Kathy- you talked about babies in Mali who don't crawl and are carried
upright.  My babies, as US Americans, havent' liked that.  they love being
carried but reach a point where they really want to get down- my oldest did
that at 7 mos while we were in Italy, which the Italians hated.  I think
they wanted to see her in a stroller.  :-O

so you have non-crawling content babies elsewhere, but who is giving my
babies the message that they should be different?  Even my little boy at 4
mos wants to lie on my lap to nap and not in a carrier so I can do something
other than sit!  Or do you suppose we are responding to cues differently
than mothers in other cultures?

these arent' facetious questions- I really want to hear your thoughts on
this.

Kate

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