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Four-Month-Old Babies
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No longer get blue hands and feet unless cold.
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Rarely hiccup, never tremor, and breathing is smooth and regular.

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Much better at controlling body movements. Can roll over, spin
around, and lift head high off the mattress.
Out with the New, In with the Old: Rediscovering the
Stone Age Wisdom of Imitating the Fourth Trimester
Do you remember how in Star Wars Luke Skywalker achieved victory
by using the long forgotten powers of the Force? Well, over the last fifty
years, our society has also advanced by returning to ancient wisdom
such as getting more exercise, protecting the environment, and eating
food grown with less pesticides. Technology is a blessing, but today we
are relearning the value of living in harmony with nature; it’s just
common sense!
That’s why there’s logic in examining the past to understand ourselves
better. Although our clothes and music are contemporary, our biology is
clearly prehistoric, and that’s especially true for babies.
In the diagram above, we occupy the tiny bottom right corner, the
technological age of man. Yet our babies are far from high-tech. In most
respects, they haven’t changed a hair in the past thirty thousand years!

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That’s why, although most of us would never survive if suddenly sent
back to the Stone Age, our infants would feel right at home. Babies
expect to be born into a cave family, and they expect us to be as
experienced at handling them as our Stone Age cousins were.
Unfortunately, most of us are a little rusty—if not completely in the dark
—when it comes to those prehistoric parenting tips. What valuable baby-
care tricks could you learn if an experienced cave mother lived next door
to you?
While we can’t go back in time, we can get an idea of some calming
techniques cave moms might have used by looking through a virtual
“window” to the past, the study of primitive tribes living around the
world today.
Please don’t be fooled by the word primitive. Although it conjures up
images of backward people, over the past eighty years research has
shown that many so-called primitive peoples possess wisdom of the
natural world about which we are ignorant. Some know the medicinal
power of rare plants, some know how to find water in the desert—and
some even know how to prevent colic!