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| Source: kangaroomothercare.com via Uppsala Academic Hospital, Sweden |
For the last couple of decades my Christmas sentiments have centred mainly around peace.
Along with social justice, it is also the bottom-line motivation of my work as a lactation consultant.
I believe a peaceful world begins with peaceful people.
I believe one of the most effective ways to optimise our chances of creating peaceful people begins with the relationship between mothers & their newborns.
I believe such relationships are most easily achieved by utilising, when possible, the normal biology of birth & infant-feeding.
This is in no way a judgement call re 'good/not-so-good' mothering & all that nonsense. It's about striving to learn as much as we can for future mothers & newborns.
INFANT SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE & BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
To better explain, I encourage you to view the video clips below by Dr Nils Bergman, best known for his work & research in Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), who describes what I have written above as "...creating an attachment environment...that "...optimises the trajectory..." in terms of brain development & social/emotional competence.
Bye for now & wishing you peace.
Julieanne
PS: I am affiliated with an ebook by Aussies Tony & Nyrie Roos called The Miracle of Kangaroo Mother Care. Lots of good info plus bonuses - you can check it out here.
PSS: Please ignore this - it's just to prove to Technorati that I'm the author of this blog. (Technorati blog directory verification ID: JHKUAP9GE2HP)
VIDEOS (11 minutes in total)
What We Can Learn from Horses (3 min)
The Social & Emotional Intelligence of Infants (3 min)
Skin-to-Skin Contact (5 mins)
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