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...Finally we dashed into his room to comfort him and found that one of his legs had become trapped at a painful angle in a crib railing. Oh, the remorse! We practically flagellated ourselves for our negligence. We reverted to getting up several times a night to comfort our infant Caruso. He is now a senior in high school, where he has won several awards for solo and chorus singing. MARK CANTER Tallahassee...
...shirts of a band only recently excavated. They even had albums by Sebadoh and J Mascis and the Fog, as if the show’s whole point was to further the careers of the two bandmates. The crowd poured in heavily, including some sadistic parent armed with an infant strolling up the backstage ramp. The baby made its presence known later, as looped crying began to thunder out of the amp wall. Opener Sunburned Hand of the Man was taking the stage. As the baby cried on and on, the Boston natives trickled out, until all nine members...
...page, titled "Anatomy of a New Mom" sums up the book's appeal: A mock medical diagram of a baggy-eyed woman nursing a "totally oblivious and blissed-out need machine," it points out all the identifying characteristics of new-mom-hood, like "needs a perm," "wonders 'why,'" "feeds infant but forgets to feed self," "total disconnection from sexuality," and other details not often mention in baby books. Other stories include two different tales of elderly women being exploited by younger Lotharios, the challenges of substitute teaching, and a moment-by-moment recounting of a nightmarish plane ride with...
...SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME In October the American Academy of Pediatrics revised its guidelines for preventing sudden infant death syndrome. Key recommendations include giving babies a pacifier at nap time and bedtime but only when they are between 1 month and 1 year old--after breastfeeding has been firmly established and before dental problems are likely to arise. The academy also advises parents to place babies on their back to sleep, never on their side or front, and to put them to sleep in their crib, not the family bed, where they risk being strangled or suffocated...
Within each school, confessions abound. Hard-core Attachmentites reveal they caved in to the pacifier (recently endorsed by the American Association of Pediatrics as a preventive for SIDS). Ferber followers beg one another's permission to pick up a weeping infant for just five minutes. Even Ferber admits, "Parents have always modified my program, and that's fine." Which makes me feel better about my own cheating (I added white noise and swaddled past the deadline). The truth is, even when parents stick with a program, most of them skip some rules and customize others. Standardized steps may sell books...