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baby in separate room from mother at night?
I am thinking over the results I've seen in families where the baby
is, typically, nursed by the mother, and spends the night close to the mother, as compared to families where the baby is immediately put on formula and then sleeps in a room down the hall. There is this insidious "Ferberizing" process many young parents inflict upon their children in which they let their kids cry themselves to sleep at night until they get used to being without Mom and sleeping alone in their own little room. Oh, yes! Let's make the little guy 'tough' by making him cry, and then ignore his cries until he or she gets over it and becomes insensitive to whether they're sleeping with mom or not. (Is that insane, or what?) This neglect often goes along with putting these kids on formula. In my experience, it is NEVER a breastfeeding mother who also locks her child away in a room down the hall at night where they have to cry themselves to sleep! Looking at the results, that is, what becomes of this unfortunate child who is denied his or her mother's love, space, breastmilk and also physical protection, tells an ugly story. I know of a girl who was adopted into a very austere and Spartan household in which love was nothing but a 4-letter word, and the adoptive mother could not stand to be in the child's presence child for very long. The baby's room was down the hall, I guess so she could sometimes choose to ignore her when she cried. The adoptive mom THOUGHT she wanted to have a baby --then changed her mind. But she didn't give the baby to someone who would love her, she kept the baby, but just didn't LOVE her or make the child feel loved... Well, unfortunately for all concerned, that child no sooner got into her teens than she got into a syndrome of self-abuse by cutting herself in parallel lines on her arms and legs with knives and razor blades. She did this before she was half-way through high school. That child, as a grown woman, had at least one abortion and later became a lesbian. She has had absolutely no contact with her adoptive mother or father for many years now. Here is a second case, a businessman who, for his entire life, has hated his mother because she never told him she loved him, never, in his memory, hugged or kissed him, and kept him in a small dingy room down the hall throughout most of his childhood. She never breastfed him, she told him such a thing "freaked her out", she would not want a baby on her breast! This is a mother who STILL makes fun of her child and enjoys telling a roomful of guests nothing but unflattering stories about her boy. This man is now close to 50 years old, and he confided to me that he is still a virgin. Guess what? He says he has "issues" with his mother, and somehow ALL women seem to him to be a little bit LIKE his mother, therefore he has never had a successful relationship with an adult woman, not in the business world, nor in private. Women are "things" to be "consumed" as "eye candy" at a strip joint or sex magazine, but he cannot figure out how to get close to a woman -- not in real life! My point is very simple, and I'm sorry if I sound like I'm "preaching to the choir", but some of women reading this article MAY NOT be planning to hug and kiss and breastfeed their babies, and I really thought any such mothers-to-be out there ought to consider the consequences of a lack of intimacy with your baby! You have the AWESOME responsibility of raising either a well-adjusted, happy, mentally healthy child, one whom you keep close to your breast, and in your room... OR, participating in raising an unhappy, wretched little child whom you put away in a dark little room down the hall, whom you don't breastfeed, whom you make to be alone and lonesome, and who may very well grow up to be either a self-destructive self-mutilator, or possibly an inhuman, unfeeling, monster, a child who wants to give back to women exactly what his or her mother gave them in their childhood --- coldness and contempt! Remember, MOST of the contempt is actually reserved by the neglected child FOR HIS OR HER MOTHER. Think carefully, now, about how you decide to raise this baby! "Ferberize" and harm them? And lose their love and respect? Or, love them and be loved in return, both now and as long as you live! Which will it be? Is it really all that hard to decide? Best wishes & hoping you choose wisely, ------Ed http://www.breastpumppedal.com |
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"Ed Augusts" wrote in message ... I am thinking over the results I've seen in families where the baby is, typically, nursed by the mother, and spends the night close to the mother, as compared to families where the baby is immediately put on formula and then sleeps in a room down the hall. There is this insidious "Ferberizing" process many young parents inflict upon their children in which they let their kids cry themselves to sleep at night until they get used to being without Mom and sleeping alone in their own little room. Oh, yes! Let's make the little guy 'tough' by making him cry, and then ignore his cries until he or she gets over it and becomes insensitive to whether they're sleeping with mom or not. (Is that insane, or what?) This neglect often goes along with putting these kids on formula. In my experience, it is NEVER a breastfeeding mother who also locks her child away in a room down the hall at night where they have to cry themselves to sleep! Looking at the results, that is, what becomes of this unfortunate child who is denied his or her mother's love, space, breastmilk and also physical protection, tells an ugly story. I know of a girl who was adopted into a very austere and Spartan household in which love was nothing but a 4-letter word, and the adoptive mother could not stand to be in the child's presence child for very long. The baby's room was down the hall, I guess so she could sometimes choose to ignore her when she cried. The adoptive mom THOUGHT she wanted to have a baby --then changed her mind. But she didn't give the baby to someone who would love her, she kept the baby, but just didn't LOVE her or make the child feel loved... Well, unfortunately for all concerned, that child no sooner got into her teens than she got into a syndrome of self-abuse by cutting herself in parallel lines on her arms and legs with knives and razor blades. She did this before she was half-way through high school. That child, as a grown woman, had at least one abortion and later became a lesbian. She has had absolutely no contact with her adoptive mother or father for many years now. Here is a second case, a businessman who, for his entire life, has hated his mother because she never told him she loved him, never, in his memory, hugged or kissed him, and kept him in a small dingy room down the hall throughout most of his childhood. She never breastfed him, she told him such a thing "freaked her out", she would not want a baby on her breast! This is a mother who STILL makes fun of her child and enjoys telling a roomful of guests nothing but unflattering stories about her boy. This man is now close to 50 years old, and he confided to me that he is still a virgin. Guess what? He says he has "issues" with his mother, and somehow ALL women seem to him to be a little bit LIKE his mother, therefore he has never had a successful relationship with an adult woman, not in the business world, nor in private. Women are "things" to be "consumed" as "eye candy" at a strip joint or sex magazine, but he cannot figure out how to get close to a woman -- not in real life! My point is very simple, and I'm sorry if I sound like I'm "preaching to the choir", but some of women reading this article MAY NOT be planning to hug and kiss and breastfeed their babies, and I really thought any such mothers-to-be out there ought to consider the consequences of a lack of intimacy with your baby! You have the AWESOME responsibility of raising either a well-adjusted, happy, mentally healthy child, one whom you keep close to your breast, and in your room... OR, participating in raising an unhappy, wretched little child whom you put away in a dark little room down the hall, whom you don't breastfeed, whom you make to be alone and lonesome, and who may very well grow up to be either a self-destructive self-mutilator, or possibly an inhuman, unfeeling, monster, a child who wants to give back to women exactly what his or her mother gave them in their childhood --- coldness and contempt! Remember, MOST of the contempt is actually reserved by the neglected child FOR HIS OR HER MOTHER. Think carefully, now, about how you decide to raise this baby! "Ferberize" and harm them? And lose their love and respect? Or, love them and be loved in return, both now and as long as you live! Which will it be? Is it really all that hard to decide? Best wishes & hoping you choose wisely, ------Ed http://www.breastpumppedal.com So, Ed, how many kids do you have? I'm assuming you must have some in order to 'preach', Or that you must have lived with these families you speak of? |
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On Apr 21, 2:29*am, "lu-lu" wrote:
"Ed Augusts" wrote in message ... I am thinking over the results I've seen in families where the baby is, typically, nursed by the mother, and spends the night close to the mother, as compared to families where the baby is immediately put on formula and then sleeps in a room down the hall. *There is this insidious "Ferberizing" process many young parents inflict upon their children in which they let their kids cry themselves to sleep at night until they get used to being without Mom and sleeping alone in their own little room. *Oh, yes! *Let's make the little guy 'tough' by making him cry, and then ignore his cries until he or she gets over it and becomes insensitive to whether they're sleeping with mom or not. (Is that insane, or what?) *This neglect often goes along with putting these kids on formula. *In my experience, it is NEVER a breastfeeding mother who also locks her child away in a room down the hall at night where they have to cry themselves to sleep! Looking at the results, that is, what becomes of this unfortunate child who is denied his or her mother's love, space, breastmilk and also physical protection, tells an ugly story. I know of a girl who was adopted into a very austere and Spartan household in which love was nothing but a 4-letter word, *and the adoptive mother could not stand to be in the child's presence child for very long. The baby's room was down the hall, I guess so she could sometimes choose to ignore her when she cried. *The adoptive mom THOUGHT she wanted to have a baby --then changed her mind. *But she didn't give the baby to someone who would love her, she kept the baby, but just didn't LOVE her or make the child feel loved... Well, unfortunately for all concerned, that child no sooner got into her teens than she got into a syndrome of self-abuse by cutting herself in parallel lines on her arms and legs with knives and razor blades. *She did this before she was half-way through high school. *That child, as a grown woman, had at least one abortion and later became a lesbian. She has had absolutely no contact with her adoptive mother or father for many years now. Here is a second case, a businessman who, for his entire life, has hated his mother because she never told him she loved him, never, in his memory, hugged or kissed him, and kept him in a small dingy room down the hall throughout most of his childhood. *She never breastfed him, she told him such a thing "freaked her out", she would not want a baby on her breast! *This is a mother who STILL makes fun of her child and enjoys telling a roomful of guests nothing but unflattering stories about her boy. *This man is now close to 50 years old, and he confided to me that he is still a virgin. *Guess what? *He says he has "issues" with his mother, and somehow ALL women seem to him to be a little bit LIKE his mother, therefore he has never had a successful relationship with an adult woman, not in the business world, nor in private. Women are "things" to be "consumed" as "eye candy" at a strip joint or sex magazine, but he cannot figure out how to get close to a woman -- *not in real life! My point is very simple, and I'm sorry if I sound like I'm "preaching to the choir", but some of women reading this article MAY NOT be planning to hug and kiss and breastfeed their babies, and I really thought any such mothers-to-be out there ought to consider the consequences of a lack of intimacy with your baby! *You have the AWESOME responsibility of raising either a well-adjusted, happy, mentally healthy child, one whom you keep close to your breast, and in your room... OR, *participating in raising an unhappy, wretched little child whom you put away in a dark little room down the hall, *whom you don't breastfeed, whom you make to be alone and lonesome, and who may very well grow up to be either a self-destructive self-mutilator, or possibly an inhuman, unfeeling, monster, a child who wants to give back to women exactly what his or her mother gave them in their childhood --- coldness and contempt! *Remember, MOST of the contempt is actually reserved by the neglected child FOR HIS OR HER MOTHER. Think carefully, now, about how you decide to raise this baby! "Ferberize" and harm them? *And lose their love and respect? * Or, love them and be loved in return, both now and as long as you live! Which will it be? *Is it really all that hard to decide? Best wishes & hoping you choose wisely, *------Ed http://www.breastpumppedal.com So, Ed, how many kids do you have? I'm assuming you must have some in order to 'preach', Or that you must have lived with these families you speak of?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I don't mean to 'preach', but I'm 59 years old which is plenty old enough to see the results of all kinds of various systems of raising children. I like to give information about definite cases, definite individuals, so I'm puzzled why I get anti-Ed remarks, "Who are YOU to preach, buddy?" instead of someone saying "I've known such-and-so-many children who were all raised on formula and whose moms didn't show them much warmth, and they've all grown up just fine!" I don't see those kinds of remarks because I think the truth is, children who are deprived of affection by their mothers or other caretakers, which includes nursing them, DO NOT grow up as successfully as very much LOVED children do. If anyone is shamed or embarrassed that they DID NOT love their children enough when they were babies and tots, and realizes now that personality deficits and behavior problems, stunted emotional and physical development, etc., may very well be due to not "being there" for their baby, well, I'm sorry about that, I really am! Perhaps it is more politically correct to not talk about this issue at all? Is that what you folks are saying? Don't rock the boat of public opinion that states "go ahead and abandon your baby in an empty room at night, their crying, their loneliness, doesn't matter!" Yes, I have indeed lived with the families I mention, although that was on another USENET group where I listed five children who had been breastfed for 2 years or longer, and who slept very close to their mothers; and reported on their particular, individual, scientific, musical, artistic, and literary talents, which were often exceptional; also on the fact they never had to take any medications to control any behavior problems, nor did they display any signs of ill-health. What I was HOPING was that someone would jump in with additional support from their own experiences raising children, and if they want to posit a contrary point of view, that they would do so using evidence of X-number of children who were formula-fed and slept in a different room from their mom. But so far, aside from a few snippy remarks, nobody has stepped forward with any evidence! THAT surprises me! Best, -----e.a. http://www.breastpumppedal.com |
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Ed Augusts wrote:
I don't mean to 'preach', Oh, I think that it's quite clear you *do* want to preach. Otherwise, why the fire and brimstone. instead of someone saying "I've known such-and-so-many children who were all raised on formula and whose moms didn't show them much warmth, and they've all grown up just fine!" Some folks might be thinking that a response that equates formula feeding with frigidity doesn't merit much response. Also the notions that separate rooms equate to abandonment, or that parents who do not co-sleep or breastfeed don't love their children. But so far, aside from a few snippy remarks, nobody has stepped forward with any evidence! THAT surprises me! If you walked into a room in person and spewed the sort of venom you just did in this newsgroup, would you expect to be received warmly and have folks exchange information in a logical fashion with you? I rather suspect you'd have had better manners than to do that in person, yet you somehow think that you can waltz into *this* group and insult long term participants who are loving and effective mothers and fathers, yet who did not breastfeed or co-sleep (often for darned good reasons you have no right to judge) and be treated differently? You will find plenty of breastfeeding and co-sleeping advocates in this newsgroup. They just have better manners, and therefore experience a much better reception, not to mention having a much high likelihood of persuading others to share their opinions. Best wishes, Ericka |
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On Apr 21, 2:23*pm, Ericka Kammerer wrote:
Ed Augusts wrote: I don't mean to 'preach', * * * * Oh, I think that it's quite clear you *do* want to preach. *Otherwise, why the fire and brimstone. instead of someone saying "I've known such-and-so-many children who were all raised on formula and whose moms didn't show them much warmth, and they've all grown up just fine!" * * * * Some folks might be thinking that a response that equates formula feeding with frigidity doesn't merit much response. *Also the notions that separate rooms equate to abandonment, or that parents who do not co-sleep or breastfeed don't love their children. But so far, aside from a few snippy remarks, nobody has stepped forward with any evidence! *THAT surprises me! * * * * If you walked into a room in person and spewed the sort of venom you just did in this newsgroup, would you expect to be received warmly and have folks exchange information in a logical fashion with you? *I rather suspect you'd have had better manners than to do that in person, yet you somehow think that you can waltz into *this* group and insult long term participants who are loving and effective mothers and fathers, yet who did not breastfeed or co-sleep (often for darned good reasons you have no right to judge) and be treated differently? * * * * You will find plenty of breastfeeding and co-sleeping advocates in this newsgroup. *They just have better manners, and therefore experience a much better reception, not to mention having a much high likelihood of persuading others to share their opinions. Best wishes, Ericka I will take to heart what you've said, and quiet down and stay in 'my place' -- I know when I'm basically being called "just a guy, so who cares what he thinks or says?". This is a woman's world here. Though I've been involved with helping market some very useful products for women and babies and thus this topic of prolonged breastfeeding and various kinds of nurturing experiences in motherhood came up, and seemed important to me; I'm sorry if I haven't been steeped in the history of this particular Group and thus seem like an intruder, such was not my intention! I thought anybody could post here, and that my efforts would be appreciated and also cause some debate. Debate isn't bad, but I don't see debate, I see aggression aimed in my direction! Oh, well! I was trying to post some ON-TOPIC stuff inbetween all the very unfortunate travel, personal accessory, viagra, and XXX rated SPAM that gets dumped on these mother- and child-related USENET groups. After seeing 10 pieces of obnoxious SPAM in a row, I thought posting something of possible interest about moms & babies might be acceptable, but I guess I was wrong! --------Ed www.breastpumppedal.com |
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Ed Augusts wrote:
I will take to heart what you've said, and quiet down and stay in 'my place' -- I know when I'm basically being called "just a guy, so who cares what he thinks or says?". Where did I or anyone else suggest that the problem is that you're male? Men are welcome here, and are welcome to have opinions and share them. Men or women who come spewing gross overgeneralizations and invective are the ones likely to receive a more chilly reception. This is a woman's world here. Though I've been involved with helping market some very useful products for women and babies Hmmm...do we now see the motivation here? Marketing perhaps? Spam is not welcome, but you are certainly encouraged to be a genuine participant in this newsgroup. If you are hoping to promote your product, I can guarantee you that posts insulting many of the fine parents in this group who aren't following your parenting program is not a great way to get others to buy into your views or your products. and thus this topic of prolonged breastfeeding and various kinds of nurturing experiences in motherhood came up, and seemed important to me; I'm sorry if I haven't been steeped in the history of this particular Group and thus seem like an intruder, such was not my intention! I thought anybody could post here, and that my efforts would be appreciated and also cause some debate. Debate isn't bad, but I don't see debate, I see aggression aimed in my direction! Because you started with aggression, it is not so surprising that you received some in return. You'll find this is a group that is generally respectful of different parenting choices, especially from folks who don't start insulting those who don't share their choices. Best wishes, Ericka |
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"Ed Augusts" wrote in message
... On Apr 21, 2:29 am, "lu-lu" wrote: "Ed Augusts" wrote in message ... I am thinking over the results I've seen in families where the baby is, typically, nursed by the mother, and spends the night close to the mother, as compared to families where the baby is immediately put on formula and then sleeps in a room down the hall. There is this insidious "Ferberizing" process many young parents inflict upon their children in which they let their kids cry themselves to sleep at night until they get used to being without Mom and sleeping alone in their own little room. Oh, yes! Let's make the little guy 'tough' by making him cry, and then ignore his cries until he or she gets over it and becomes insensitive to whether they're sleeping with mom or not. (Is that insane, or what?) This neglect often goes along with putting these kids on formula. In my experience, it is NEVER a breastfeeding mother who also locks her child away in a room down the hall at night where they have to cry themselves to sleep! Looking at the results, that is, what becomes of this unfortunate child who is denied his or her mother's love, space, breastmilk and also physical protection, tells an ugly story. I know of a girl who was adopted into a very austere and Spartan household in which love was nothing but a 4-letter word, and the adoptive mother could not stand to be in the child's presence child for very long. The baby's room was down the hall, I guess so she could sometimes choose to ignore her when she cried. The adoptive mom THOUGHT she wanted to have a baby --then changed her mind. But she didn't give the baby to someone who would love her, she kept the baby, but just didn't LOVE her or make the child feel loved... Well, unfortunately for all concerned, that child no sooner got into her teens than she got into a syndrome of self-abuse by cutting herself in parallel lines on her arms and legs with knives and razor blades. She did this before she was half-way through high school. That child, as a grown woman, had at least one abortion and later became a lesbian. She has had absolutely no contact with her adoptive mother or father for many years now. Here is a second case, a businessman who, for his entire life, has hated his mother because she never told him she loved him, never, in his memory, hugged or kissed him, and kept him in a small dingy room down the hall throughout most of his childhood. She never breastfed him, she told him such a thing "freaked her out", she would not want a baby on her breast! This is a mother who STILL makes fun of her child and enjoys telling a roomful of guests nothing but unflattering stories about her boy. This man is now close to 50 years old, and he confided to me that he is still a virgin. Guess what? He says he has "issues" with his mother, and somehow ALL women seem to him to be a little bit LIKE his mother, therefore he has never had a successful relationship with an adult woman, not in the business world, nor in private. Women are "things" to be "consumed" as "eye candy" at a strip joint or sex magazine, but he cannot figure out how to get close to a woman -- not in real life! My point is very simple, and I'm sorry if I sound like I'm "preaching to the choir", but some of women reading this article MAY NOT be planning to hug and kiss and breastfeed their babies, and I really thought any such mothers-to-be out there ought to consider the consequences of a lack of intimacy with your baby! You have the AWESOME responsibility of raising either a well-adjusted, happy, mentally healthy child, one whom you keep close to your breast, and in your room... OR, participating in raising an unhappy, wretched little child whom you put away in a dark little room down the hall, whom you don't breastfeed, whom you make to be alone and lonesome, and who may very well grow up to be either a self-destructive self-mutilator, or possibly an inhuman, unfeeling, monster, a child who wants to give back to women exactly what his or her mother gave them in their childhood --- coldness and contempt! Remember, MOST of the contempt is actually reserved by the neglected child FOR HIS OR HER MOTHER. Think carefully, now, about how you decide to raise this baby! "Ferberize" and harm them? And lose their love and respect? Or, love them and be loved in return, both now and as long as you live! Which will it be? Is it really all that hard to decide? Best wishes & hoping you choose wisely, ------Ed http://www.breastpumppedal.com So, Ed, how many kids do you have? I'm assuming you must have some in order to 'preach', Or that you must have lived with these families you speak of?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I don't mean to 'preach', but I'm 59 years old which is plenty old enough to see the results of all kinds of various systems of raising children. You did mean to preach, which is what got you into trouble. That and the fact that your whole post was a veiled attempt to be a part of this group so you could continue to push your "friend's" website. Rather transparent, which is part of the reason you got the reception you did -- that, and the offensive content of your post. So how many children do you have? I like to give information about definite cases, definite individuals, so I'm puzzled why I get anti-Ed remarks, "Who are YOU to preach, buddy?" instead of someone saying "I've known such-and-so-many children who were all raised on formula and whose moms didn't show them much warmth, and they've all grown up just fine!" As I already pointed out, while your individual cases may be interesting, they are not useful in proving anything. Ericka already mentioned some actual studies, in which the answers between formula and breastfeeding are much less clear cut than you seem to think. Perhaps if your post had not been so in your face rude, and offended so many people in the process, you might have been able to engage in a civil discussion. Instead, you basically bash strangers and insult their mothering, by telling us that unless we colseep and breasrfeed, our children will end up with emotional problems and fail in life. And you wonder why we didn't receive you with open arms. I don't see those kinds of remarks because I think the truth is, children who are deprived of affection by their mothers or other caretakers, which includes nursing them, DO NOT grow up as successfully as very much LOVED children do. Bull****. Stop equating breastfeeding and cosleeping to love. You are offensive and rude. Are you saying that father's aren't capable of loving their children, because they can't breastfeed them? Lordy. Of course children who are neglected and deprived of love will likely have emotional problems, but that has nothing to do with how they are fed and where they slept. Millions and millions of children were bottle fed and slept in their own rooms and were incredibly loved and cherished and adored and grew up to be happy successful people. If anyone is shamed or embarrassed that they DID NOT love their children enough when they were babies and tots, and realizes now that personality deficits and behavior problems, stunted emotional and physical development, etc., may very well be due to not "being there" for their baby, well, I'm sorry about that, I really am! Perhaps it is more politically correct to not talk about this issue at all? Is that what you folks are saying? Don't rock the boat of public opinion that states "go ahead and abandon your baby in an empty room at night, their crying, their loneliness, doesn't matter!" I'm resisting the urge to tell you to "F" off here, Ed. Really I am. Yes, I have indeed lived with the families I mention, although that was on another USENET group where I listed five children who had been breastfed for 2 years or longer, and who slept very close to their mothers; and reported on their particular, individual, scientific, musical, artistic, and literary talents, which were often exceptional; also on the fact they never had to take any medications to control any behavior problems, nor did they display any signs of ill-health. What I was HOPING was that someone would jump in with additional support from their own experiences raising children, and if they want to posit a contrary point of view, that they would do so using evidence of X-number of children who were formula-fed and slept in a different room from their mom. But so far, aside from a few snippy remarks, nobody has stepped forward with any evidence! THAT surprises me! You walk into a room claiming the sky is lime green, ranting and raving about it, and are suprised that no one is stepping forward with any evidence that the sky is NOT lime green? My dad taught me years ago, you never argue with crazy. -- Jamie Clark |
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On Apr 21, 9:58 pm, Ed Augusts wrote:
I like to give information about definite cases, definite individuals And you then assume that those individual cases can be generalised. So, you see two people who were emotionally neglected and, in the second case, abused, and who also happened to be formula-fed and sleep in separate rooms. And you then appear to have leaped from this information to an assumption that *all* formula-fed babies and/or *all* babies who sleep in separate rooms from their parents (two groups which you appear to consider synonymous) are similarly neglected. This is such an elementary error of logic that it's very hard to believe that you can't spot it. There's probably even a name for it, though I haven't time to look it up right now. so I'm puzzled why I get anti-Ed remarks, "Who are YOU to preach, buddy?" instead of someone saying "I've known such-and-so-many children who were all raised on formula and whose moms didn't show them much warmth, and they've all grown up just fine!" Actually, Ed, I was raised on formula and my mother showed me plenty of warmth. I don't know whether or not I slept in the same room as her as a baby, nor do I care - it's irrelevant. The important thing is that my mother was extremely warm, caring, and affectionate throughout my childhood (and adulthood). And, yes, I grew up just fine. (If you want details; I'm a successful doctor, happily married, and have two children.) My sister slept in her own room as a baby, but was breastfed. Our mother was just as warm and caring to her, and she has also turned out just fine. My son was breastfed until the age of sixteen months and slept in the same room as us until he was twenty-two months. During this time he was also sleep trained, by a method that used the basic principle of the Ferber method (the exact details were different). The reason for this was not to make him 'tough', but because it was the ultimately the only way of dealing with the fact that he didn't want to go to sleep at bedtime - keeping him up when he was tired, or sitting with him until he went to sleep, just made him even more annoyed, and eventually the only way to convince him that it was bedtime was to walk out of the room and leave him alone for a bit. So that's what I did. He is lovingly cared for full-time by myself and my husband, with lots of hugs, affection, and attention. At the age of three, he's happy, confident, and loves life. Funny how real people don't fit into your neat little stereotypes, isn't it? Perhaps it is more politically correct to not talk about this issue at all? Is that what you folks are saying? No, Ed. We're saying that it's factually incorrect to say the things about it that you're saying. From what you say, it appears that you think that if a woman is formula feeding, or if she puts her child to sleep in a separate room, or if she uses sleep training, then it can automatically be assumed that a) she must be doing *all* those things, and b) she is also neglecting and possibly abusing the child. It's the latter assumption that is putting people's backs up. I don't think anyone disagrees with the idea that if a parent is emotionally neglectful and/or abusive then that is likely to cause emotional damage in the children. What we are disagreeing with, not to mention vehemently objecting to, is your heavy implication that all mothers who formula-feed, or who put children to sleep in a separate room, or who sleep train, are also being emotionally neglectful. Rubbish. Oh, and one last thing: Being a lesbian is not a sign of emotional maladjustment, and does not belong on your list of Dreadful Fates These Poor Children Suffered. Please do not make it sound that way. Sarah -- http://www.goodenoughmummy.typepad.com |
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According to you, there are only two options -- you either breastfeed,
co-sleep and love your child, and said child will be "well-adjusted, happy and mentally healthy," or you bottle/formula feed, ignore your child's cries and neglect them, and your child will be "a self-destructive self-mutilator, or possibly an inhuman, unfeeling, monster, a child who wants to give back to women exactly what his or her mother gave them in their childhood." Doi. Don't forget lesbian. You're a moron, Ed. And your "sample" of two does not prove anything. It is possible to bottle/formula feed and have your child sleep in their own room in a crib without damning them to hell and a lifetime of relationship issues and therapy. Of course not showing love to a baby and child can damage that child, but that has nothing to do with breast or bottle feeding, co-sleeping or crib sleeping. Nor does it have anything to do with bio or adopted. -- Jamie Clark "Ed Augusts" wrote in message ... I am thinking over the results I've seen in families where the baby is, typically, nursed by the mother, and spends the night close to the mother, as compared to families where the baby is immediately put on formula and then sleeps in a room down the hall. There is this insidious "Ferberizing" process many young parents inflict upon their children in which they let their kids cry themselves to sleep at night until they get used to being without Mom and sleeping alone in their own little room. Oh, yes! Let's make the little guy 'tough' by making him cry, and then ignore his cries until he or she gets over it and becomes insensitive to whether they're sleeping with mom or not. (Is that insane, or what?) This neglect often goes along with putting these kids on formula. In my experience, it is NEVER a breastfeeding mother who also locks her child away in a room down the hall at night where they have to cry themselves to sleep! Looking at the results, that is, what becomes of this unfortunate child who is denied his or her mother's love, space, breastmilk and also physical protection, tells an ugly story. I know of a girl who was adopted into a very austere and Spartan household in which love was nothing but a 4-letter word, and the adoptive mother could not stand to be in the child's presence child for very long. The baby's room was down the hall, I guess so she could sometimes choose to ignore her when she cried. The adoptive mom THOUGHT she wanted to have a baby --then changed her mind. But she didn't give the baby to someone who would love her, she kept the baby, but just didn't LOVE her or make the child feel loved... Well, unfortunately for all concerned, that child no sooner got into her teens than she got into a syndrome of self-abuse by cutting herself in parallel lines on her arms and legs with knives and razor blades. She did this before she was half-way through high school. That child, as a grown woman, had at least one abortion and later became a lesbian. She has had absolutely no contact with her adoptive mother or father for many years now. Here is a second case, a businessman who, for his entire life, has hated his mother because she never told him she loved him, never, in his memory, hugged or kissed him, and kept him in a small dingy room down the hall throughout most of his childhood. She never breastfed him, she told him such a thing "freaked her out", she would not want a baby on her breast! This is a mother who STILL makes fun of her child and enjoys telling a roomful of guests nothing but unflattering stories about her boy. This man is now close to 50 years old, and he confided to me that he is still a virgin. Guess what? He says he has "issues" with his mother, and somehow ALL women seem to him to be a little bit LIKE his mother, therefore he has never had a successful relationship with an adult woman, not in the business world, nor in private. Women are "things" to be "consumed" as "eye candy" at a strip joint or sex magazine, but he cannot figure out how to get close to a woman -- not in real life! My point is very simple, and I'm sorry if I sound like I'm "preaching to the choir", but some of women reading this article MAY NOT be planning to hug and kiss and breastfeed their babies, and I really thought any such mothers-to-be out there ought to consider the consequences of a lack of intimacy with your baby! You have the AWESOME responsibility of raising either a well-adjusted, happy, mentally healthy child, one whom you keep close to your breast, and in your room... OR, participating in raising an unhappy, wretched little child whom you put away in a dark little room down the hall, whom you don't breastfeed, whom you make to be alone and lonesome, and who may very well grow up to be either a self-destructive self-mutilator, or possibly an inhuman, unfeeling, monster, a child who wants to give back to women exactly what his or her mother gave them in their childhood --- coldness and contempt! Remember, MOST of the contempt is actually reserved by the neglected child FOR HIS OR HER MOTHER. Think carefully, now, about how you decide to raise this baby! "Ferberize" and harm them? And lose their love and respect? Or, love them and be loved in return, both now and as long as you live! Which will it be? Is it really all that hard to decide? Best wishes & hoping you choose wisely, ------Ed http://www.breastpumppedal.com |
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Hi, I was giving some examples from real life people who have told me
their 'bio', which is more than you have done. One, the female friend, went into a depression punctuated with suicidal anger when she found out she was pregnant, and she wouldn't stand for there being any chance that a child born to her could possibly grow up to be neglected and unloved as she was, and thus the only thing she could think to do was terminate the pregnancy,. I witnessed her despair, so don't be so quick to make light of her as "proving nothing". The people I've seen who were not shown the deepest love and affection by their parents and caretakers turned out to be miserable adults. You are going 'ad hominem', in your put-down comments and disregarding the essence of what I have said, while at the same time, you haven't come up with ANY examples of any children that tend to show that anything I've said doesn't point in the right direction. Come on! Put up or shut up! Give us YOUR list of kids who were fed on formula and spent the night in a room by themselves, and tell me what kind of teenagers and adults they turned into... please! Obviously, from your icy words below, you believe in denying a baby the comfort of being rocked and nursed and mothered, and sleeping right next to its mother, in favor of a colder, more efficient, love- depriving and cynical philosophy, of "toughening-up" the kid by putting him or her in an empty rooim, that is, a room without the presence of the mother. Shame on you! All I can do is feel sorry for any babies that YOU have had or taken care of. So, please! Authority about children! Please do comment about the results you have had with YOUR particular childcare system? Anything the matter? How'd you do with your love-and-warmth-deprivation system? Did I hit a bit TOO close to home, is that the reason for your angry outburst? ---e.a. On Apr 21, 8:45*am, "Jamie Clark" wrote: According to you, there are only two options -- you either breastfeed, co-sleep and love your child, and said child will be "well-adjusted, happy and mentally healthy," or you bottle/formula feed, ignore your child's cries and neglect them, and your child will be "a self-destructive self-mutilator, or possibly an inhuman, unfeeling, monster, a child who wants to give back to women exactly what his or her mother gave them in their childhood." *Doi. Don't forget lesbian. You're a moron, Ed. *And your "sample" of two does not prove anything. It is possible to bottle/formula feed and have your child sleep in their own room in a crib without damning them to hell and a lifetime of relationship issues and therapy. Of course not showing love to a baby and child can damage that child, but that has nothing to do with breast or bottle feeding, co-sleeping or crib sleeping. *Nor does it have anything to do with bio or adopted. -- Jamie Clark "Ed Augusts" wrote in message ... I am thinking over the results I've seen in families where the baby is, typically, nursed by the mother, and spends the night close to the mother, as compared to families where the baby is immediately put on formula and then sleeps in a room down the hall. *There is this insidious "Ferberizing" process many young parents inflict upon their children in which they let their kids cry themselves to sleep at night until they get used to being without Mom and sleeping alone in their own little room. *Oh, yes! *Let's make the little guy 'tough' by making him cry, and then ignore his cries until he or she gets over it and becomes insensitive to whether they're sleeping with mom or not. (Is that insane, or what?) *This neglect often goes along with putting these kids on formula. *In my experience, it is NEVER a breastfeeding mother who also locks her child away in a room down the hall at night where they have to cry themselves to sleep! Looking at the results, that is, what becomes of this unfortunate child who is denied his or her mother's love, space, breastmilk and also physical protection, tells an ugly story. I know of a girl who was adopted into a very austere and Spartan household in which love was nothing but a 4-letter word, *and the adoptive mother could not stand to be in the child's presence child for very long. The baby's room was down the hall, I guess so she could sometimes choose to ignore her when she cried. *The adoptive mom THOUGHT she wanted to have a baby --then changed her mind. *But she didn't give the baby to someone who would love her, she kept the baby, but just didn't LOVE her or make the child feel loved... Well, unfortunately for all concerned, that child no sooner got into her teens than she got into a syndrome of self-abuse by cutting herself in parallel lines on her arms and legs with knives and razor blades. *She did this before she was half-way through high school. *That child, as a grown woman, had at least one abortion and later became a lesbian. She has had absolutely no contact with her adoptive mother or father for many years now. Here is a second case, a businessman who, for his entire life, has hated his mother because she never told him she loved him, never, in his memory, hugged or kissed him, and kept him in a small dingy room down the hall throughout most of his childhood. *She never breastfed him, she told him such a thing "freaked her out", she would not want a baby on her breast! *This is a mother who STILL makes fun of her child and enjoys telling a roomful of guests nothing but unflattering stories about her boy. *This man is now close to 50 years old, and he confided to me that he is still a virgin. *Guess what? *He says he has "issues" with his mother, and somehow ALL women seem to him to be a little bit LIKE his mother, therefore he has never had a successful relationship with an adult woman, not in the business world, nor in private. Women are "things" to be "consumed" as "eye candy" at a strip joint or sex magazine, but he cannot figure out how to get close to a woman -- *not in real life! My point is very simple, and I'm sorry if I sound like I'm "preaching to the choir", but some of women reading this article MAY NOT be planning to hug and kiss and breastfeed their babies, and I really thought any such mothers-to-be out there ought to consider the consequences of a lack of intimacy with your baby! *You have the AWESOME responsibility of raising either a well-adjusted, happy, mentally healthy child, one whom you keep close to your breast, and in your room... OR, *participating in raising an unhappy, wretched little child whom you put away in a dark little room down the hall, *whom you don't breastfeed, whom you make to be alone and lonesome, and who may very well grow up to be either a self-destructive self-mutilator, or possibly an inhuman, unfeeling, monster, a child who wants to give back to women exactly what his or her mother gave them in their childhood --- coldness and contempt! *Remember, MOST of the contempt is actually reserved by the neglected child FOR HIS OR HER MOTHER. Think carefully, now, about how you decide to raise this baby! "Ferberize" and harm them? *And lose their love and respect? * Or, love them and be loved in return, both now and as long as you live! Which will it be? *Is it really all that hard to decide? Best wishes & hoping you choose wisely, *------Ed http://www.breastpumppedal.com- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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