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Sleep

The Role of Physical Contact in Falling Asleep

Physical contact in the settling process is the subject of much parenting advice, most of it focused on whether it will create a "problem." This frami...

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Play

Touch-Based Games to Support Infant Development

Touch is the first sense to develop in utero (around 8 weeks) and the most fully wired at birth. For an infant, the skin is doing what the eyes will o...

7 min read

Emotions

The Role of Physical Contact in an Infant's Emotional Development

"Are you spoiling her by holding her so much?" New parents hear this from well-meaning relatives and absorb the worry. Developmental science is unusua...

3 min read

Emotions

How Emotional Bonding Between Mother and Newborn Develops

The "magical bonding moment" at birth is one of the most damaging stories told to new mothers. About a third of women describe their first feeling tow...

5 min read

Care

Kangaroo Care for Premature and Sick Newborns

The first sight of a baby in the neonatal unit — fingers thinner than a parent's wedding ring, lines and leads everywhere, an incubator humming — can...

7 min read

Parenting

Baby Massage: Benefits, Technique, and Evidence

Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb and stays the most important channel of communication between you and your baby in the first months. M...

5 min read