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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
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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.
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