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lightreadsCrib Sheet by Emily Oster
4/5. A how to decide book more than a how to book. E.g., what the data says about circumcision, potty training timing, safe sleep, etc. This book will clearly lay out which of the many supposed short and long term impacts of breastfeeding have actually been demonstrated to be true (a few, but not that many) but won't tell you how to breastfeed if you want to. I liked this and will keep it around for later references on sleep training and early education. And in general I found this to be a better book than her first.
Mostly, I'm just grateful for the section on the safety of light drinking while breastfeeding, because my god. I want a dark and stormy so bad right now, I could cry.
4/5. A how to decide book more than a how to book. E.g., what the data says about circumcision, potty training timing, safe sleep, etc. This book will clearly lay out which of the many supposed short and long term impacts of breastfeeding have actually been demonstrated to be true (a few, but not that many) but won't tell you how to breastfeed if you want to. I liked this and will keep it around for later references on sleep training and early education. And in general I found this to be a better book than her first.
Mostly, I'm just grateful for the section on the safety of light drinking while breastfeeding, because my god. I want a dark and stormy so bad right now, I could cry.
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Date: 2019-05-05 06:55 pm (UTC)Within a few weeks they'll be flipping over anyway and then you'll have no say about it. But the biological drive off protectiveness doesn't give up.
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Date: 2019-05-05 07:15 pm (UTC)Yes, I was just talking to my FiL about this who, like basically everyone up to the 90's, put his kids down on their tummies. The safe sleep campaigns have swung so hard the other direction that someone joked to me the other day that the next round of guidance will be something like "the only safe way for your baby to sleep is on his back, on a slab of concrete, in a room at 76 degrees, being watched by a parent at all times." It's....almost not funny. But yeah, FiL was startled by this too, looked into it, was convinced by the overwhelming data on the subject of stomach sleeping, and is now paranoid about what else we might not know that we don't know. I mean, he's going to worry about something, I guess...