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The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Toddler on the Block
Once Upon a Time: How Parents Have Used the
Side/Stomach Position in Other Times and Cultures Among the Inuit (Alaskan natives), a very deep hood is used as a baby bag and serves as an extension of the womb. The newborn lives in a heated climate, completely buried inside the mother’s clothing, and curled up like a half-moon. Béatrice Fontanel and Claire d’Harcourt, Babies Celebrated In most traditional cultures around the world, babies hang out— literally. Their mothers, sisters, aunts, and neighbors carry them in baskets and sheets on their fronts, backs, hips, and shoulders for up to twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Few parents across the globe place their infants on their backs, but when they do, they usually put them on a curved surface, not a flat one. The arc of a small blanket suspended from a tree or tripod puts a baby back into the familiar and reassuring rounded fetal position, which allows him to sleep more restfully. The Lapp people of Greenland carry their babies curled up in cradles that hang on one side of a reindeer (counterbalanced on the animal’s other side by a heavy sack of flour). The !Kung San people of the Kalahari Desert carry their infants in leather slings all day long. They keep them in a semi-sitting position, because they believe that posture encourages a baby’s development. In parts of Indonesia, loving mothers never let their babies stretch out completely; in their culture that is the feared position of the dead. Infants are compactly bundled in a seated position and suspended from the ceiling to sleep like little floating Buddhas. (Even new mothers must sleep sitting up for forty days after the delivery to evade evil spirits who are attracted to people weakened by illness or injury.) The Efé tribe of pygmies in Zaire hate putting their babies down—even for a moment. They keep their tiny tots happy by holding them upright or curled up in their arms all day long, and even while they are sleeping. However, since it’s such a big effort for one person to do all this carrying, the Efé believe in teamwork. For the first several months, tribal members pass newborns back and forth among up to twenty people, an average of eight times an hour! Even when women in different cultures take their infants out of their arms, they hang them over their laps or chests, which allows their babies’ soft tummies to remain in constant contact with their mother’s warm, comforting skin. Download 6.18 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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