A few leads for you Liz,

> 1.      Who was it that talked about 'the second nine months of life' -
that a
> child's head would be too large to get out of the womb if they stayed in
> for as long as nature might intent?

Nils Bergman (the Kangaroo Mother Care man) says this. He is thinking also
looking at investigating just what someone else suggested- whether babies
placed on the chest of strangers (in the case of babies being adopted- the
adoptive parents are certainly strangers to the baby)- respond in the same
way as babies with their mothers.

> 2.      Any psychologists out there that can address for me how ANY mental
> health professional could think that a child is unattached to the mother
at
> birth?

There is a lot written about this in relation to adoption. The whole primal
wound thing etc. I don't think there is much that you could describe as
standard research type information but there is certainly evidence that
removal of a child from it's mother is a drastic event.

Karleen Gribble
Australia

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