New borns have needs of physical contact. They also call it skin hunger...
Mid-80s showed that at an American hospital: incubator babies who were not touched, remained far behind in growth. Babies whose every night have their back caressed, grew normally.
In the womb, babies are constantly touched and rocked. They have a 24 hours a day in contact with the body of their mother. They aren't hungry they don't feel pain. It's just a safe place for the baby.
And then there is the birth and the warm small hole digs for an immense world in which the child is often only sleeps, is in the box, sits in a rocking chair or lying in a stroller.The continuity theory suggests: Proceed with the cradles, touching and caressing. Carry your baby, let him sway you. After a month or 9 your child gives a sign that he wants to see the wide world, and he literally crawls away from you.
New research techniques like brain scans and measuring the stress hormone cortisol in the saliva of infants show how important physical contact is for the development of babies. And then there is not refers to the functional touch while changing and bathing: it means conscious, loving touches.European research shows that babies who average nearly 10 hours per day had physical contact cried 50% less than babies who average had 8.5 hours per day contact.
In a friendly touch the 'cuddle hormone "oxytocin is released. Oxytocin causes we enter into relationships with others. It comes in large concentrations in the brains of mothers during and after childbirth, and ensures that they want continuously hold their baby and take care of them.
I love to carry my baby girl, and comfort her when she cries. But I can carry her for 10 hours.
And what about when I go to work after 3 months?
They don't carry my baby girl for 10 hours in a daycare?
But what I do is be with her when she needs me. Cuddle with her when she cries. Play with her when she is active, talk nice words to her when she's panic.
If she wants to sleep on me then I would let her sleep on me.
I just want to be there for her and show her that she don't need to worry, that the big bad world isn't that bad at all.
source: ouders van nu
