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Worried about GF effect

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buttercup · 17/06/2002 20:49

I am worried that people take GF too far. I'm not against her ideas at all - I have used lots of them to establish a routine and turned to her many times to address feeding and sleeping problems. I have also used cc to great effect. However I worry that GF doesnt talk enough about the emotional needs of babies so that the smallest deviation in sleep causes us to panic. It seems perfectly normal to me that babies vary in their sleep patterns just like adults! I dont know many adults that sleep the same hours night after night without waking. I think she encourages parents to think too 'programatically' about babies' sleep and loose faith too quickly (just got disturbed from this coz mine woke up!). It upsets me when I read about parents of GF babies worrying about going to their children at night after sudden waking incase they create a bad pattern or thinking of cc after a couple of bad nights. Of course when wakefulness persists we all need to do something and I've been through this many times. But sometimes all thats needed is a few cuddles and a bit of reassurance and not a complete re-think of the whole routine. Is anyone with me or am I just taking her too seriously??

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oxocube · 20/06/2002 08:38

I don't own any how to guides, but I did buy a few pregnancy and birth books before my eldest was born and have just come across one of them this morning. This "definitive guide" to pregancy is by a Gordon Bourne and was originally published in the 70s. Just flicking through it now and had to smile reading his views on women and their role in society. Eg.

"In normal pregancy it is not usually recommended to work after the 29th week. A lot of women argue, however, that they have a sedentary occupation two minutes' walk from home and might as well go there and bash at the typewriter as stay at home and scrub the floor. Providing they are happy and the pregnancy is normal, there is no real reason why younger women should not continue to do a sedentary job, particularly in their first pregancy"

BRILLIANT

oxocube · 20/06/2002 08:39

Sorry, sorry, sorry !!

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