This is an article by Jan Hunt that I love: It's time to abolish the cradles?
From: Cuatroenlacama.
Two hundred years ago, Arthur Schopenhauer wrote that "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. "This observation certainly has stood the test of time. The writings of Copernicus, in claiming that the earth moves around the sun, were banned for decades, and led to the Inquisition to prosecute and convict Galileo to house arrest. Today, of course, the orbital motion of the earth is accepted as self-evident. "
Unfortunately, practices and beliefs of aging in the areas of sleep, feeding and discipline seem to move in the wrong direction. Our society has moved away from the confidence and progress towards an approach to children is unnatural, suspicious and aloof. Parents treat their children with the love and trust that was "self evident" for generations now face opposition and ridicule. In previous societies, the need for a child to be near their parents during the day and the night was a "self-evident truth" and the obvious way to meet that need was providing security, closeness and comfort. Throughout most of human history, mothers slept next to their babies, which promoted the bonding between them, and encouraged and facilitated breastfeeding.
Breastfed babies who sleep next to his mother three times more milk ingested during the night the babies isolated, enjoying así de un patrón nutricional más natural. Las madres que duermen al lado de sus niños también se sienten tranquilas sobre la seguridad de sus hijos. Bebés que duermen lejos de sus padres han fallecido en incendios, han sido abusados por parientes, secuestrados de sus camas, sofocado después de vomitar, han sido atacados por mascotas y han muerto o resultado heridos de numerosas otras maneras. Muchas - si no la mayoría - de estas tragedias pudieron ser evitadas de haber estado un padre presente y consciente del bienestar del bebé durante la noche. El colecho familiar puede también ayudar a prevenir abuso por parte de los padres al reducir el estrés de criar bebés y niños jóvenes. Un niño en una cama familiar not need to suffer unnecessarily or mourn to bring his mother and the mother can stay in bed and nurse semi-asleep.
Research has shown that comatose adults improve their heart rate, heart rate and blood pressure when someone is present. It seems reasonable to assume that infants and children receive similar benefits to having others around them during the night.
Many parents have found that siblings who share the night and built on a deep and lasting. And finally, sleep research by Dr. James McKenna, at the Center for Behavioral Studies of Mothers and Children Sleep, shows that the breath of a mother can provide important signals to your child, reminding him to take a breath after exhaling, thus reducing the possibility of sudden death. But parents of long ago (and most third-world countries today) did not need to weigh these advantages against other approaches, they simply followed their natural impulse to love, protect and nurture their children.
Why have not followed the path predicted by Schopenhauer? Why not leave the cradles, where many babies have died and many more have been injured? Why the numerous deaths and injuries in cribs did not lead to a call for its abandonment, or at least one change to the "co-sleeping cribs (cots partial assemble next to the bed of parents)? When babies are injured in a crib, never tells parents to avoid cribs; are told how to buy and use safer cribs. But when a baby dies in a family bed, the answer is completely different. Instead of being educated about safety factors, we are told that we never put our babies in adult beds - period.
Instead of advocating for an end to a settlement so ancient, beneficial and healthy, the causes of each situation must be investigated, and parents should be educated according to circumstances. Should be warned about the real dangers of bed sharing: intoxication, overmedication, use of water beds, blankets, loose or soft bedding, gaps between the mattress and the headboard and leave a baby unattended. If a baby dies in a car, they never tell us that we keep babies out of the car, we advise on security measures. The same approach should be used with co-sleeping.
The cradle requires babies to face the long night alone before they are psychologically equipped to do so. Teaches the harmful isolation of distrust, helplessness and despair, creating a deep sense of loneliness that no teddy bear can fill. Analyzing reports of adults in hypnotherapy, art therapy and psychoanalysis, the experiences of forced separation from parents during infancy and childhood is traumatic and long-term effects on adult personality.
Cribs, especially if they are located outside the room of parents, are dangerous in other ways too. A single baby has no protection against sexual and physical abuse secret. Separation during the night reduces the critical emotional attachment between parents and children and between siblings. Cots prevent working parents spend with their children authentic period of time it becomes available.
If given choice, there is probably no baby in the world would choose cold insulation on the loving closeness. The screams and cries of our babies should be more than enough to convince the emotional harm and the moral wrong of such separation. Why not hear what we work so hard to say?
The cribs are dangerous, and avoid involve parents quickly in emergencies. The Committee for Safety of Consumer Products in the U.S., the same organization that recently warned about family beds, has reported 40 to 50 crib deaths per year, and thousands of serious injuries. His own website is full warnings about the potential dangers of the use of cribs. However, never considered the possibility of abandoning the cribs. This is an absurd double standard that no one seems to question. Cots are
solitary cages for the babies, who deserve their age needs are met with love and compassion. Cots have absolutely no real advantage. Abandon the Cots!
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