Dr Pamela Douglas | Public figure
Dr Pamela Douglas
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25.01.2022 Jane McCredie quotes an article of mine in a thoughtful piece 'EBM Scrutiny' she's written for her Insight column in the Medical Journal of Australia this past week https://www.mja.com.au/insi//37/jane-mccredie-ebm-scrutiny. The article Jane quotes to is called 'The rise and fall of infant reflux'. It discusses the evolution of evidence-based medicine and the urgent need for research funders to value methodologies that more accurately make sense of complex problems in primary care (like unsettled infant behaviour!). It can be read on my new website on the Publications - Scientific page (go down to the 14th article, published 2012 and 2011). http://www.pameladouglas.com.au/content/scientific
21.01.2022 Intro to the Possums Sleep Film
09.01.2022 Knowing a little history is important if we are to understand why so much confusing and conflicting advice is offered to us when we become new parents. I've put up Part 1 (Introduction) of An Intimate History of Mother-Baby Care in the English-speaking World on my personal website blog. In this 5-part series I'm aiming to offer an historical perspective on the distressing state of confusion that we can find ourselves in once the baby is born. (They are adapted from Appendix 1 at the end of The Discontented Little Baby Book.) http://www.pameladouglas.com.au/blog
07.01.2022 It’s extremely difficult when you receive conflicting advice about care of your baby from trusted health professionals. In the end, parents make careful decisions according to the best information and recommendations available to them at time, and this includes decisions about whether or not to proceed with a frenotomy or frenectomy. In our clinic www.possumsonline.com the parents we see have made diverse decisions throughout their parenting journey to date (and sometimes ha...ve found themselves in unexpected circumstances when things went quite differently to the way they’d planned). We respect every single decision that you have made. Actually, everyone is doing their best parents, and health providers. We then work to address the issues you currently face in a way that is deeply non-judgmental we really do understand how difficult it is when there is so much confusing information. Our job is to support you as you find your way forward concerning your own unique baby in your own unique circumstances. However, because I am committed to making a difference for families with new babies, I feel I need to speak out at times and open up some difficult topics with my fellow health professionals. This isn’t easy, because we all care so much. For example, there are tough questions to be asked about some of the popular approaches to infant sleep, which can make life so much more difficult than it needs to be when families have a young baby (See High level evidence does not support first wave behavioural approaches to parent-baby sleep http://www.pameladouglas.com.au///Douglas%202016%20SMR.pdf), and there are also tough questions to be asked about the current trend to deep cuts with laser and scissors under our babies’ tongues and upper lips. If you are interested in a deeper analysis of the tongue-tie controversy, please read Do our babies need deep cuts under their tongues and upper lips in order to breastfeed successfully? An essay http://goo.gl/yva30S. My recent blog gives an overview of this in-depth exploration. Or, if your baby has been referred for frenectomy, you could come and see us at Possums (we’ll do our best to see you either the same day or the next). We will offer an assessment and opinion, and also, if you choose, our gestalt breastfeeding intervention; you can nevertheless proceed to frenectomies at any time. See more
