I wanted to update the midwife childbirth post again with something else I was reminded of:  doctors telling mothers not to hold their babies when they continued to cry if they had been fed and changed.  I was told to “just let them cry” if they continued to cry after being fed and burped and changed.  Incredibly, mothers were told they were going to spoil their children if they “gave in” (look at that wording to know the mindset) to a crying child.

Looking back with the grandmother’s eye, I see how cruel this is and the destroying nurturing mindset.    Nurturing = God, the Creator.  Coldness = satan.

I also would not worry about thumb-sucking.  There is such attention to this as if it were a character flaw, when it is just to comfort one.  I cringe at putting a plastic binky in my child’s mouth instead of letting them do what God had designed — a self-nurturing act.  They tried to tell us that it led to teeth being maladjusted. That theory has been debunked.