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RSS FeedsGrandparents may think they know everything - this class will open their eyes
(The Star Food)

 
 

13 august 2019 23:38:10

 
Grandparents may think they know everything - this class will open their eyes
(The Star Food)
 


On a Sunday morning in a bright classroom at Sunnybrook hospital, patient educator Kerry Grier cradles a baby doll against her chest and takes a deep breath before delivering her first blunt lesson.“Advice from grandparents always comes from a good place,” she tells the room full of new and soon-to-be grandparents. “But it isn’t always the best advice.”Grier can get away with saying this because she is one of them: a grandmother of two, mother of five. This isn’t about making anyone feel ashamed of what they did as parents, she assures them.“Let’s just say we did the best we could at the time and give our children the space to do what they are being told is best practice without giving them a hard time about it,” she says. This is Grandparents’ Class, a prenatal workshop developed a few years ago after Grier began noticing a pattern in her conversations with the parents of newborn babies. Sleep deprivation, breastfeeding and recovery from childbirth were among the most difficult hurdles they faced in the early months with a newborn; no surprise there. But there was another more unexpected challenge they often struggled to manage.The problem was grandparents. Or, as Grier puts it, “Badly behaved grandparents.”Grier knew the grandparents meant well, but the excitement of their children having babies was making them engage in all sorts of inappropriate behaviour.They were showing up to the hospital uninvited, expecting to meet their infant grandchild minutes after the birth. They were “surrounding the bed,” trying to hold the baby before he’d even had a chance to latch. They were giving outdated advice — let the baby sleep on her stomach, don’t spoil him with too much attention — and getting their backs up when their daughters and sons explained the modern approach. They were showing up at their children’s homes to “help,” but instead just h ...


 
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