Claire Verity writes back

[Cocobear]

Anyone else seen this article from CV in the Daily Mail? (I would like to stress at this point that I found this via google search and not by buying a copy of the Daily Hatemail). It's a long-winded justification of her 'method'.

It's full of little gems: "For my critics, though, the most emotionally charged complaint relates to me saying that mothers should not cuddle a new baby for more than about ten minutes a day. It makes me seem cold and uncaring, perhaps. But it is a fact of life that brand new babies don't want to be picked up and held. Bless.

oh what a crock.
that woman is too thick to know how dangerous and unkind she is.
cow.

Has any family she has worked for come out to support her? I haven't heared of any?

My Mum was told to follow the Truby King method advocated by Claire Verity when I was a baby. It did not work (surprise, surprise) and my granny told her to pick me up, cuddle me, feed me on demand etc. Result - happy mother, happy baby.

Dear NoNameToday and for those who have questions with regards to the new research revealing very strong links between cot death and smoking during pregnancy/smoking parents:

"Nine out of 10 mothers whose babies suffered cot death smoked during pregnancy, according to a scientific study to be published this week. The study, thought to be one of the most authoritative to date on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), says women who smoke during pregnancy are four times more likely than non-smokers to see their child fall victim to cot death."

I have found this article to be very complete, interesting, and very alarming, please read it:
news.independent.co.uk/health/article3058899.ece

Dear Noname, I would like to answer you personally on the point that you made. I have a very good friend who is a midwife, and in the hospital where she works 8 out of 10 babies who need to stay in the Special Care Baby Unit after birth are from mothers who smoke. I was not making a judgement; my comments were based on facts.

I hope you will find the research interesting.

We do not know and we should not judge until we do, and even then, do we have the right?

I'm crap at making links: here it is again

news.independent.co.uk/health/article3058899.ece

or copy and paste this bit:
news.independent.co.uk/health/article3058899.ece

Dd was 10lb and exclusively b/fed to 6 months.

OMG Somebody has left a comment on the daily mail web page raving about her! Must be a first

But it is a fact of life that brand new babies don't want to be picked up and held.^

And it is afact that kittens and lambs do not want to be taken around Kirkby overblow in a fucking pushchair woman!
ARRRGHHHHHHH

This irritating, badly-behaved habit newborns have of having an ounce of milk, sleeping and then wanting another ounce..isn't that because their stomachs are the size of a peach stone???

It's a scientific fact that babies who are ignored/left to cry rather than being picked up and held don't have as many synapse connections made in their brain.

But what the hell do I know? I'm only a highly qualified health care professional who has worked with babies for over a decade.

ZOMBIE THREAD!!!