It's called "Rage of Innocents" by Noah Erenberg. It aired on the Knowledge Network last night. Unfortunately, I only caught the beginning b/c company came and my nasty family forced me to turn off the TV to be "polite". I was so excited I was literally standing in front of the TV shouting "hooray!!".
I saw Meredith Small (of "Our Babies, Our Selves") who said how our society thinks sleeping in isolation and CIO promote independence and self-reliance when there is NO scientific evidence for that, and a wealth of evidence that it's bad. James McKenna talked about his cosleeping research in detail, with videos of cosleeping moms and babes; he was saying how unnatural it was to have babies in cribs then expect them to sleep through the night, etc.
They had a guy who measures stress levels in crying babies who did a study showing that babies who were held for four hours a day instead of two not only cried waaay less, but their bodies actually responded to the stress of crying in less severe ways. Babies left to cry on their own had very strong reactions (high body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, respiration).
The show also followed a "crisis team" of social workers dealing with very troubled teenagers (suicide, domestic violence situations). The premise of the documentary was that our misguided parenting practices (CIO, not holding our babies enough, etc) are contributing to the crisis in emotional health seen in our youth today.
It was totally professional, VERY well done. I don't know if they ended up using the words "attachment parenting" but you could not have a better promotional video for the scientifically proven results of babywearing, bedsharing, etc than this documentary. It was so wonderful!!!! YOu can buy it online (although it is expensive - I'm going to check if my local library can get it).
Here are the links to it:
buy it here
there's a short video clip here
I saw Meredith Small (of "Our Babies, Our Selves") who said how our society thinks sleeping in isolation and CIO promote independence and self-reliance when there is NO scientific evidence for that, and a wealth of evidence that it's bad. James McKenna talked about his cosleeping research in detail, with videos of cosleeping moms and babes; he was saying how unnatural it was to have babies in cribs then expect them to sleep through the night, etc.
They had a guy who measures stress levels in crying babies who did a study showing that babies who were held for four hours a day instead of two not only cried waaay less, but their bodies actually responded to the stress of crying in less severe ways. Babies left to cry on their own had very strong reactions (high body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, respiration).
The show also followed a "crisis team" of social workers dealing with very troubled teenagers (suicide, domestic violence situations). The premise of the documentary was that our misguided parenting practices (CIO, not holding our babies enough, etc) are contributing to the crisis in emotional health seen in our youth today.
It was totally professional, VERY well done. I don't know if they ended up using the words "attachment parenting" but you could not have a better promotional video for the scientifically proven results of babywearing, bedsharing, etc than this documentary. It was so wonderful!!!! YOu can buy it online (although it is expensive - I'm going to check if my local library can get it).
Here are the links to it:
buy it here
there's a short video clip here
