Babies in Prams may Suffer Long-term Emotional Problems - UK Study

.Raising a baby is certainly one of life’s greates challenges - one full trial and errors. It’s bad enough that those little ones can’t talk, well, aside from crying when trying to relay a feedback, but what do new parents do when the error being committed is not really discomforting to the is extent of generating the cry-feedback? The fact that the baby isn’t crying does mean all is well.
Reuters reports a recent research from the UK that shows “children pushed in prams which face away from their parents may suffer long-term emotional and language problems”.

I did a quick mental shuffle: I can count the number of prams with front-facing pram seats because most of the one I’ve seen have the babies backing the pusher, like those in the top left photo.

“The research, believed to be the first of its kind, found that children who were not facing the person that pushed them were less likely to talk, laugh and interact with their parents compared with those babies that did.”

Dr Suzanne Zeedyk, a Developmental Psychologist at Scotland’s Dundee University that carried out the research states:

“Our data suggests that for many babies today, life in a buggy is emotionally impoverished and possibly stressful…stressed babies grow into anxious adults.”

Oh blimey!

May be it’s time to dish the pram and bring out the good old wrapper, and back-wrap the infant, promto! See photos.

Even though, there is no eye contact, but there is still some semblance of intimacy via body contact, heat exchange, etc. Better than having my baby looking at some strangers and growing up a stressed!

African mothers - is it time to dish the prams, strollers, pushchairs, or whatever they are called? Grap the wrappers I say!