Rachel,
at the VSLS (IBCLC - Associazione Consulenti per l'Allattamento in Alto
Adige) conference taken on sept 25 in Bolzano (Italy), dr. Karin
Grossmann, a psychologist from the Institute of Psychology in Regensburg
(Germany), gave a speech on "How we learn how to love". Unfortunately no
literature was released because of the association's policy ( your
question could help for giving me a good reason to ask her some written
material), but in my notes I read specifically: "...all newborns are
hungry for interaction, and need answers to know for sure whether they can
survive. If they don't get them, they know they are unwanted and react
with fear and depression; crying and screaming is NOT biological, it
doesn't mean accusing but only despair" I liked very much this *non
biological* thing, as we all know that in many cultures infants and
children  simply don't cry. She then continues "...if (their) mothers
respond quickly, the infants stop crying sooner. During the second
semester of life the mothers learn how to recognize the several kinds of
cry. ... The infants capitalize a *Love* charge account they can count on;
the larger it is, the larger their possibilities of coping with life
difficulties are".
As much as these are not hard data, i.e. data not substantiated by
quantitative research etc, the same we could state of the normalcy of
crying 90 minutes a day.
warmly
silia armeni (pediatrician, IBCLC, Rome, Italy)

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