SIDS and safe t sleep – cruelty out of love? March 7, 2009
Posted by Megan in Belief in Baby’s Crys: Cry It Out/Controlled Cry, Beware the Baby Trainers, Marketing: Formula/Baby Apparel, Sleep issues: SIDS.add a comment
In writing this post I need you to visit the Safe T Sleep web site to see the photos for readers who do not know what this product is.
Often in other posts I have liked the correlation that Keith Sawyer (page 16 of PDF for photo) likened wrapping to the strapping down of patients be it hospital or institute.
Both web sites really need to be seen for the photos before you can understand what my view points are.
So the scoop is that SIDS NZ and Safe T Sleep® Partnership Announced
I have three issues with this ’scoop’
- SIDS NZ aligning themselves with marketing buying a product and the idea that something needs to be brought to keep children safe rather than parenting.
- If we follow SIDS guidelines from round the world and sleep with our babies with in arms reach i.e. a co-sleeper cot, the basinet…for goodness sake a banana box….the SIDS rates drop dramatically. Look at other co-sleeping countries like Sweden, Japan, Hong Kong.
- With this product I can see children being strapped down crying no matter what age…a tool to hold a child down.
My question is how often when it comes to our children do we do something out of love when in fact if we really look at the situation is quite cruel.
Yes this product might keep a child safe on its back and might ease a parents mind but what are we really allowing our selves by using this product to do to our children?
Young infants are often wrapped as we believe that they like the tight sensation. Often as parents who are frustrated with their children not keeping still, they will use this wrap as a way to keep their children in one place. I have written about wrapping before in this post wrapping baby to sleep
So is this Safe t sleep just another way to keep our children in place.
My personal thought is ‘wow even worse crying my self to sleep and not being able to move…new born to the ripe old age of 3′….3 years old now that is cruel. …what about toileting, what about needing to lay in a different position, what about bed sores….and I’m sure there are many other mental problems on top of the physical gained by using this ‘product’.
Jamie Oliver and understanding reluctance to change October 27, 2008
Posted by Megan in History: Cultural Beliefs and Society Pressures, Marketing: Formula/Baby Apparel.add a comment
We have just watching an episode of Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food. He’s trying to educate people in how to cook. Its very noble and I think he’s wonderful but it does not seem to be working and I’m sad for him cause I know he’s trying to make a change…and a good one at that.
The people he is trying to educate…people who live off of take-a-ways, prepackaged meals and opening a packet of chips…do not seem to understand the reasons why they should change their eating habits and learn how to cook.
Poor Jamie seems to be talking until he’s blue in the face about the health reasons, the social reasons and even the growth and developmental reasons…and his class of student are lapping it all up and agree….BUT!!! It does not seem to be a lasting interest or lasting change.
For someone who has eaten and done something in one way for such a long time – life…how can it be wrong? People can not ’see’ (often because the lack of looking) the issues that they do have with eating bad food. Many of us especially the people who have been chosen for this show have become very accepting. We do not question what is in our food any more…our choices have been taken away on how much we consume of certain parts of food like fat and salt because its already in there…our choices on what is actually in our food – the hidden wheat, soy, milk products, MSG and other countless additives which we don’t even know about.
Why do we not want to change?
The lack of knowing?
The lack of motivation?
The lack of self care…depressed?
It is very hard to change a habit especially with food…we have loves, we have excuses of the time that it takes the money that it costs. We have the fear of the unknown and the fear of being different from our friends and social community. There is also the fear of knowledge of knowing too much and of learning (yes it might sound strange to some but its there). We have a fear of offending the people we love too as often its our parents who have instilled these eating ways and ideas and also our partners ideas might not be inline with our own.
But what would happen if we did all this…if we worked hard…because its really hard work. What if we found a way to make it happen.
To start off with we would be confused, frustrated and want to go back to what was easiest. We would question everything and find little holes in which to use as an excuses to back out.
WHO LOOSES?
Health is important. Your own health and the health of your family.
Why am I talking about food and Jamie….because this aspect of food just goes to show that our choices may seem like choices…McD’s or BK….but they are not really choices.
We seem to be happy to follow the ‘norm’…because the Doctor said that I should have another c-section because I’ve already had one…but you have to have a scan….because we all stop at 6 months and start on formula…because there is no other way to get them to sleep you just have to let them cry.
Informed decisions are important part of health!
I don’t think I ever left that really annoying phase behind from the toddler stage
ASK WHY!
As with answering a toddler there can be many different replies….the part that really hurts is often the pack of chips still gets pulled out as the best food cause its so quick and easy and the health and choice gets shelved.
