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>I always tell the folks in my classes "your baby doesn't know s/he's
>not a baby gorilla." Babies think they can hang with with their
>gorilla-mommas, feeding non-stop, whenever they want. They don't
>know woman-momma has to
>do-laundry-cook-dinner-answer-e-mail-send-out-out-x-mas-cards. The
>more new mothers can behave like momma-gorillas, the happier the
>baby is. Ever seen an exhausted baby gorilla?
>
>So my wrist bracelets say WWGD?
>
>Eva
I sometimes talk to mothers about their babies really being 'cave
babies' - for most of human existance it has not been possible or
safe to put babies down (in a separate room) to sleep, but babies
don't know things are different in the 21st century.
However, modern-day values have an answer to that. Modern-day values
may accept the baby emerges as a cave baby/gorilla baby...but it's
the parents role to *deliberately* and *consciously* disabuse the
baby of the very idea that he lives in a cave. To fulfill this role,
the parent 'teaches' the baby to sleep alone, and that crying to be
held and cuddled will not get a response. The baby who learns this
quickly is a 'good' baby and his mother is a 'good' mother.
:(
Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK
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