help get the word out as they are railroading that poor doctor!
Pediatrics, February 1994, Volume 93, Number 2, pp. 254-260
American Academy of Pediatrics
Comparing the heavily exposed and the non-exposed infants, the Brazelton clusters on day 30, showed that the offspring of heavy-marijuana using mothers had significantly higher scores on:
- the Orientation cluster
- the Autonomic Stability cluster
- reflexes
- habituation to auditory and tactile stimuli, and to animate auditory stimuli
- higher degree of alertness
- capacity for consolability
- less irritability
- had fewer startles and tremors
- better physiological stability at one month
- required less examiner facilitation to reach an organized state
- more socially responsive
- the quality of their alertness was higher
- their motor and autonomic systems were more robust
- they had better self-regulation
- they were more rewarding for caregivers than the neonates of nonā??using mothers at one month of age
From the Schools of Nursing, Education and Public Health, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Received for publication Sep. 21, 1992; accepted June 30, 1993.
(please steal this and pass it on as I did - newspaper comment sections are great)
