"Baby Matters" by Dr. Linda Palmer

• What has come to be known as “Attachment Parenting” more often develops children who actually become more independent, as well as healthier and more psychologically secure.

• Parents have been encouraged that responding to their baby's pleas for affection and attention would only "spoil" them. Yet, there is no sound research to support any long-term benefits from such detached parenting. In fact, a mountain of studies suggest quite the opposite — that responsive parenting is best.

• Many of the very common problems parents have with babies today stem from the new “modern” parenting practices promoted over the last century — colic, reflux, rashes, diarrhea, constipation, sleeplessness, ADHD, diabetes, obesity, hyperactivity, antisocial behavior — and then continuing into adult problems of high blood pressure, depression, eating disorders, and inability to form strong bonds with a mate.
   
• When affection is withheld from baby, when they’re regularly left to cry alone, when the bonding act of nursing is absent, we end up with far more children with learning and behavior problems.
   
• When the many powerful immune provisions from mother’s milk are withheld, infants suffer twice the number of illnesses, with much more prolonged episodes. Moreover, formula-fed babies suffer twice the infant death rate as exclusively breastfed infants. Read how formula feeding doubles the infant death rate
   
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is greatly reduced when babies are breastfed naturally between two warm bodies throughout the night! SIDS rates for cosleeping, exclusively breastfeeding babies (sleeping supine in safe beds with responsible non-smoking parents) are around 1/5th the rate seen with the standard crib sleeping, formula feeding scenario

What you Feed your Baby Matters. How you Treat your Baby Matters

Parents have the Power to Create and Enjoy Healthier, Happier Children with Brighter Futures.