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Donna Hansen <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 23 Feb 1998 22:37:01 -0800
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Hi all,

DH came leaping downstairs to turn the radio on so I could hear a CBC
radio program "As It Happens" interviewing Dr Michael Commons, the
Harvard researcher who looked at stress levels in babies who were left
to cry or left alone. He was really stressing how it is only in North
American and European countries that babies are "pushed" to sleeping
alone and how they should be held and touched so much more. The
interviewer proposed that surely parents knew it was good to do this,
but was much taken aback when Dr commons suggested that babies should be
in touch with someone all the time, even at night.

The interviewer thought this meant having them perhaps in the same room
but when Dr Commons said, no, in the same bed, well, there was a long
silence while the interviewer picked her jaw up off the floor, and said,
"But won't they get rolled on and squashed?" It was funny and sad, too.

Much emphasis on how babies and kids who have had their needs met are
much more able to deal with life's stresses later on in life.

Donna Hansen
Burnaby, British Columbia, amidst the daffodils and tulips

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