arm.

With dd, I descended into a hazy black world of teary PND. I cradled her in my right arm.

I have photos to back this up (none digital, but have just gone through photo album)

I am right handed. Always have been.

DaisyMOO · 29/08/2007 13:15

gooseyloosey - surely it wouldn't even have been as many as 11 and 14 women - it says "of the mothers who were stressed 14% etc etc". So presumably less than 14% of the 79 in the study. If that makes sense

Bit of a joke of a study - sounds like someone trying to beef up their CV

thomcat · 29/08/2007 13:25

What a load of shit, fgs!

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