Читать книгу The Fussy Baby Book: Parenting your high-need child from birth to five - Martha Sears - Страница 45

High-need babies crave touch: skin-to-skin contact in your arms, at your breasts, in your bed. They extract whatever physical contact they can from their caregivers. They also crave motion. Holding is not enough; the holder must keep moving. If the holder wants to sit down, it had better be on something that rocks, glides, or swings. This constant holding may be particularly difficult for new parents who expected to have the magazine-model baby, the one who lies quietly in the cot gazing at fancy mobiles. This is not the play profile of the high-need baby. Parents’ arms and bodies are his cot; mother’s breasts are his pacifier; and a bouncing lap is his chair. Most high-need babies choose to upgrade their accommodations from the cot or playpen to the baby sling. They like to be worn many hours a day because they like the physical contact and they like to be up where the action is. Smart babies.