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Will I Spoil My Baby If I Carry Her in a Sling?

Baby Reference
With the birth of Dr. Palmer's son in 1995, she was confronted with his severe health complications and astounded by the extreme lack of accurate or helpful information from doctors or books. Her usual passion for research turned toward infant health and parenting. Her extensive reviews of science and medical research revealed huge conflicts between what is found scientifically and what is standard protocol in pediatric offices. Her research in this area led to writing Baby Matters.

Children Need Touching and Attention, Harvard Researchers Say
By Alvin Powell
Contributing Writer
America's "let them cry" attitude toward children may lead to more fears and tears among adults, according to two Harvard Medical School researchers.

Children's Connection
A mothers touch can help baby grow

Choosing a Carrier

Emotional Learning in Infants: A Cross-Cultural Examination
The current paper examines subcortically based early emotional learning in infants from
diverse cultures. We speculate about some longterm deleterious or beneficial effects of this early learning.

Hold Me Close: The Many Advantages to Wearing Your Baby
By Christine Gross-Loh
Issue 113, July/August 2002

In Touch
Over the Shoulder Baby Holder Newsletter for distributors, educators, and caregivers. Neurophysiological Benefits of the baby sling. By Susanne Smith Roley M. S., O.T.R.

Kangaroo Care
'High Touch in a High Tech World', by Judith P. Gundersen, RN, BSN, FACCE

Mom’s Story of Sling use and Baby-Wearing from Mothering


Natural Child Project Website
WHAT IS ATTACHMENT PARENTING?
by Jan Hunt, M. Sc.

Position Paper 1: Controlled Crying
AAIMHI is concerned that the widely practiced technique of controlled crying is not consistent with what infants need for their optimal emotional and psychological health, and may have unintended negative consequences.

RETHINKING
by James J. McKenna, Ph.D.
Mother-infant co-sleeping often accompanies night time breast-feeding. New research suggests that co-sleeping affects infant physiology and patterns of arousal, raising questions about currently accepted norms for "healthy" infant sleep.

SIDS Prevention
Includes information on back, side, and tummy sleeping, breastfeeding, benefits of babywearing, facts, sleep trainers, co-sleeping, and stories.

Science of Mother Love


Tales from the Crib
John Hoffman digs deeper into the Declaration that Baby Cribs breed Social Ills

The Chemistry of Attachment
by Linda F. Palmer, DC
Human babies are born helpless, needing to be entirely cared for and protected. Luckily, they are born with all the necessary tools and "instructions" to attain such care for themselves, and to become a loved and loving part of their family and society. The ingrained neural and hormonal interactions provided for parent and child to assist them in this process are among the most powerful in nature. The hormonal cues are clear and compelling and our instincts can provide us with all the appropriate responses. Without taking great efforts to avoid and ignore such urges, parents will naturally follow the advice of their neurons and hormones, nurturing their babies and maintaining physical closeness with them.

The Greatest Gifts We Can Give Our Children(As seen in Attachment Parenting)
James McKenna, Ph.D., Director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, discusses SIDS and infant sleep patterns, as well as Attachment Parenting.
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Health Articles

Save the Polar Bears, Save the Humans, View the Movie "An Inconveinent Truth" for More Info

Chiropractic Care and Respiratory Distress in Newborn

Diet
Relationship of infant diet to childhood health: seven year follow up of cohort of children in Dundee infant feeding study.(Note: Click on download once new page is opened)

Greener Paths for Plastics
Conventional plastics can pollute the environment and leach harmful chemicals. Here's what you need to know to stay safe.

Another reason not to drink Coca-Cola
By Nick Mathiason
The Observer, 3/19/2006
Critics claim beverage giant's bottling plants are interfering with irrigation in drought-ridden regions.

Toxic Toy Story
By Jackie Hunt Christensen
Issue 90, September/October 1998
Ever wonder what your child's toys are made of? Chances are, if the toys are not wood or metal, they're some kind of plastic. But what kind? Unlike most food containers or packaging, toys generally aren't marked with the triangle of "chasing arrows" and a "1," "2," or "4" in the middle that indicates the plastic type that was used in its manufacture.

Soft PVC Toys, plastic food wrap & some medical devices Dangerously Toxic
Health authorities in several European countries, including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands have recommended a ban on soft PVC toys, such as teething rings and bath toys. The Spanish government requested action by the European Union (EU) in March, 1998. PVC, or polyvinyl chloride (also known as vinyl), is a common plastic that frequently contains toxic additives. Despite its well-publicized goal to "protect children's health," the Clinton administration is lobbying aggressively to avert a European ban on PVC toys.