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"In the experiment, when their babies cried loudly, moms randomly combined four actions -- carrying them on a walk, sitting while holding them, putting them to

"In the experiment, when their babies cried loudly, moms randomly combined four actions -- carrying them on a walk, sitting while holding them, putting them to bed, and rocking them in a stroller -- about every 30 seconds." it's 2022 and they are still doing research with just moms as caregivers?

VBprogrammer 4y ago
Upvote from me. As a dad of a 5 day old (and a 3 1/2 year old) any hints on how I can help sooth baby for even relatively short periods of time would be super helpful. The problem is with a breastfed baby they are very focused on getting their milk supply where it needs to be and if that means feeding practically constantly for hours at a time, that's fine by them.
throwaway847363 4y ago
Oh god, stop. Can you just read about this research without making judgements about social justice please?! Look around you, do you see a lot of moms with babies?
- mnsc 4y ago
  A throwaway troll account, great! But I'll bite. This has nothing to do with social justice but rather bad science due to the _fact_ that they eliminate 50% of the baby's caregivers in the research. What if the science showed that when the baby isn't hungry the baby stops crying sooner if being held close by the dad because the smell of tits leaking milk confuses them? edit: Also, the sample size of just 21 babies gives away that this is bad science so...
  - kleiba 4y ago
    I'm not sure it's a troll account, I could very well imagine that parent is afraid that in the current climate, their opinion could get downvoted to hell. But you could be right.
    - mnsc 4y ago
      Well I said troll because of the trolling behaviour. Using inflammatory/divisive wording about "judgements about social justice" is not constructive to the debate and I am properly downvoted because I fed the troll. It doesn't make it better that acknowledged that I fed the troll.
  - thinkindie 4y ago
    also - none of the suggestions suggest to breastfeed a baby crying if she/he was already fed before. Therefore I don't the argument that this is something that must be done by mothers only.

VBprogrammer 4y ago

Upvote from me. As a dad of a 5 day old (and a 3 1/2 year old) any hints on how I can help sooth baby for even relatively short periods of time would be super helpful. The problem is with a breastfed baby they are very focused on getting their milk supply where it needs to be and if that means feeding practically constantly for hours at a time, that's fine by them.

throwaway847363 4y ago

Oh god, stop. Can you just read about this research without making judgements about social justice please?! Look around you, do you see a lot of moms with babies?

mnsc 4y ago
A throwaway troll account, great! But I'll bite. This has nothing to do with social justice but rather bad science due to the _fact_ that they eliminate 50% of the baby's caregivers in the research. What if the science showed that when the baby isn't hungry the baby stops crying sooner if being held close by the dad because the smell of tits leaking milk confuses them? edit: Also, the sample size of just 21 babies gives away that this is bad science so...
- kleiba 4y ago
  I'm not sure it's a troll account, I could very well imagine that parent is afraid that in the current climate, their opinion could get downvoted to hell. But you could be right.
  - mnsc 4y ago
    Well I said troll because of the trolling behaviour. Using inflammatory/divisive wording about "judgements about social justice" is not constructive to the debate and I am properly downvoted because I fed the troll. It doesn't make it better that acknowledged that I fed the troll.
- thinkindie 4y ago
  also - none of the suggestions suggest to breastfeed a baby crying if she/he was already fed before. Therefore I don't the argument that this is something that must be done by mothers only.