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![]() ![]() It is a primary contributor to numerous serious/fatal problems including marital stress, depression, breastfeeding failure, child abuse, SIDS/suffocation, over treatment for acid reflux, maternal smoking and even mom and baby obesity. ![]() Infant irritability – and the parental exhaustion it provokes – is much more than a nuisance. And, 10-20% babies have colic, meaning that they cry for over 3 hrs/day. Newborns cry/fuss an average of 2.5 hours/day. In fact, doctors prescribed sedatives (like Valium) and even opium!! for infant crying until the 1970’s.īut, in recent years, the ancient practice of swaddling has undergone a renaissance as parents search for a way to calm fussy babies…and get more sleep. ![]() Until, in the 1700’s, parents started shunning infant wrapping as unnecessary, overly restrictive and even barbaric.Īs swaddling was phased out, it was replaced by medicinal calming aids. For thousands of years, parents have wrapped infants to carry, soothe and protect them and to promote sleep. Swaddling is one of the world’s oldest baby care traditions. ![]()
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