At 06:38 PM 10/21/2005, Catherine  wrote:
>Those experiments were done by Harry Harlow, with a wire frame "mother" 
>with a nipple, and a cloth "mother" with no milk supply. The infant 
>monkeys went to the wire frame for milk, but hung onto the cloth mother 
>the rest of the time. Harlow wanted to study the importance of touch in 
>infancy in primates...he concluded it was supremely important.

But "AAP babies" won't even have the cloth to cling to in the barren 
expanse of their cribs.

Patricia Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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