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Please update your billing details here to continue enjoying your subscription. Your subscription will end shortly. Please update your billing details here to continue enjoying your access to the most informative and considered journalism in the UK. Accessibility Links Skip to content. Menu Close. My wife wrote an article about our experiences called Every child can learn to sleep. Are you making these 3 mistakes when putting your baby to rest? Then you'll definitely want to hear this Scientists from the Stanford Sleep Lab recently released an eye-opening report on 3 common mistakes parents make that make it almost impossible for your child to sleep And you're probably guilty of the 1 culprit right now Tuesday, 28 July So what's wrong with Gina Ford anyway?
Gina Who? Her methods involve getting a baby, from birth, used to the routine which she prescribes. Some commentators have likened her approach to animal training. Deviation from her timetable is not allowed as this will give the baby the idea that it is in control of the parents, when in fact the parents should set the rules for the baby. Many of these also admit that they would not introduce routine to a baby under 5 months of age, especially if breastfed. Gina Ford also advocates the use of ' controlled crying ' - leaving a baby to cry for a period, not picking it up which is the parent's natural reaction , and gradually extending the time for which the baby is left alone to cry so that it eventually gets used to, say, not being fed when it is hungry, or going to sleep on its own.
To her credit, she has modified her method over recent years and no longer tells parents to leave the baby to 'cry it out'. This book illustrates how such emotionally distant parenting styles create brain structures and chemical imbalances that leave children prone to rage, aggression, hypertension, violence, depression and addiction in adulthood. Research by Bell and Ainsworth Maternal Responding and Infant Crying, showed that babies who are left to cry actually end up, by the end of their first year, crying more than infants who are attended to.
Research also shows that by tuning in to an infant's needs, not only is the bond between parent and child strengthened, but the baby also learns alternative ways of communicating besides crying, and this stimulates the infant's physical development. Certain experts e. Professor James McKenna , director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame and organisations have expressed concern that her methods may be potentially damaging to the child's emotional development.
There is also evidence that leaving an infant to go to sleep alone increases the chance of sleep apnoea - times where a baby will stop breathing for a period. These methods should not be confused with the more extreme methods advocated Claire Verity.
Gina Ford herself has condemned Claire Verity's methods as tantamount to child abuse! It must be noted that Gina Ford has no children but worked as maternity 'nurse', i. Instead she would have been keen on babies making her as little work as possible.
The same is true of most other 'baby gurus'. On the other hand, Dr William Sears a paediatrician who therefore holds actual qualifications in infant development and his wife, Martha Sears a paediatric nurse, and also therefore qualified in child development - Gina Ford holds no qualifications at all have eight children. They are the writers of the highly recommended ' The Baby Book ' amongst many other publications. The advice is given and it is up to the reader how they apply it. It also has huge amounts of information on all aspects of a child's development from birth to two years old.
Gina Ford often brushes aside the criticism that she is not herself a mother by saying that she has worked closely with or so families and it is her objective view of these that informs her method. Routine Basically the problem with routines is that they ignore the fact that different babies have different needs on different days. By ignoring this fact the parents are never given the chance to learn to 'read' their baby, understand what each different noise and wiggle means, and react to it this includes getting it wrong and looking at your crying baby thinking, "What?!?!
One month old and already the parent and child can't communicate. What is just as sad is that babies are born equipped and ready to tell their parents what they need what babies need and what they want are inarguably the same thing; they have not the experience, brain development or language to formulate wants which are separate from their needs.
By sticking to a routine, parents are teaching their baby that they have no control over their life and no one is going to listen to them. This is called 'learnt helplessness' by psychologists and is associated with Pavlovian conditioning. Children eventually give up trying to be heard and even fail to recognise that they have needs outside of what other people want them to do.
This is what Gina Ford mistakes as contentment, but there is a grave difference between being contented with what is given and having given up asking for what is needed. Clearly there are emotional repercussions as these factors come into play. Imagine if you were told you would be given a routine for when you went to the toilet NB given, not asked to suggest.
When you did number ones and when you did number twos would be decided by someone else according to their routine, and you would be forced to stick to it.
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