tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938798835343717281.post3323288018239377440..comments2023-07-20T07:20:27.404-05:00Comments on Too Hot to Handle: Sorry, You Don't Get to Do That!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938798835343717281.post-57993698624000600402011-11-17T17:48:00.317-06:002011-11-17T17:48:00.317-06:00So what do I do, head over to my Pleasant Dreams p...So what do I do, head over to my Pleasant Dreams page and continue a discussion after being called 'ridiculous'. Ah well. LOL<br /><br />If you want to be FB friends send me your email at mfd.wife.trina at gmail . com . My FB is hidden with being a teacher. :DAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06206395438184642707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938798835343717281.post-19170928719165270822011-11-17T17:35:11.478-06:002011-11-17T17:35:11.478-06:00I know. I had to stop a discussion on the Pleasan...I know. I had to stop a discussion on the Pleasant Dreams FB page, I can't have Dr. Sears being tossed at me any more. I was looking for solutions. Not lectures. One woman told me to give them literature on Dr. Sears' safe sleep methods. Like the Health department has not tried that. I took a step back because I was losing sleep and people were getting to me with the names and insults. Bottom line, our babies are dying. A cultural change has to come about and if it takes shocking billboards, I am okay with it. It makes me physically ill. I started working with a public health nurse to see what can be done. <br /><br />What everyone needs to realize about third world countries - they often sleep on the floors, so there is no wall for the baby to get smothered when the bed shifts, there are no fluffy comforters or down pillows. That makes a difference.<br /><br />Through this crusade of mine I have met probably 8 or 9 of those co-sleeping mommies who lost babies and have made a 180. Why does it take a tragedy to see what these EXPERTS in the APA have been telling us for years? <br /><br />On a personal level, my grandmother is one of those. "I can't believe any of you survived..."<br /><br />I hope the insults don't burn me out.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06206395438184642707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938798835343717281.post-74201249195452860522011-11-17T16:41:12.524-06:002011-11-17T16:41:12.524-06:00Are we FB friends, Trina? I can't remember.
A...Are we FB friends, Trina? I can't remember.<br /><br />A couple days ago a FB aquaintance of mine posted a slam against the Milwaukee ad campaign.<br /><br />She's alot different kind of mother/person than me and I don't agree with alot she believes in, but usually I just pass her posts on by. I figure they are her kids to raise or ruin as she believes best. <br /><br />But I couldn't even believe the kind of things she believes about co-sleeping. <br />She said,"You've got to be kidding me. I love that they claim they're doing this because their infant mortality rates are higher than many third world countries. Guess where most babies sleep in third world countries? Yep. With their parents. Next to them, snuggled close, so Mom can wake up if something's wrong."<br /><br />People like her feel they are so "worldly" and "enlightened", and I was like, really? She's comparing American mothers to third-world mothers? She's living in some kind of rainbow tinted bubble, I think?<br /><br />I posted that for she reasons she may not be aware of, co-sleeping in America is extremely dangerous. Ask a firefighter. Ask as firefighter's wife, who has to deal with the aftermath of him having to deal with these tragedies. <br /><br />An ER nurse posted right behind me saying basically the same thing. <br /><br />This was her response "Tami and Mel, I can appreciate your perspectives, but more children die of SIDS than of being smothered by a mom while cosleeping"<br /><br />I don't know where she gets her statistics (or whom the findings benefit) but from my own personal knowledge, I think those numbers are skewed. In the 25 years my husbands been in the fire/EMS service, he has ran more accidently smothered babies than he has SIDS babies. <br />It's not a great big number, probably less than a dozen altogether, but that's just our relatively small area. <br />And obviously those statistics aren't correct for Milwaukee. <br /><br />I dropped out of the discussion after that because obviously it was a waste of my time and effort. <br />Isn't it ironic, though, how all these so-called "enlightened" people are really so small- and closed-minded? Everything is black-or-white to them, and the rest of us are ignorant.Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14788311731697231165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938798835343717281.post-40230879161678307302011-11-16T19:03:08.184-06:002011-11-16T19:03:08.184-06:00amen! we have to do whatever it takes to save our ...amen! we have to do whatever it takes to save our babies!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938798835343717281.post-59168323410969619092011-11-16T18:48:59.944-06:002011-11-16T18:48:59.944-06:00Tell it!Tell it!trinitynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938798835343717281.post-59291599061375483412011-11-16T10:25:21.297-06:002011-11-16T10:25:21.297-06:00Sing it, Sister! Amen! I agree completely. And ...Sing it, Sister! Amen! I agree completely. And I pity those who have to judge so strongly. The hubster when to a SIDS baby about a week before ours was born. Here's to saving more babies!Amberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776758658176619884noreply@blogger.com