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Re: 'Happiest baby on the block' tips (just a thought)From: Shelie (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sat, 5 Jul 2003 20:33:10 -0500 (CDT)
At Sat, 5 Jul 2003, lorrie wrote: > >>From what I understand, Katya got this swaddling idea from a book titled >The Happiest Baby on the Block" by a pediatrician named Dr. Karp. A >search on the internet pulled up NOT ONE negative thing about him OR his >book. A search on Amazon revealed a 5 star average rating from 123 >people. The comments were glowing. There were no warnings that I found >from the Dept. of child services or any other organization about this >book, the author, or his ideas. There is a summary of the book at >http://www.abcnews.com for anyone that might like to satisfy their curiosity. > >Could it be that there is some jumping to conclusion going on? Perhaps a >misunderstanding? I mean calling someone a cruel mother and a child >abuser is a pretty harsh accusation. > >lorrie I have gone out and checked the reviews and Lorrie is right. In fact, there were a lot of reviews by doctors(peds) and other baby book authors and they all highly reccomended getting Dr. Karp's book. When I had my daughter 3 years ago the hospital swaddled the babies very tightly. In fact I thought they swaddled them a little too tight. The babies weren't able to move very much. They seemed to be perfectly content when this was done. Have any of you considered that maybe Katya and her husband might not be able to swaddle their daughter as tightly as she needs to feel secure? I don't find the duct taping abusive just odd. Especially since she has said her daughter is down to only being swaddled at night and she's barely 2 months old. Most people that wrote the reviews said the book was good for newborn up to 3 months old. Any older and you would have to look else were for help. I personally never liked using the mittens. I always found them to be too big. I used the newborn socks myself. For the record my daughter fell in the average range for her size. Another thing you can clip a baby's nails as close as you can get and they well still manage to scratch themselves. It does sound like there is a misunderstanding here.
-- Shelie
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