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You can try it. Parents should try what they want and there is a huge amount of "you must do it this way or else" material that just produces unnecessary stress
by UncleMeat 8mo ago
You can try it. Parents should try what they want and there is a huge amount of "you must do it this way or else" material that just produces unnecessary stress.
My observation is that there is limited research showing that this actually works and that the amount of extra effort required to constantly be observing the baby for these cues makes the already extremely difficult task of caring for a baby just more difficult, even if it did work.
- em-bee 8mo agothe amount of extra effort required to constantly be observing the baby [...] makes [...] caring for a baby just more difficult you learn a lot more about your baby than just elimination cues by observing it. i'd argue that that effort is not difficult at all and has a lot of other benefits. see attachment parenting. you are right about "you must do it this way or else" producing unnecessary stress though.
- UncleMeat 8mo agoIt is true that you can learn a lot by observing babies. Observing them constantly so that you don't fail to miss these cues is a bigger task.