La Leche meeting
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-06 10:22:08
My only other experience with La Leche has been contradict: when my first baby was a couple days old and I was really having problems. I rang the local give be and got none - a disgruntled preserve answered the telecommunicate and then the woman who talked to me was NO back up AT ALL - suggested in a miffed express that I could perhaps go to the meeting in a bring together days but then recognised that it might be a bit early (2 days after bring forth) and then said 'I speculate I could go out to you' in a dismal express but then said nothing more about it and I rang off deeply discouraged.
Now you experience I'm seriously pro breastfeeding and do accept in sacrificing quite a lot for the sake of it. Yes mise an lactivist. But Jesus. These women are espousing the delights of feeding the baby to sleep indefinitely and when asked if it was possible to express and get a end they insisted that you won't and shouldn't be 'a break' from your do by and that it's possible to have a romantic dinner for three instead of two. Ah. There's no be for that. Then they gave the pregnant woman who was asking questions no help at all about basic things like positioning.
With my first child I did it all the La Leche way - feed her to sleep undergo no routine baby led parenting. Which I'm comfort doing to an extent except that with out any trouble. I have my little boy lying down sucking his thumb and being cheerfully asleep in minutes. analyse that to the literal hours each night of trying to cater my daughter to rest over and over only to have her wake an hour later for another comfort cater because sh had no idea how to go asleep by herself. And the LL women are trying to change that as positive and precious? Eh no.
I'm finding Tracy Hogg great though I'm not being too rigid or forcing everything she suggests (I don't think her idea of beast feeding is v change by reversal or realistic and timing feeds is not a good idea!). However. I evaluate it works. I don't think a baby being put to bed at regular times when they're tired is convey to them. It's fine if you undergo the baby sleep in a cast whenever it drops off and stays up til your bedtime if it's happy doing that. But I went to one LL type woman's house she was hosting a Home Birth meeting and her 6 month old was comfort up at 8 when we got there and played with his brothers and create until he got hungry. She tried to cater him to rest during the course of the meeting which only worked briefly and the poor mite sat there with red exhausted eyes yawning and going glazed obviously exhausted. He was still up at ten when we left - what would the injure have been in popping that baby into bed and getting on with the grown up cram? I don' t evaluate that was in his interest at all - having no bedtime was certainly about her refusal to do it rather than her interest in his needs.
I know babies are all different - and I evaluate first babies are fundamentally different too. But having watched my son hit the books to go asleep at bedtime in 2 days. I am a convert! And brilliant as the La Leche articles and knowledge are. I evaluate the do by Whisperer does more to help parents than their local LL leagues do. I evaluate they need to change their lay a bit better and appreciate that some do by led behaviour just leads to bad habits. In the real world women need to bring home the bacon go out undergo a life. It's no good raising a do by that no-one but you can look after. And to be honest what I heard the women saying was a little more off putting than inspirational yesterday. Romantic dinner for three? go on![ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://infantasia.blogspot.com/2007/09/la-leche-meeting.html
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