Hallie Bulkin explains why sleep, feeding, and airway problems in newborns are connected, not separate issues. Parents often come in with one complaint but don't realize the underlying causes link back to airway or sleep. Hospital birthing classes rarely teach families about breastfeeding, airway management, and sleep together, leaving them unprepared for the fourth trimester.
Like they rely on us to connect the dots. So when like a family comes to you and you're asking about sleep, even though they came to you for a feeding or a speech concern, and they're like, wait, wait, wait, why are you asking me about that? Like I came because I'm concerned about X. You're like, yes, yes, but it's all connected. And you start educating them, right? And then they start going, oh my gosh, I would've never known. Well, of course you've never known. Like no one's ever taught you that. We can't expect you to know that. And I think it's, you brought that up and it's such a good reminder that like parents don't know what they don't know. They don't know what they haven't been taught. It's not readily available information. It should be part of the hospital required course or whatever courses and information that's being taught. I know our hospital required that we take so many hours of birthing classes or information. Yes. In that was some information about breastfeeding. It was very minimal. It was not enough to help me actually when I needed it. We need to beef that stuff up a bit more and the airway stuff, right? And the feeding and the airway and the sleep, that should all be in there because I think we all walk in with this blissful expectation of what life's going to be like once you that newborn. And not only are you tired in your fourth trimester, but now if you're dealing with issues, you're like, you've entered a whole entire new universe.
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