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From: karl@osu-eddie.UUCP (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: books for future siblings, and 2-year-old hospital visits?
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Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 09:17:22 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  3 09:17:22 1985
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> > Another issue I have yet to decide:  should a 2 year old come to
> > visit mom in the hospital?
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> Yes.  Starting in the delivery room.
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This seems to me to be  an  astoundingly  bad  idea. Perhaps it works out OK
sometimes, but I keep thinking about a little 2- or 3-year-old watching  his
mother going through major pain, and then discovering that it was all caused
by  his new brother or sister. It seems to me that this sort of thing  would
cause a lot of emotional stress  to  the  child.  Think of the resentment it
might cause against the new sibling, because "you hurt Mommy!"
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