Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site luke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!bene!luke!itkin From: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Colic Message-ID: <281@luke.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 14:44:00 EDT Article-I.D.: luke.281 Posted: Mon Jul 15 14:44:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 20:28:41 EDT References: <1306@cbosgd.UUCP> <1090@ihuxb.UUCP> Reply-To: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List) Organization: Benetics Corp, Mt.View, CA Lines: 17 Summary: In article <1090@ihuxb.UUCP> reza@ihuxb.UUCP (Reza Taheri) writes: >I don't think >that a 3-week old baby knows his/her mother "that much". It is just >that a mother is more relaxed, more loving, and more tolerant of the >baby's crying. This is not so. A mother smells different, feels different, talks different. All of these things are known by the baby. This is well known. A baby can smell the breast milk and other scents on its mother, and be soothed by the presence of the nurturing/feeding parent. It still happens as they get older. -- *** * Steven List @ Benetics Corporation, Mt. View, CA * Just part of the stock at "Uncle Bene's Farm" * {cdp,greipa,idi,oliveb,sun,tolerant}!bene!luke!itkin ***