Thursday, July 3, 2014

Controversies Surrounding The Babywise Program

By Rosella Campbell


The controversies surrounding previous surveys done on human behavior, draws to the limited information and research that such authors maintained with a diverse specimen. As such are the babywise conclusions asserting that mothers can attain direct control on the sleeping, playing and feeding programs, rather than embracing the infant-influenced schedules. This draws parallel directives to ones outlined by the pediatrics.

Firstly, the professionals advise mothers to breastfeed their newborns during the first hour of the childbirth. They emphasize that this is the optimal time since the baby reveals its eagerness and high levels of alertness. Equally, the mothers are instructed to maintain a time lag of two hours increased to three hours in latter development stages of the baby. To the contrary, the Baby-wise article instructs the mothers to breastfeed their babies immediately after childbirth if possible. In addition, it advocates for a feeding average of two-and-a-half routines.

As part of the postnatal advice, the pediatrics encourage parents to nurse their babies on a twelve-times frequency. This is a platform where Ezzo would differ by advising on a daily nursing cycle split into ten sessions. He further outlines that mothers should regulate the hunger patterns rather than nurse whenever the child has signs of hunger. This would ensure that they conserve a basic feeding routine instead of assuming the schedules determined by the newborn.

Unlike the interpretation accorded to the baby cries as indication for hunger, the baby-wise program poses a blurred standpoint. The article proclaims that crying babies may have varying reasons not necessarily signifying hunger. However, mothers should designate ample time to learn and understand the different cries and the appropriate response for each. This would enable them attain flexible feeding patterns that they would determine when their babies feed.

For many, babies would fall asleep after crying and quickly stop crying on getting tired. They reflect a routine cries ranging to four hours. Although presumed to support this perspective, the parent-directed controls give emphasis to a fifteen minutes crying prior to their sleep. A similar stance arises in identifying and assessing different crying to tell the appropriate action to accord to the crying child.

Ordinarily, pediatrics agrees that newborns reveal little awareness of daytime and nighttime. Although they support that the parents may influence the kids to assume a differentiated playtime and sleep time schedules, Ezzo would belabor this as a realistic role for the mother. This confers the role of influencing the understanding to mothers who would directly allocate and influence the sleeping and playing patterns.

The initial exchanges between the mother and the newborn lay a foundation for parent-child relationship. Although Ezzo would support this perspective, the findings reveal that strong bonding gradually emerges as the mother maintains a close contact with the child. This suggests that healthier parent-child relationships develop through a long term cycle independent of the physical contact right after birth.

The infant care program outlined by Ezzo is criticized of exposing the infant to higher risks of malnutrition and emotional ailments. Secondly, it places the infant not as a defining center but as a welcome addition subjected to existing order of the parents. The program is associated with dehydration, thrive disorders and involuntary weaning.




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