http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2807684/Big-Bang-Theory-star-Mayim-Bialik-backs-baby-wearing-theory.html
She’s known to TV fans as neuroscientist Amy in cult US comedy series The Big Bang Theory – but actress Mayim Bialik has a big controversial theory that she espouses in her private life.
The 38-year-old mother of two is a fan of Attachment Parenting, a philosophy that encourages ‘co-sleeping’ and ‘baby wearing’.
Co-sleepers like to share the same bed as their children, while baby wearers carry their offspring in a sling close to their body for most of the day.
Mayim, who has sons aged nine and six, reveals in a new book that she breast-fed them until they were four and two respectively.
She says parenting should be instinctive. ‘Hundreds of thousands of years of evolution have prepared all of us, should we so choose, to be a good parent. The knowledge we need is programmed into our DNA.’
Mayim, who qualified as a neuroscientist in 2008, sets out her guide to parenting in new book Beyond The Sling: A Real Life Guide To Raising Confident, Loving Children The Attachment Parenting Way.
I was always aware these parenting views of letting your baby scream itself to sleep – to force it to ‘settle him/herself’ was cruel and I never went along with this. It lacks empathy and I can tell there are bond issues with mothers who do this.
Interestingly, the abusive church I attended, many choose ‘no empathy’ parenting. Let babies scream themselves to sleep and cry for hours. I got told I was wrong for wanting to soothe my crying baby. They all have issues within their own childhoods, with lack of bonds with their own mothers and poor parenting habits, going on down through the generations. None of them carried their babies in slings etc. Many other abusive behaviours, smacking babies, belting teenagers. All classic no empathy issues. Abuse.
I spent a lot of time cuddling and soothing my boys when they were babies. I didn’t let them scream for long, and had empathy and love for my baby boys.
But, I didn’t fully embrace attachment parenting and they didn’t sleep next to be at night and I regret that now. I also used a pram and not a baby sling when I went out, and I wish I had used a sling, so I could have been closer to my babies, as I fully see the attachment benefits of this.
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